jond
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| Vacuum tube suppliers +1 Upscale Audio I've had great service, outstanding sounding and as important reliable tubes from them. | |
| Raven Audio Osprey Congrats on your new amp and having looked at it on the Raven website all I can say is I hope you opted for the green it looks fantastic! | |
| Harbeth M30.1+Luxman LX-380 & Audio Note AN-E/SPe Oto SE Sig I have the AN-J/lx's and have heard both the AN-E's the Harbeths. My dealer, Deja Vu Audio carries both brands. I am a fan of the AN sound and really love their speakers. I listened to the Harbeth 30.2's the newer model and thought they sounded fa... | |
| RE: Suggestions for Tidal Streaming problems caused by Internet Connection Problems I feel as if Tidal has been largely okay as of late, buffering here and there but short-lived and sporadic. On the whole I'm happy with it. | |
| Newbie Looking for Advice on Streaming Music @audioengr Hi Steve I was looking at the Synchromesh on your site and I think I am reading this right. There is an option for an output that down-samples to 16/44.1 correct? My DAC just does redbook and I have issues when inadvertently streaming M... | |
| Upgrading path from Merlin VSM black magic If you are on the subject of EL34's I can't recommend the Genalex Gold Lion KT-77 highly enough. It's the best EL34 variant I've heard by a large margin and a pretty good value at $45-50 a tube. | |
| Really satisfied??? I am satisfied with my system very satisfied in fact. Can it be improved? Of course it can! But. To really make a meaningful improvement would require a fairly outsize expenditure. So I tinker around the edges but overall I am happy to let things ... | |
| Once you go 300b it’s hard to go back? @charles1dad understood and agreed on power supplies I am sure iwill listen to a 300B amp again someday!@thom_mackris interesting looking amps thanks for the link. On the subject of the amps being push pull I am a fan i’ve heard and loved 45 and ... | |
| What's on your audio wish list for 2018? I think a turntable. Maybe. | |
| Once you go 300b it’s hard to go back? @thom_mackris Everything you wrote makes perfect sense thank you. I should have also been wary of making a blanket statement about tube type. I am sure there are great amps out there using the 300B tube and probably a few mediocre amps using 2A3s ... | |
| Most satisfying system change in 2017? My news speakers, first in 10 years, Audio Note AN-J/lx's. The AN DAC-3 signature I picked up for a song used close second. | |
| Once you go 300b it’s hard to go back? @gsm18439 cool I live near Vu too and have a preamp and pushpull amp both designed by Pavel. EL34 but I've borrowed his pushpull 45 amp before and loved it. | |
| Newbie Looking for Advice on Streaming Music Don it's one thing to get music out of a "box" and another to have it sound good. Many devices, the Blue Sound Node, I use an Auralic Aries Mini, will output sound, a good DAC will make that sound better. And presumably $20K DACs sound amazing but... | |
| Sunfire Classic Tube Pre-Amp I like the Matsushita/National 7DJ8 from Upscale Audio, Platinum graded tubes are $35. They sound great and are very rugged my preamp uses 6 6922's and tends to eat tubes at a high rate. I dropped the current set into my preamp in October 2016 and... | |
| Musician vs. audiophile If your wife is referring to imaging keep in mind electrostatic speakers image incredibly well better than most conventional box speakers. So possibly just the difference in presentation. Though obviously also as suggested above there are ways to ... |