jjss49
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| Constant noisy tubes maybe go solid state? @tvad That said, I have tried most of the available new production tubes from JJ, Shuguang, etc, as well as dozens and dozens of premium vintage NOS tubes.Without question, JJ have been the poorest sounding tubes in all my components. There isn’t ... | |
| smaller speakers for critical listening? @northman you don't want your head up against the back wall, obviouslya couple feet clearance minimum would be besttry some soft heavy cloth wall hangings to absorb... | |
| Cable Between Node 2i and Chord Qutest? You can't go USB out of a Node far as I know.this is correctcullen cable makes excellent digital cables for reasonable cost - suggest you get a 1.5 m length oneno affiliation, just a happy customer | |
| Constant noisy tubes maybe go solid state? the odyssey’s are very high input sensitivity -- makes for the need for super quiet tubes if feeding it with a tube pre (or tubes that wouldn’t sound noisy with another amp seem noisy going into it) - klaus’s amps are very nice sounding but they a... | |
| Who are your three favorite female singers? shakirajennifer lopezbeyonce knowlesoh wait... wrong thread, i thought this was for the three favorite female singers with big backsides... sorry :) | |
| smaller speakers for critical listening? i would say this thread has covered the waterfront at this point hehehethe op is either totally pleased with the 477 suggestions for stand mounts ... or completely confusedanyhow, op... good luck on your musical pursuits!! | |
| Speaker Cable Termination Opinions - Bananas or Spades spades marginally betterdepends on the connection posts on speaker and ampbare wire also good, for the right kind of wire | |
| adding a DAC/Streamer or what can't say i have tried any 10k dacs but i would say there must be rapidly diminishing returns over 3-4-5 grandmaybe i am wrong - no doubt owners of 10k dacs will say so :) | |
| Digital cables what lengths did you try?you also need to say what gear you did the cable trials with... some equipment may not be good enough to yield noticeable SQ differences due to digital cable connection... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? sara jane morriscompared to whattidal | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC I have an MHDT Orchid Dac and had a Border Patrol Dac on loan which I didn’t feel was as good. The Orchid is a very nice Dac and LTA is offering a 600.00 Mod for it shortly. The MHDT Dacs - Border Patrol among others are Chip Based R2R Dacs as opp... | |
| Telefunken vacuum tube E88CC-TK; NOS versus brand new. @orpheus10 mostly scarcitythere are old stock tubes that deliver all or most of the magic of some of the ’famous’ ones - for say half the money or less, all about supply and demandwitness 12ax7 vs 12au7, or german telefunkens vs hungarian tungsrams | |
| What Cables to Use on Hegel H200-H300 Integrated i use copper cables, nothing fancycanare 4 wire speaker cable, basic audioquest and wireworld straightwire interconnects - no silverhegel sonic balance is just right for me, not need to alterhave h160 h390/h20 in 2 separate systems | |
| Does speaker-level input to sub by pass its electronics? no | |
| Anyone prefer EL34 over 300B? i think you are headed in a good direction chinooki think a 300b amp will have a hard time with controlling the bass drivers of your tektons, unless you have a small room and or listen at low volumesblack plate rca’s will be smooth... clear top si... |