jbrrp1
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| What’s your favorite ECC 85/6AQ8 Tube? I tried a pile of 6AQ8's in my EAR 890 amp, and I liked the Amperex best, but I have at least 6 different varieties. I know longer own the amp, so I really should sell off some tubes..... (Got a bunch of 12AX7's, Ei KT-90's, and others. I shou... | |
| What’s wrong with Diana Krall? As much as I love the nuances in Miles and Evans, I hear no reasonable parallel with DK, I'm afraid. If she weren't easy on the eyes I suspect we would not have heard of her. | |
| Where do cables upgrades have the most impact? In my evolving system for the last 10 years I have found the power cord to have easily the greatest impact (this after a conditioner [Shunyata Hydra,Audience RPT6, Audiodharma Powerwing, etc.] or after my current regenerator [PS Audio P10]), follo... | |
| Clean Power without the drawbacks of Conditioning Filtering. Advice? You might look at the PS Audio P-20 regenerator. Plenty of power out of it, and seems to be a lot of happy users so far. I use a pair of P-10's happily now, and will likely switch to the P-20 this winter. They allow 30 day trials. | |
| $10k Speaker Cables?????????????? @ stevecham: Your math is incorrect. If I sell something for $1.00 and make $.10 profit, my margin is 10%. Pretty hard to achieve more than a 100% margin (and we all give 110% here at my company, too!). Your comment smacks of indulging in hype... | |
| Amps under $5500 new or used A VAC Phi 200 is an excellent recommendation to match with the Vandersteen sound. I used one to very good effect when I was running Quatro's. You might also consider a used PS Audio BHK 250 stereo amp, which is a great sounding, musical hybrid. | |
| Micro Acoustics 2002e Wow! Blast from the past, as I bought two of those in succession back in the late 70's and early 80's. It's a lovely cartridge. The piezoelectric driver sounded great in my system back them (before I caught the high end bug). I'd like to try on... | |
| Have opportunity to buy BHK 300's or Pass Labs 250.8 for my Thiel 3.7's- thoughts?? Wish I could comment on the Pass Labs gear, as it certainly enjoys a great reputation, but, alas, I have never had it in my system (well, an Aleph 0 back in the 90's!). I can vouch for the PS Audio BHK 300 mono's, which I have been using for ~2 y... | |
| New power cord needed for speaker with powered subwoofer? I use two PS Audio P10 regenerators for my system, and this past year I upgraded my system's sound purely with changes in aftermarket power cords. Yep, even with a really good regenerator between the wall and the equipment I found the improvement... | |
| Did you ever mismatch equipment ? Elizabeth, I'm not so sure that fixing the Counterpoint yet again wouldn't also have been a mistake! I owned a 5.1 for several years and just tired of the exploding capacitors and quickly dying tubes. It did sound nice, though..... | |
| New power cord needed for speaker with powered subwoofer? Yep. Like Nonoise above, every single component I have tried has been improved with the use of a suitable aftermarket power cord. Not subtly, either.My experience with Vandersteen Quatro's was that some Elrod Statements feeding their built in su... | |
| Audible Illusions or PS Audio BHK preamp I use the BHK preamp with the BHK 300 monos, for ~2 years now, and they are unfailingly musical in my system/experience. I've stopped thinking about other possibilities in these system positions. (Now, if my speakers would allow for a good SET t... | |
| A song murdered by someone. This thread reminded me of a favorite cover for reasons of self-satire: Julie London singing "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" - - she makes it positively pornographic with her lingering diction. (Not that the original was any kind of "classic" that makes t... | |
| Electric Ladyland 50 Year Anniversary Reissues @wcfeil That's a really good first stoned song! Reminded me of mine: first time stoned and first time hearing the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by this group called Pink Floyd. It was a positive experience, and it has encouraged repeated appli... | |
| HAVE ALL SALES STOPPED ON AUDIOGON ??? Could be that they are positioning their goods in anticipation of offers and a compromise that gets them to the same end game? |