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| Preamp Deal of the Century Tube Rolling Update: The replacement set of NOS tubes arrived last friday. After about 20 minutes of listening with the stock tubes (at a set volume level) I decided to go ahead and replace all the tubes all at once just to be sure all the tubes a... | |
| Looking for new genres... Here is something you may find new and hopefully interesting. This is the kind of stuff I tend to listen to as well as flamenco and other world beat genres. I find this quite wonderful. The CD title is "Khrishna Lila" by "DJ Cheb i Sabba". The sou... | |
| Thank You, to the Person Who Helped You the Most. Satch - my feelings exactly. Oh and in addition, we owe our collective thanks to the gods of the Internet for making it possible for communities such as this to exist and thus making our day-jobs more bearable ha ha! | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Swampwalker: The toggle switch on your right as you face the unit should be set such that its pulled towards yourself. I had the same problem when I first got my unit back in 08/2003. Hope its the same issue with yours. All the best... | |
| Free Tweak...does it work for you?? Hey Mijknarf: forget about the socks, just stick a Mullard 12AX7 NOS tube in your left ear n see if there is any audible difference...ha! ha! sorry, please don't mind me... | |
| Review: Scott-Nixon Tube DAC, upgrade parts DA converter Thanks for your review. Wondering if anyone here had the opportunity to compare Scott-Nixion to Channel Island VDA-1 DAC. The VDA-1 is another very samll, inexpensive and well regarded unit, or at least according some postings at A'gon. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Bwhite: Thanks very much that is really good advice except, you're a few hours late - I already placed my order for a complete replacement set (used NOS tubes) this afternoon. But I'm sure these will out shine the stock tubes no matter what. My pi... | |
| Source or Amp in audio link? $2K being the budget, I'd go for a 1:3 expenditure ratio (cd vs. amp) approximately. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Hi everyone: Any opinions on Vacuumtubes.com as a retailer? Also, would you recommend buying new NOS tubes as opposed to used ones at 50% discount labeled as (used but tested good). For example, a NOS Mullard standard-base 5AR4/GZ34 is listed for ... | |
| Suggestions, please... Checkout BBC on the web. It is one of the best free web resource you'll ever come across. It is like getting a free classical music appreciation course taught by some of the best in the biz. Their achieve runs from Bach to Walton and everything in... | |
| In Heavy Rotation? Album Titles - Artist1. Bajofondo Tangoclub - Juan Campodonico2. Making Music - Zakir Hussain3. Hotel Costes (4,5 & 6) - Stephane Pompougnac4. Uncommon Ritual - Edgar Meyer, Bela Fleck, Mike Marshall5. Mucho corazon - Martirio6. Astor Piazzoll... | |
| Tube Preamps with Bass? I 2nd Lugnut's response. I use my supratek with an Air-Tight ATM-2 tube amp - I get all the bass response I'll ever need. Alternatively, you could give HOVLAND a try. | |
| Advise requested on cleaning the laser in a CDP Actully I have the same question - how to care for a CDP. I hope you don't mind me riding on your thread. Mine is a Copland CDA 289 HDCD player. I've had it a little over two years and just lately I've experiencing skips or repeats on CDs which pl... | |
| New York City,,,,hello Hello NYC A'goners - know of a cost effective place to buy packaging material (boxes, bubble wrap & the like) in the city? I need to pack up an old McIntosh preamp for overseas shipment. I find "Mail Boxes etc" too pricey. | |
| PC to DAC to PreAmp I've been wanting to play all the cool web radio stations I've been listening to at work (using just a $25 sony earphones hooked to the soundcard of a standard issue corporate Compaq PC) through my fancy 2-Ch stereo at home. After reading this thr... |