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| whats more important-speaker or pre-amp cable? IMHO, the affect of a long run of IC is likely to be less audible than a long run of speaker cable so long as your pre-amp can drive a long run. A long run of speaker cable is more likely to result in rolled off highs and softened bass response. P... | |
| Need help in search of Living Voice sound You might like my Silverline Bolero's, but I don't know where you could find them to audition. I feel they have that magical combination of nearly optimum resolution, without added brightness, and general neutrality. If anything a tad polite in th... | |
| Beethoven Ninth Symphony Detlof, LOL - at last I get my due acknowledgement from one of the gods of audio. As a broken clock is right twice a day, so can a Newbee. :-) But lets not make this a habit, too much concurrence gets boring. | |
| New Production Tubes Not that many new production 6922/6dj8's to consider. Forgetting tonal issues the EH6922's are very quiet, rugged, and have a fair amount of detail. I found them to have ample bass. Whether I liked them or not was dependent on the component I used... | |
| Beethoven Ninth Symphony Bernstein with the Vienna Philharmonic is my (rather unusual I think) recommendation. In fact his entire budget set by DG is worth having. And I'm not a Bernstein advocate! In general he picks up the pace a bit and his music is just plain joyous a... | |
| Tube Coolers pros and cons I used to use them on both small tubes and power tubes. Can't honnestly say they did anything for my systems, sonically or for extending or shortening tube life, but they do look 'cool'. I haven't used mine (Pearl) for some years. | |
| "Frightening" or "Relaxing" sound quality? Unsound, FWIW, the point of my statement about phase correct speakers being a 'false god' was not meant to be read as a subtle (or not so subtle) critique of them. In fact what I meant to suggest was, that if anything, these types of speakers beco... | |
| Why buy cheap speakers?? Price relationships between conponents are IMHO meaningless, with the exception of the underlying question of getting high quality speakers or high quality components first. The problem with getting speakers first, the higher the quality, the more... | |
| "Frightening" or "Relaxing" sound quality? I have a problem with the concept of 'frightening' music. You may like it or not, you may understand it or not, but frightening? I don't know..........Perhaps the problem underlying the differentiation between a 'system' which is realistic (remini... | |
| How good is the EAR 834 L preamp? I own one but haven't used it in a while. I used it as a back-up to my SP10II. Harry Pearson of TAS reviewed it and made a comparison between its sonic signature and that of the SP10. Sounds quality is good but its build quality is, IMHO, poor, co... | |
| Can't get proper tube bias per manual Being unable to bring tubes up to recommended the bias range often is due to tube aging. If those are old tubes it may just be time to change them. | |
| Best sounding Beethoven symphony LPs Wow. Overlooked that the request was for LP's. You can ignore most of the stuff I recommended. Some would be hard to find, some impossible because it started life as a CD. Am I blind or what! :-( The only consolation is that I wasn't the only one.... | |
| anyone use the parasound jc2 with primaluna monos? You'll loose the remote, but with all of the exercise you'll get you'll live longer to enjoy it! :-) | |
| anyone use the parasound jc2 with primaluna monos? Its simple, the PL3 and the PL amps are very synergistic, and combined they challenge a LOT of stuff out there, even some fairly expensive seperates or integrateds. I use the PL3/5 combo in preference to other stuff on hand, and I'm considering mo... | |
| Does impedance matter? There is nothing confusing about audiophiles rejecting the use of equalizers or other tone benders. Are we not he leading example of, and may actually define, what being a masochist really means? :-)Anyone want to buy my demo hair shirt? |