newbee
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| Is Solid State Preamp and Tube Amp A Good Combo? Some folks have concluded that most of the benefits of 'tube' in your system is their existence in your amps. Tubes in pre-amps and sources has as much to do with tone, bloom, air, etc, which will not pass unscathed thru a SS amp. I tend to agree ... | |
| Looking for info on headphones You can find headphones for $200, but based on my observations of your other audio goals in other posts you would not be happy with them for anything except the privacy they can provide. At a minimum you need not only good phones but a seperate am... | |
| Most agreed upon best speaker? "Why don't I just enjoy the music as it is now and forget about upgrades?"Dammed if I know, but it seems to be a disease, some sort of a masculine thing, that all audiophiles suffer from, at least to some degree. FWIW, at least it worked for me, I... | |
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? That you can't reliably hear differences is not surprising for a lot of reasons....and Tvads advise is sound.Consider that 1) Your equipment may not be resolving enuf to reveal subtle differences that exist in many ss digital devices.Consider that... | |
| I just bought a Audio Research D-90. Usually a tube amp puts out the same wattage into any load, unlike a SS amp which doubles down until it runs out of current, often 4 ohms and in inexpensive amps somewhat above that. A few big tube amps even have 2 ohm taps though but their power ... | |
| Does speaker toe-in affect reflection points? It certainly changes the critical part of the reflection point, not only on the side walls but on the ceiling and the floor as well. Not a small thing, BTW, but often overlooked. Remember when you are thinking about side wall reflections that the ... | |
| unbiased opinion of Moon monoblocs "Thanks for the illumination" But, it was not you that I was trying to illuminate. I thought your bulb was already operating at full output. :-)Maybe I'm humorless, or just a dim bulb, but I failed to see his 'real reason' for posting as anything ... | |
| Most agreed upon best speaker? Age of listeners v age of speakers, is I think relevent, but I would add that a lot depends on the recording practices and electronics that existed in the period of time when the recordings were made and how they would sound on equipment contempor... | |
| So Much "Harshness" At the risk of sounding like Mr T, when we are referring to harshness, what assumptions are we working on, i.e. the extent of the complaints that folks are making about the degree of the complainers experience of harshness? For example, in my resp... | |
| unbiased opinion of Moon monoblocs Everything is relative. To get a meaningful answer to your question, assuming one is available, you must reveal a bit of your audiophile soul.1) What speakers will you be using?2) How loud will you be listening. What is important to you about the ... | |
| Bookshelves LS3/5A's embody the soul of your request. They don't get better than this, that is why they are still popular 30 years latter! I've been responsible for a lot of friends buying them over the years, and most still have them, and just love them. BTW... | |
| Preamp Tube Rolling The 'input' tube, has a more discernable effect (usually the first tube in the circuit). Other tubes, such as cathode followers, have a much lesser impact, but they do have some so don't, ultimately, ignore them. If you don't know the tubes order ... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Hey guys, how can you make such broad statements about the effect of format choices, like digital v vinyl. IMHO you can tune your system to enhance either format so there is NO fatigue. It only gets tough when you try to tune your system to enhanc... | |
| So Much "Harshness" "Lower resolution"! You are about to be drummed out of the corp! Tar, feathers, rail and a couple of drummers please!How about real resolution, not just an enhanced sense of resolution by the manipulating rise/fall times, increaed HF response, etc... | |
| So Much "Harshness" Mr T, Sorry, I should have used the word 'components', not 'music'. And you are right! I haven't the slightest clue what you were doing then, or now for that matter. But, if you are relying on your personal components, as described, for support fo... |