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| Tube pre-amps: what defines "better" different tube pres will have different sounds, ranging from extremely warm/tube-y/euphonic to clinical and almost solid-state - you need to determine which sound works best for 1.your ears and 2.your system. if you have a turntable, phono section... | |
| anybody know jazz "native dancer", featuring wayne shorter & milton nascimento is gorgeous and I never get tired of it | |
| It's a Soul Thang Donny Hathaway and Minnie Ripperton are two that haven't come up yet. To push the envelope a little, check out Gil Scott-Heron. | |
| Where will audio be in 10 years? non hard-drive memory, as in memory 'sticks'. I heard that Apple is going to introduce products along these lines this year. the fewer moving parts, the better...and yes, I too will still be loving my vinyl/tube setup. | |
| Please Help My TT is acting like a tuner before you go rewiring or selling your TT, I'd suggest doing a couple of tests.1.try to get another TT, with a different (shielded?) cable into your system to see if it really is better2.unplug the TT, leave on the phono setting and see if there's... | |
| OK, I made the leap... for the most trouble-free way to solve your problem just go to The Audio Connection (in Seattle! 524-7251). John is very knowledgeable about TTs PLUS he has an in house technician (Bill) who will look at your TT to see what's up with it. John is v... | |
| New to tubes one thing not mentioned so far: diagnosing pre-amp tube problems is a pretty simple exercise, and you can do it without a tube tester. If you get bad noises (of any kind) in one channel only, turn off the pre, unplug it, switch the tubes from L to... | |
| tube amp sound more engaging I've read that whatever distortion tubes add is more pleasing to the ear (odd order vs. even order?). I've also heard that tubes are 'easier on the signal'.It's also been said that tube equipment just sounds good no matter how cheap it is. Try lis... | |
| SACD versus Vinyl LPs my answer would be nearly identical to Raytheprinter's: my TT (Lingo-ed LP12 w/Benz HO2), playing a well-made lp sounds better (warmer, more present, more visceral) than the better-sounding SACDs I have played on my Sony SCD-777, but both sound be... | |
| Recommendation for inexpensive integrated I'd look at the Rega line too... | |
| Speaker cable aging? a while back, Michael Fremer (I think it was in his column) wrote about cleaning all his contacts with some metal polishing cream and how much it improved his system. I've had noticeable results from just using some hardware store polish. it's qui... | |
| Does it matter which end is connected? if there's some writing (brand or model name) the direction of the writing might indicate which direction the signal should flow... theoretically (cable theory...), if they're broken in, one direction should sound better than the other, so you're ... | |
| how do i know when my tubes are going bad? don't you have access to a tube tester? that would tell you, although I agree that what you're describing fits worn out 7591s. thetubestore.com sells 7591s ($20) but I have no idea what the quality/reliability of new production 7591s is. the high ... | |
| Downsizing-Need Integrated Amp Advice I'm a tube system owner (Cat pre, Cary monoblocks), but recently I had the new Music Hall Mambo integrated for about a week. It's class A, mosfet, no phono, about $1200 new. I could live with it, and at a fraction the price of my set-up, it was no... | |
| SF Grand Pianos/REL Storm III combo - help I have the REL stadium and Proac supertowers, so I don't know if this is any help to you, but: I have my subs at the lowest possible crossover point ('coarse' and 'fine' settings at the lowest level and the level at about 11 o'clock. In other word... |