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| Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War? Fidelity. Free trades and great customer service. | |
| Tube Amplifier Sound Characteristics Everyone focuses on the tubes, because they are so obvious and easy to change- and there are indeed differences between tubes. But tube amps really are no different than anything else in that everything matters. Equally important as tubes are tran... | |
| Books! The Complete Guide to High End Audio, by Robert Harley, is exactly the book you seek. It covers the subject so well that even my first edition now nearly 30 years old still covers so much it is hard to believe. The book is beautifully organized in... | |
| Review Shunyata Venom V16 Power Distributor Very nicely done review, thanks! Good job telling us about your listening impressions. This more than anything else is what we need. As you’ve noticed there are some here who will ignore and skip right over all the great positive contributions jus... | |
| You can go home again Do we presently chase a sound baked in our brain from our initial experience with audio? No. But "we" do jump to unwarranted conclusions, don't "we"? | |
| Tube Amplifier Sound Characteristics On the left is warm romantic, on the right cool neutral? Okay having studied your requirements the solution is obvious. Take a clean piece of paper. Draw a rectangle about 5" wide by 2" high. Label the left, "warm romantic". Label the right, "c... | |
| Speaker impedance patterns - how to read them? When looking for suitable speakers for a tube amp - mine is a PrimaLuna EVO 100, 40w x 2 from EL34s - what must be looked at? How to best interpret the impedance pattern, whenever available? Assuming that one listens at normal levels in a mediu... | |
| Tube Amplifier Sound Characteristics Surely you mean multi-dimensional Venn diagram? | |
| Sub woofera and Pet torture This explains a lot. | |
| Power Down Sequence for Amp / TT to Avoid Speaker Pop Right, there is no need to stop the platter. In fact it is much better on the motor to just let it run. But if you are going to turn it off then the way to avoid the pop is to change your input selector to something else. That is what I do in orde... | |
| Ever Been Too High? Is that what they call "In the bag"? "In the bag" goes back to small game like birds hunters would shoot and put in a bag. At that point it is a done deal, secure, etc. Before that it was a bird in hand, which we all know is worth two in the bush.... | |
| Adding a Turntable Mat tksteingraber, Far as I can tell they have a couple dealers here in the US but none of them carries any stock in hand. So I order direct from Mark Baker at Origin Live in the UK. I would email and ask about shipping. Mine came with my Enterprise a... | |
| Ever Been Too High? A local audiobud has this thing called a Volcano. Fills the bag, smoke cools, man can you ever get a big hit. Not the only time I have been too high but certainly the most recent. | |
| What are the current useless terms in this "audio world" If using Budweiser as a reference please remember all other beer will taste. | |
| Crazy Good Vinyl recording fidelity on COMMAND label A great example of how many different things are going on and always changing over time. Equipment, materials, technique and a whole lotta skill goes into a record. Would love to know a backstory like this for one of my favorites, Sinatra-Basie. B... |