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| Halcro update My first hearing of their gear at CES. An industry insider I knew told me that I must hear their gear. He said that his encounter brought tears to his eyes because of the flood of memories it triggered; it reminded him of the first time he heard... | |
| Solar Eclipse Music “Eclipse” from “Dark Side of the Moon” | |
| Looking for 50-100 watts of Tube Power (give or take) for my JBL 4349s The thing about tube amps is that there is a VAST difference in sound among different types and brands, so you really need to do some auditioning to determine what best suits your taste. For my own taste, I would be looking for something on the w... | |
| Sota Sapphire and Isolation? While it is impossible for us to know what the complex interactions will be, the odds favor a bad reaction to putting a sprung table on a sprung platform. Even a slightly compliant platform, like the Ginko platform may be a negative, but, one can... | |
| Audio Note DAC Owners- please share your thoughts I've heard a couple Lampizators (don't recall the models) and I like them too. They are examples of good sounding tube DACs that aren't merely a tube buffer tacked on as an afterthought. I can see why they would be someone's favorite. | |
| Audio Note DAC Owners- please share your thoughts I have heard the entire range, including the new top model that is about $156k. They all share the same basic sound—relaxed, natural, and easy to listen to for many hours without being distracted (you engage fully with the music), smooth (but not... | |
| Thank You Fumihiko Sugano and Koetsu i don't know what sounds like the Koetsu--perhaps an SPU Ortofon or an Allaerts. The Allaerts that I liked was crazy expensive, even by Koetsu standards and it was extremely delicate and fussy (the distributor insisted on a very precise loading v... | |
| Kind of Blue When I wan t to shock people with how good old recordings sound, I almost always pull out jazz examples. Almost any late 50's or 60's "six-eye" Columbia sounds great (my demonstration go to is Ellington's "Blues in Orbit" which is late 50's stere... | |
| Is There a New Record Pressing Machine Out There? The lip served two primary purposes--when tables were automatic changes, meaning one record fell on top of another to play the second, third, etc. record, the lip prevented the playing surfaces from rubbing against each other. The second purpose ... | |
| Thank You Fumihiko Sugano and Koetsu Wow! That is not what my dealer heard. He said he continues to order cartridges and has no problem, so far, with supply. It could be sales from stock, in which case he should bite the bullet and order more. There are not that many comparable s... | |
| Kind of Blue ‘Kind of Blue” came out in 1959, the same year as two other albums I like at least as much—“Time Out” by Dave Brubeck, and ‘Shape of Jazz to Come” by Ornette Coleman. There are MANY great jazz albums to collect. Many sound really good on vinyl. | |
| Any normal size speakers that sound like Volti II have not heard your speaker in a long time, and even if I were familiar with the sound, it is impossible to say what sounds like it because what you may be focusing on and what you may like about your speakers might be different from what I am ... | |
| Wool Blankets as Room treatment That is a nice looking setup. An area rug in front of the speakers would help a whole lot; the bigger, the better. Some kind of absorption or diffusion on the side walls would be nice too; I like diffusion with wall decorations, bookshelves, mor... | |
| Searching for a little more warmth If "bright" were the only issue with Zu speakers, that might be dealt with by cable choices and other such changes. But, for my taste, Zu speakers are unnaturally hard and brittle sounding with too lean upper bass/lower midrange If you find them... | |
| 300b lovers A local store builds and sells their own high end tube gear and their own horn-based speakers. For most of their demonstrations of the better horn systems they use their 350B amplifier. One day when the boss was away, two of the younger employee... |