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| Trends in value of vintage / used audio equipment? blue-green meters behind a smoke glass faceplate--what's not to like in terms of looks? | |
| Trends in value of vintage / used audio equipment? About the meter craze, I am not a particular fan of meters although my linestage has a meter. It is actually useful for telling me when the linestage is stable and can be switched to fully on. But, the real reason it is there is because the buil... | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? There are not that many tube amp kit sellers these days. I've heard decent sounding amps from ANK (a company that makes kits based on Audio Note (uk) designs and utilizing a lot of Audio Note-sourced components). I've also heard nice kit amps fr... | |
| Check This Out! I heard it at Capital Audiofest and did not know it until reading about it here. I heard the setup by Gestalt and was really impressed by the sound. My focus was on the open baffle Cinnamon speaker which sounded fantastic. I have no idea what t... | |
| Trends in value of vintage / used audio equipment? Under the presumption that technology improves the performance of the newest gear over anything from the past, and because most buyers put a premium on buying something new (meaning instantaneous depreciation after purchase), all gear lose value q... | |
| Vacuum Tube Preamp for Solid State Power Amp Pairing I like the MP3 and its big brother too. But, I don’t recall it coming with remote control. | |
| Vacuum Tube Preamp for Solid State Power Amp Pairing I am not that familiar with linestages in your price range, but I did notice that some very good vintage ones were mentioned, like the EAR and Hovland. However, I believe these did not come with remote control. I think remote control of volume i... | |
| Vacuum Tube Preamp for Solid State Power Amp Pairing Tube gear tends to vary more in sound than do solid state gear. Different design, tube types employed, etc. have a bigger impact than differences in parts and design of good solid state gear—an Audio Note linestage will sound very different ... | |
| Vacuum Tube Preamp for Solid State Power Amp Pairing The sonic result of using a tube linestage feeding a solid state amp can be a little more unpredictable than solid state feeding solid state. You should research impedance matching between linestages and amps. The ideal electrical match would be... | |
| 300B Tube Amps with 15/16 Watts Per Channel? dseltz, I've heard, and really liked, the Charney Companion with the BD3 driver, in a system driven by a SET 300B amp. While this amp does deliver more power than a 45 SET, I know your system can get quite loud while remaining clean. It is hard... | |
| DON:T WAIT! Replace Those Old Power Tubes! Some testers, like the Amplitrex, do test at full power and do give one an idea of how much life is left in the tube. This tester, if attached to a computer, will curve trace the tube. Someone who owns dozens of modern and vintage testers told m... | |
| Can I play my stereo records on a mono rig? It should be fine for playing stereo records. The basic design of Ortofon mono cartridges is the same for stereo and mono cartridges. The suspension is the same so that the stylus is free to move in the vertical direction needed for a stereo sig... | |
| Tweeters with or without fluid? The main function of the fluid is to cool the voice coil of the driver by transferring heat to nearby structures. The fluid can also act to damp the motion of the coil/diaphtagm. The main downside is that the fluid will dry out in about 15 to 20... | |
| Nosferatu I like the recommendations made above. I would add to that list Jim Jarmusch's "Only Lovers Left Alive." | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato As a kid, when we were driving around my father would make the same argument about how stupid is the music playing on the radio. When he started up on that, I would start to sing "Three little fishies in an itty bitty pool. Three little fishies ... |