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| price of WireWord ECLIPSE III DISCRETE BIWIRE wireworld today makes very well built (if rather high priced) cablesthey have a terrific record for quality and good sound stemming back from their start some 20 years ago - to me, their higher value cables are excellentas many successful cable ma... | |
| Jazz Fans-- Name some of your favorite, less well known recordings good thread :) | |
| Tube Amplifier Sound Characteristics a lot of the main points have been covered here already in the responses to the op’s posti would add the following...-- top tube and ss amps converging does not mean they are fully converged to sound the same-- audio research, for the last 15-20 y... | |
| who makes your fav cable loom in 2021? adding onto @ghdprentice's pointstart with some basic, low cost, quality cabling and move from thereblue jeanscanarebeldenmogamimonopriceaudio envy | |
| If there’s an audiophile exit ramp, this ain’t it… @pmiller115 I have almost always maintained that once you reach whatever you consider as perfection and have no interest in moving forward, it is no longer a hobby. Whatever it is becomes a possession that you use but no longer strive to work with... | |
| GaN Amp & Speaker Popping Sound At Power On appreciate that makers/principals like ralph and alberto are speaking up here to clarify the issue -- always helpful on a board where those without proper knowledge are quite apt to post incorrect and misleading info | |
| What comes after Harbeth 30.1s? just another data point, i had heard pmc speakers (modern looking floorstanders, 3 ways) model 526 i think it was, on a trip to london a few years backthey were driven by sugden solid state class a amplification, and my impression was that these s... | |
| What are we going to do about Tele 12AU7 prices Manufacturers also must consider consistency across their desired product run. For knstance, Audio Note may desire to produce 1,000 units of the XYZ integrated over a 10 year period. Maybe it has 4 XYZ tubes inside so they must stockpile or have a... | |
| Air Tight ATC-5 preamp goodvery good | |
| What are we going to do about Tele 12AU7 prices how various makes of tubes sound -- au7 ax7 6dj8 6sn7 and so on -- depends on the circuit/application, the condition of the tubetypically real german tele’s and siemens have a more spotlit character, at the expense of bass fullness - tungsrams fro... | |
| What are we going to do about Tele 12AU7 prices plenty of good sounding quiet au7’s out there still, at fairly reasonable prices ... | |
| What comes after Harbeth 30.1s? spendor definitely overshot the mark with original d series, tweeters were simply too hot, and thus the .2 versions came to market soon thereafter... i have not heard the 7.2 nor 9.2 as yet, trust they are dialed down some to regain a more typical... | |
| AR VT80SE compated to Ref 75SE amp discussion @cleeds thanks for the add’l info - for years the arc’s entry level amps were run single ended, and the reference series ran balanced... this may have changed in the case of the more recent linesi’m happy to be corrected re the balanced differenti... | |
| AR VT80SE compated to Ref 75SE amp discussion @jimbones https://audioresearch.com/product/vt80se/no, the vt80se doesn’t have balanced topology - they just give you one set of xlr inputs for convenience if you only have a balanced source, but the circuitry is not balanced - read the descriptio... | |
| Owning the speakers you dreamed of 20 years ago over the past year, despite having a couple enduring faves on hand for many years (the spendor sp1/2e as well as the harbeth shl5+) i went out and found nice condition pairs of the spendor bc1 as well as the original sp1, just to compare and contr... |