newbee
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| Tube Amp out of Bias-what does it sound like? Proper biasing can make a sonic difference. As little as a 5ma difference lower than optimum can change my sound from neutral/warm to neutral/cool. 5ma over optimum bias can shorten tube life quite a bit. Bais requirements change as the tubes age ... | |
| Tubes with Tylers FWIW I have some Tyler Linbrook Sig Systems 1 piece and I have driven them with a 35 wt EL34 amp, a 35 wt KT88 amp, a 80wt KT88 amp, and a 160 wt 6550 amp. The only difference I hear in my medium size room at volumes which don't overload the room,... | |
| Spikes versus Rubber on wood floor? Here are a few thoughts, for what there are worth. IMHO the only vibrations which originate in a speaker that are 'necessary' to drain are those which by reason of construction and materiels creat a resonance at some particular frequency, if that ... | |
| Is anyone willing to entertain the idea No, but I'd be willing to entertain the idea that 50% of all 'audiophiles' really don't know how to listen for differences and identify them. And I'd also be willing to entertain the idea that many audiophile hear stuff because of the power of sug... | |
| reference recordings The Bruckner 9 is an outstanding performance as well as recording. One of my Favorite RR's. His Copland 3 w/ Applachian Spring and Fanfare for the Common man is a good recording and performance as well. Assuming you just want some generic classica... | |
| reference recordings If your question is based on sound quality, just about any of them. Hard to go wrong. The HDCD versions might be best if you have a unit which can decode them. If you are talking about performance quality, which performances are you interested in? | |
| RACHMANINOFF PIANO CONCERTO 2 Ashkenazy rules in Rachmoninoff! Symphonies, PC's w/Previn, solo piano, and two piano's w/Previn. Very good recordings as well. Now that thats out of the way.....Listen to Hough before you buy. Despite all of the accolades, I found it a disappoint... | |
| Midrange hiss....VERY slight...with my Dared pre Interestingly it may be just that and new has nothing to do with it. I have two new amps, both with high sensitivity (.5v and .8v)and two older amps by about 12 years which have much lower sensitivity (1.5V), some of the older ones even go down to... | |
| Midrange hiss....VERY slight...with my Dared pre If you can't hear tube rush at normal/high volume listening levels, its NOT a problem! Even more so if you only hear it when you've got your ear within inches of the tweeter/midrange. Many fine units both SS and Tube, operating properly, will reve... | |
| How can you tell....... Call Leonard at ARC and ask. He is the most reliable source. | |
| Tube pre w/single inputs vs. SS pre with balanced? If you like the sound of tubes you will never find it in SS. You may find similar tonality but thats about it. Listen to one of those SS preamps that 'sound like tubes'. More than likely all you will hear is a darkish tonality which is NOT the sou... | |
| SP-10 plus MC SUT or Baby with Bathwater? FWIW ARC doesn't (didn't) recommend step up transformers. As I recall its in the manual. Personally, if I 'had' to have a low noise cartridge I'd get a different pre-amp w/or w/o a built in phono. I chose a medium output cartridge instead. Life is... | |
| Good Grief. Another Tchaikovsky already. Your tag line sez it all. That was my reaction when I saw the reviews. Thanks for the description. BTW I agree with you about Chung, totally! Try her Bruch if you haven't already (which I imagine you have). | |
| Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity? ROTFLMAO. This thread just gets better with each passing day. 1st the clock, then power cords & cables, now God. Hard to imagine what could be next! Better than the comic's or politics by a far margin! :-)Come to think about it, why not politi... | |
| Audiophile Classical cds? Several have recommended Zander. I concur! Don't overlook his latest, Mahler 1 which also includes 'Songs of a Wayfarer'. This is an outstanding recording, performance, and program. Other 'audiophile' greats would include Barber/Menotti Violin Con... |