john_l
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| Help learn diff.between SS and Tube How to tell ? Well in general, if sounds good it's a tube amp, otherwise it's probably a solid state amp. Just kidding ( a little ) . Tube amps have a certain liveness to the sound, a little more 'thereness', like the performer is in your room. To... | |
| Vinyl or wait for the new stuff?? And another from 'rainy' Oregon. Our votes almost counted this year ! I agree with david99 that you don't have to spend really big bucks to get good sound on vinyl. I bought my mint condition rega 25 w/super elys from a local dealer for $850. Th... | |
| Do Dealers think it is sinful.......... Hey Nostroke. So sorry.Do you work for the CES ? The waltz part really hurt. I was referring to an entire system for 5K. My Vandersteen price came from a local used high end dealer who has been in audio for 20 years or so. I'm a good customer to t... | |
| EL34: Svetlana or Ei? Has anyone heard the svetlana 'mullard copy' el34 ? Just curious. By the way, Svetlanas main website has some great information on their tube's characteristics. | |
| Do Dealers think it is sinful.......... #1 sounds like our local Portland, Oregon Vandersteen dealer. Are you listening Richard V. ? My bad experience with this dealer when I was a serious 'new' buyer of Vandersteen 3a Signatures made me decide I would just buy/try on the internet. I am... | |
| Wrong direction? I found the same volume and anemia related experience with my 750. I do feel that it's active mode is more class A than b- or C+. Using Virgos and Pass Amps, I A/B'd with my $4000 active Pass Preamp, and it has '95%' of the sound quality in passiv... | |
| Best Solid State Amp For 10k Or Less I have the same setup as subaruguru. Dead dead quiet with no distortion, dimensionally accurate soundstage, and an incredibly detailed midrange. You hear singer's every breath, and things like people brushing their hair back or brushing against an... | |
| Audio research LS25 any opinions Dem or anyone else, Did you ever compare the vt100 mark II using a great solid state preamp verses a tube preamp ? I have the pass labs aleph P which is as quiet as a passive preamp. For my phono stage I have an ARC ph3. I notice I get a wonderful... | |
| The best Cdp that have volume control When I originally made the determination that the sony's variable out was superior, I had a set of sonic frontiers kt99 tube amps and an adcom gfp-750 and different cables. The sony's direct out was immediatly noticable as better. This may have be... | |
| Resolution Audio CD55 Mr. Muse. I add my two cents on Gary at Audio Gallery in Lake Oswego. After a bad experience with Gary and his stuck up, A-Train, "I'm better than you" pencil-boy attitude, I decided to stop buying new equipment from retail dealers. I'll Burn in H... | |
| HELP!!! SPEAKER CABLE??? I've found the nordosts to be very detailed but a little thin. Great for resolution/transparency oriented systems with tube or ultra-clean solid state. I don't know if their thinner, ultra detailed sound might make your system too bright with a so... | |
| Sony S7700 vs. Pioneer Elite DV-37 I own the 7700 and I'm pretty happy with it. Well made, works well with my s-link enabled sony tv, great picture and didn't cost a fortune. You can buy them new for $575 off of shopping.yahoo.com. It is detailed and sounds good, but you can tell i... | |
| The best Cdp that have volume control Somehow I knew this would happen. | |
| Wrong direction? TAS is definitely coming up. I agree that Stereophile has gone down since many of it's great reviewers have left. I also think the remaining majority are still very good- Mike Fremer, Sam Tellig, robert reina etc. It's still the most important mag... | |
| Pre-amp or Pre-pro,, which one to get ? I agree with doug. I considered doing the pre-processor route. Some considerations: 1) It's expensive to buy a processor, and this processor tends to lose value fast. 2) The processor's digital section will fall out of step with digitial technolog... |