montejay
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| Which 300B SET for SF Guarneri Homage? Hi Don,As good as those tubes are out of the box,the black bottles will take a while to burn in,around 500+ hours but are well worth the wait.I am using Pearl tube cooler/dampers with my Franks. The help to reduce the microphonics and you really f... | |
| Favorite Non-Major Record Label LIM,Chandos,Harmonia Mundia (france) | |
| Best tube pre-amp below US $ 10.000,00 ? Coincident Statement Linestage Best I have heard. Convinced me for the first time, that I could live with an active linestage.Overbuilt like no other in this price catagory. Unique in it's design. See my reviewhttp://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.... | |
| Which 300B SET for SF Guarneri Homage? I for one am not surprised that these 300b amps work on some speakers that some wouldn't think possible. You really have to listen to them with different speakers before you can form a conclusion.They do open up 300b SET possiblities to people who... | |
| Whats your current Reference CD at the moment? Currently I am using theseRedbook-We Get Requests-Oscar Peterson K2HD LIM -At The Blue Note- Keith Jarrett ECM -Harry Belefonte At Carnegie Hall Hugo LPD45 -Master of Chinese Percussion K2HD LIMSACD -Brothers in Arms-Dire Straits -Monty meets Sly ... | |
| Best Rock Album in 2010 Just listened to it last nightNeil's rocking. | |
| Jazz Recommendations We Get Requests -Oscar Peterson with Ray Brown on bass.Picked up the K2HD cd a few months back and it's a marvel both sonically and more important musically. | |
| Favourite ECM Titles My favorite label.Manu Katche-NeighbourhoodKeith Jarrett Trio- At The Blue NoteJack DeJohnette-Special EditionRalph Towner-BatikMarcin Wasilewski-TrioYves Robert-In TouchTomaz Stanko-any of hisRegards, | |
| Album which you have listened to most? Keith Jarrett-At The Blue Note,disc IVMark Knopfler-Sailing into PhiledelphiaAl Stewart-Past Present and FutureCannonball-Something ElseMiles-Someday My Prince will ComeZappa-Hot RatsSinku-SinkuI've haven't tired of any of these after countless li... | |
| Best 300B Hi Charles,You are correct. My mistake as I do have the carbon plates and not the SE's.Having heard quite a few 300b's in the Franks (both mine and others)I strongly prefer the black bottles.Regards, | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Coincident Pure Reference Extreme Doubled up.Best I've now heard. I'm half the way there...... :) | |
| Anyone have Coincident Frankenstein amps? Hi Jianming,Did you ever try the Franks with the Coincident Statement linestage. It comes close to the Dragons, but retains the purity that make the Franks so special. By the way I have heard and love the Dragons, but the Franks are my drug of cho... | |
| Best 300B Hi Charles,The best way to explain the difference between the TJ's and the black bottles it that once you put the black bottles in the veil is lifted. Everything becomes more immediate. The bass carries more weight and the highs become both extend... | |
| Best 300B Shuguang Treasures Black bottles and never look backBest 300b I have heard in my system (KR 300b's,Electro Harmonix and TJ carbon meshplates).The KR300b are also very good but reliabilty was the issue I had with them. | |
| Esoteric SA-10 versus X-01D2, Hellp? I have an Esoteric SA-10.It took around 300 hours before it started to sound better to me in redbook than my modded (teflon caps)Electrocompaniet ECM 1UP. Not an easy feat as I love the electro. At the beginning the eso wasn't close to as good as ... |