jazzdude
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| Preamp Deal of the Century found out last week that the tj101d has a ux-4 base, like the 300b. the we101d has a uv-4 base. the two bases do not fit the same socket. so right now, there is no way we101d will play in Mick's cabernet/grange. something to consider.yamamoto make... | |
| Anyone compared new Shunyata cords with old? i just replaced a pair of taipans with taipan alphas on my preamp and poweramp. the bleached midrange is gone, the colors are back. in particular the cymbals have real-to-life shimmer. something i have never heard in my system before. is it a wort... | |
| Thiel replacements For people who find Thiels to be too much, I recommend a good tube preamp and either MIT or Transparent cables. | |
| Thiel replacements I have thiels also. My experience has been similar to tombowlus and basement's. Every upgrade to my system has resulted in enhanced imaging and soundstage. They included DAC, interconnects, power conditioning, tube preamp, and power amp. Currently... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Amandarae - patience... I think it took over 6 weeks for me to get my Cabernet after Mick started building it. He started building it in the middle of January and I got it on March 8. | |
| Nora Jones new CD -- Copy Protection -- YIKES I ripped this CD with EAC and a Plextor Plexwriter Premium. I didn't have any problems at all. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century both of my preamps shipped with the plastic remote. wonder if anyone has tried to integrate the supratek preamps into one of those high-dollar universal remote jobs. | |
| Tube upgrade/rolling question Western Electric made the best 300B's. 300B tubes are still being produced on the old Kansas City production line by Westrex and licensed under the Western Electric name. The new WE production tubes are expensive, maybe more so than NOS tubes. I w... | |
| PC Software converts 16/44 to 24/96 format My guess is that it will attempt to lower the noise floor and increase the dynamic range while at the same time interpolating the data in the upsampling process. I do not expect it to sound like DVD-Audio. The app does not require a soundcard. It ... | |
| Audiomeca Enkianthus.X DAC...Anagram mkII What about the supposed "softness" or reduced dynamics of the Enkianthus/Mephisto that gets remarked upon sometimes? Is this trait real? Is the issue resolved with the Anagram MKII? How much does it affect the character of the sound? | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century I just got my preamp last week and I ordered it the middle of November. | |
| Audiophile Archive: Digitizing Reel to Reel Tapes If you go the CD-Recorder route be sure to get a pro-audio CD-Recorder since it allows you the flexibility of using any CDR media. Hi-Fi CD-Recorders can only use music CDR's which cost significantly more and don't sound any better. | |
| Amp for Thiel 2.3s. Anyone use Classe with them? Brent, I have the same speaker and amp. If additional warmth is what you want and if you are concerned with brightness then I would recommend a tube preamp. With that you could roll the tubes to tweak the sound even further to your liking. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century I got my cabernet yesterday. Mick shipped on the 4th and I got it on the 8th, so that was pretty fast delivery. Let me tell you just a bit about the cabernet. It is the linestage only version of the grange. The normal tube compliment is 6j5, 101D,... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Artar1 - "The Supratek is no less accomplished in presenting musical truth, but does so with greater sophistication and less austerity." Probably a very astute conclusion. Especially considering you haven't had the benefit of an audition. Tube-rol... |