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| Which Tube Phono Pre Amo? Sun Valley SV-EQ1616D. Save yourself some coin and buy it as a kit or have the folks in Japan assemble it for you. Just read the Stereophile review if you need convincing. Even mentions trying it with an Ortofon Black. | |
| Speaker Cables? why all the hype for expensive speaker wire? Terms like "expensive" and "basic" how relative, but I can give my experience.For years I just use the basic Amazon speaker wire for all my stuff because it was nice and cheap. Then I got some tinned copper speaker wire from Jupiter condenser. To ... | |
| Looking for an amp that punches way about its weight and I can grow with Ditto on the Bob Latino VTA-120 amp. With good coupling capacitors and a good rectifier, It's really excellent. Very wide top end. And, if you've got efficient speakers, you can switch into triode mode for that rich mid-range sound. | |
| Upscale Audio and Primaluna Those folks are one town over for me, so I go to them for tubes and I actually bought my Rega turntable from them as well. Not a bad company to buy from.That being said, they are very salesy. The amount they push primaluna gear makes it very obvio... | |
| Lack of Female Representation I'm sure there are a number of reasons. For my money, I don't think women like to collect things as much as men do. What's the first thing your wife says when you bring something home? "Where are you going to put that?" | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? I think there's a market to be had, but it's not going to be what their parents and grandparents bought. They don't want stacks of large components and large tower speakers that occupy lots of room and consume lots of power. Younger folks prefer c... | |
| Is $2,844 too much to pay for a fuse? Totally worth it!Oh wait, it's just a fuse? I thought it was some magical device that dispensed espresso and hand jobs. | |
| Looking for recommendations for a pair of full range speakers for ~8k or under If you're talking full range, you NEED to check out Omega Speakers. In addition to having a decent number of styles which are pretty customizable, they are also 100% made by hand here in the USA and look absolutely gorgeous. | |
| Looking for a turntable around $1k... I have a Rega P3. Great TT with the capacity for some upgradability. I also like vintage Dual TTs. Go to fixmydual.com, get yourself a 1218 and buy a cartridge with an upgradable stylus. | |
| I have been on the hunt for the best turntable I can buy. Any suggestions? Go to fixmydual.com and buy a 1229. | |
| Surge protectors and power conditioners - Good idea or bad? When I built my Bob Latino amp, the instructions explicitly said to not attach the amplifier to a power conditioner. I didn't quite understand the explanation, but leads me to believe that it is not an entirely neutral thing to add to your power. | |
| Recommendations for a modestly-priced audio system? Klipsch RP-600M and the Vista Audio Spark. The Klipsch monitors really truck with few watts and the Spark is a wonderful class A/B compact amp. Then, add an Emotiva Bluetooth. The Emotiva sounds decent on it's own, but you can feed it to a better ... | |
| Reccomend a good preamp for me. Tubes4HiFi PH14. You can have it built with balanced inputs and/or outputs. Wonderful sound, but might be a bit too "tubey" for some amps. | |
| Tube Dealers 2021 upscaleaudio.com is good. I'm more limited selection, but that's only because they're very selective about the tube they accept. | |
| Warning: China-Hifi-Audio.com Bummer to hear. I actually bought a small item on that website and, while the whole thing felt a bit janky, my merchandise arrived and everything was fine. |