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| Best live albums from 1970's college days A few more:Concert for BangladeshThe Band: Last WaltzThin Lizzy: Live and DangerousLou Reed: Rock & Roll Animal/Live | |
| Best live albums from 1970's college days Off the top of my head:The Who: Live at LeedsLittle Feat: Waiting for ColumbusJoe Cocker: Mad Dogs and EnglishmenDeep Purple: Live in Japan\Bob Marley: Exodus | |
| Greatest song titles.. There have been several songs and albums with the title:"Laika Come Home." Can anyone tell me who did the original (LONG before the Gorillaz). | |
| New cartridge I own, and like the Titan. It IS a detailed and dynamic cartridge which also manages to be not overly analytical or dry sounding. But, if you really crave a very fast and dynamic sound, another alternative to consider is the Van Den Hul Colibre. | |
| Floorstanding Speaker Feedback Dayglow,I like the sound of the Gershman GA-P 858, which is WAY out of the OP's price range. Is the Sonogram a scaled down version of that speaker? It would be a winner if that is the case. Gershman makes some very nice sounding speakers that are ... | |
| New VPI 3D Arm A printed arm would not be inherently better; it could be cheaper to make if the production run is quite small (no need to machine the tools needed to cast the arm).If the arm were made with some kind of complex internal structure to increase rigi... | |
| Floorstanding Speaker Feedback In your price range, and given that you don't expect to play your speakers at ear-bleeding levels, you should not limit your choices to small floorstanders. There are plenty of great stand-mounted speakers that should be in consideration.Although ... | |
| tube vs SS preamp I have never never witnessed, either personally or among the many friends with tube gear, a failure of tube gear that lead to damage of a speaker. Most tube failures end in distortion or no sound from the speaker. In a post above, someone mentione... | |
| tube vs SS preamp There is very little danger of a tube preamp failure causing a large signal that would take out a speaker, particularly when the downstream amp is a low to medium powered tube amp. Damage is more likely with a solid state amp, particularly higher ... | |
| Which high power SET As Almarg pointed out, it is not necessarily efficiency, but the impedance curve of the Harbeths that MAY make them incompatible with most SET amps. Most SET amps have a fairly high output impendance compared to other topologies. Push pull amps ca... | |
| New $35K pivoting tonearm I recall that a very rare Air Tangent arm allowed for remotely controlled VTA. I never heard of azimuth being adjustable that way. Kuzma had an arm pillar with a digital readout that made it easy to adjust the arm up or down and get back to a prio... | |
| Which high power SET I doubt that there are many here, or for that matter anywhere, who have heard your particular combination of gear with the three candidate amps. I have only heard the WAVAC and the system sounded quite good so it is a possible choice. I own a low-... | |
| vacuum tube shelf life Czarivey,So sadly true. When I got my current phonostage, a friend gave me pairs of 5751s, Telefunken ECC83s, and Amperex Bugle Boy 12ax7s to try out in place of the RCA blackplates that came with the phonostage. I had the tubes in a small box on ... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? Hi Charles,I have heard TVCs and I do think that they are the best way to implement a passive linestage. I also do wonder if they would be even better if incorporated into an all out active linestage. My main "problem" with TVCs are practical/ergo... | |
| vacuum tube shelf life I currently use Western Electric 348, 349, 310 and 311 tubes. I think they are all over 65 years old. The only current production tubes that I have are EML 2a3 tubes.Any modern tube bought now should easily outlive the purchaser, and perhaps, the ... |