mahgister

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Dynamic Range - the golden key to music nirvana?
The golden key of audio is not dynamic, it is timbre experience and spatial localization... Dynamic is third at best not first and not even second... At least not for classical music listener or jazz listener  who dont bother  too much with elec... 
Affordable SS that sound like Tubes
Opposing all S.S. design to all tubes design or vice versa is ignorance of the two most important factors in audio which are not analog versus digital , but ACCOUSTIC/psycho-acoustic first and last components synergy... The rest is prejudices....... 
Jazz for aficionados
I feel exactly as you feel... It is just that i make exception about "free jazz" with the like of  genius Eric Dolphy for example... I dont like most free jazz... Or for "cosmic jazz or interplanetary jazz" i make exception for Sun Ra , because ... 
Jazz for aficionados
Sun Ra music is not a commercial product , it was an experience to live in real time... Cd give an idea and also listen to those musicians who experienced this for decades with NO real MONEY, NO real FAME ...Only the musical experience 7 days/7 da... 
100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie
Scarlatti integral ... Telemann integral... Bach integral first ... We are well over 100 cd here ...😊    
Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better?
The two tubes amplifier i listened too were more clinical hugely more than my Sansui alpha... My Sansui alpha is fluid organic warm and detailed and beat these two by a HUGE margin... If i was like you i will come here and said that S,.S. design... 
Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better?
S.S. design and Tubes are two very good technology with good and bad apples in each groups... Generalizatrion means nothing here , only synergy between components for specific ears canals and cochlea  at the end count... I just returned back for... 
Affordable SS that sound like Tubes
Your claim express a generalization and prejudice not clear thinking... First : All productions in amplifier from Sansui extend 67 years with very different period of production...Only a false reasonning  will conflate all these years of product... 
Affordable SS that sound like Tubes
This is my dream amplifier a S. S. one it is the top version of my Alpha 607 i :   Sansui Alpha AU-907MR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa2Y95eQjNA  
Jazz for aficionados
This documentary is very short but expain who is Sun Ra.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCDzkMYVnOg  
Jazz for aficionados
This one represent his free jazz at his best ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDd9bSSos4M  
Affordable SS that sound like Tubes
Probably one of the best solution could be a tube pre-amp as the Berning microzotl and a power amplifier of S.S. design which must be tube-like for this optimal pairing as any Sansui of the Au series are... ... If i could i would have done it...B... 
Affordable SS that sound like Tubes
Sansui established this long time ago officially ending successfully  with  their project to create a S.S. design that will sound exactly as their top amplifier AU111... Then from this came half of your sentence : some tube designer effectively c... 
Affordable SS that sound like Tubes
To answer about S.S. versus tubes... And going on with my Sansui Story: One of the best designer of tube transformer in the world till today is Hashimoto which is a company which was created by Sansui and which is Sansui legacy in tubes amplifie... 
Flat frequency response
Speakers exist optimally and really in room which are tuned by one owner for his own ears...Otherwise it is only a well measured abstract design because not living yet in a room and  not yet working for some ears...😊