jond
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| It is a good idea to purchase a vintage tube pre-amp. Looking at the listings now there are some awesome choices in your price range such as this:https://www.audiogon.com/listings/tube-silvercore-transformer-coupled-input-and-output-tube-preamp-s...this:https://www.audiogon.com/listings/tube-audio-va... | |
| Who has tried "TIDAL" vs other streaming applications? @grm the Masters section still shows up on Tidal on my Lightning DS Auralic app. Auralic doesn't support MQA either but the master recordings for me all play at either 44.1/24 or 48/24, but 48 is as high as the sampling frequency will go. | |
| Kimber KS-1130 or KS-1126 @jon2020 as he was asking this over 5 years ago I suspect he made his decision already. :-) | |
| KT-88 vs. EL34 I will say I personally very much dislike the 6550 tube from past experiences. I am a bit EL34 fan and find a nice balance in that tube of SET-esque richness and modern linearity. Particularly for me the Gold Lion KT77 variant has been a tremendou... | |
| Integrated Amps with Phono for $3000 or less (or separate phono and Integrated) FWIW you have a pretty excellent amp already I suspect it's going to be tough to better it for under $3K with phono even used. What about your sound are you trying to change? Perhaps invest the money in a better outboard phono stage to pair with y... | |
| Interesting article @raymonda your opinion is perfectly valid and well expressed, and contributes to the thread. Thanks for sharing it and don't sweat the criticism. | |
| Best standalone music server? @uberwaltz let me say sir you are very graceful in defeat! :-) Seriously glad to hear you're enjoying Tidal it is a really amazing service! Happy listening! | |
| Retermination Services in NYC Lol the OP sorry he said don't ask why, I was just being immature. | |
| Retermination Services in NYC Why? | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... @mribob what a lovely post and totally what I would have expected to hear about Frank given his graciousness, enthusiasm, and obvious voracious love of music! He is an asset to these forums no surprise he is equally fine in person thanks for shari... | |
| Original Job amp... Shoot Goldmund an email:http://www.goldmund.com/en/contact | |
| Airtight 300b or Coincident 300b? If you're not totally set on one of those two amps, you're obviously an Audio Note fan, how about these:https://www.audiogon.com/listings/tube-audio-note-uk-vindicator-silver-signature-2017-03-09-amplifie...Not affiliated just a big AN fan and a b... | |
| Looking For Someone That Builds Interconnects But you could also build them yourself if you're handy I am not myself but I hear its super easy to roll your own cables. | |
| Looking For Someone That Builds Interconnects + 1 schmitt custom cables, on a lark picked up a pair of WE interconnects from him for all of $100 they were well built and sounded shockingly good. Excellent service as well. | |
| Short Lifetime for 6NS7 Tubes I haven't tried them myself, my amp has 3 6SN7's upfront, but folks seems to like the Sophia Electric 6SN7 in terms of current production tubes. |