newbee
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| Morgen Certainly one of them - I enjoy the Last Four Songs as well. So far I have Felicity Lott - I love the combination of the Songs with the Orchestral pieces by Jarvi on Chandos - one orchestral piece by Strauss is enuf and Lotts singing is just raptu... | |
| Paragon Regent Pivetta, FWIW I've got the Jubilee/Gems and do they sound great with large PP tube amps! Off the 4ohm taps I'd bet you'd be in hog heaven - I have the same mid-range and tweeter and mine are not "bright" in any sense. Revealing yes! Smooth Yes! Ju... | |
| When to replace 6550c on ARC VT 100 III New power tubes will typically "freshen" up a sound which has lost some of it luster due to tubes of advanced age. But, whether your tubes need replacement depends on the hours. Tubes in you amp should probably last between 1500 and 3000 hours. If... | |
| Tube amp with Vienna Acoustics Beethovens? FWIW I have some 4ohm speakers which I have driven with 4 different tube amps, a 35wt integrated, a 60wt triode, an 80wt pentode and a 160wt pentode. The speakers have 2 woofers, 2 midranges, and a tweeter. They are ported. They have an efficiency... | |
| Mel Torme All of my Torme recordings are on the Concord Label and are duo's with George Shearing. My favorites are Top Drawer, A vintage Year, and An Evening with George Shearing and Mel Torme. The last two were from concerts that I attended at the Masson V... | |
| Tube amp with Vienna Acoustics Beethovens? I'm not sure what aspect of your sound you are expecting to improve with a tube amp. Tube amps do sound different from each other tonally speaking, so I would assume you are looking for liquidity and bloom, not more warmth. Personally I would be l... | |
| Subwoofer placement question digagram included The corner is a great place if you need to increase the apparent out put of the sub, however I always got a flat response and better integration with my main speakers when I placed the sub on the wall between the speakers. Moral - don't assume, tr... | |
| What does listening to a speaker really tell us? Marco, You sound like an anarchist. What do you mean everything is subjective? We live in a land of laws and rules, and objectivity rules! Don't be preaching that soft thinking stuff around here. We who know, know best! I just lit the fagots under... | |
| Ancient performance with today's sonics... Eldartford, I'm not sure whether you've heard (of) the Rachmaninoff recordings by Telarc called "A Window in Time" but they involve the use of a Bosendorfer reproducing piano. The producers were able to transcribe the rolls to digital form elimina... | |
| Ancient performance with today's sonics... Telarc did this for some of Rachmaninoff's piano rolls. Some of his own music and transcriptions, on 2 different CD's. Maybe not quite the same as a live performance but you'd have to do some very critical listening to note it. Highly recommended ... | |
| Can we list the better labels? Chesky? Telarc? As you mention Blue note, Chesky, and Telarc I assume you're taking about mostly Jazz. If so, Concord Jazz has consistenly good sound and artists as well and a lot of Verve (but not all by some margin).If you're into classical some of the best lab... | |
| Somebody Help Convert me to tubes Well, probably not the response you're looking for, but if I were in you shoes (and I have been) I'd consider the speakers as well as the pre-amp. You might even re evaluate your need for tubes with different speakers. The only thing that you'd wa... | |
| What does listening to a speaker really tell us? I wish some one would identify for me the "perfect" upstream components that Pawlowski refers to so I can start to evaluate the performance of my speakers! :-)For myself, its all about fufilling my fantasy of what I want to hear in my room - I cer... | |
| AR-SP16 distortion problem I'd contact ARC and ask them. I've had similar experiences with a different model ARC but never care enuf to ask, I just don't use the second set of outputs. | |
| Dedicated cdps that excel in vertical soundstaging Phasecorrect, I will agree with you that CDP's can make a difference and had you asked for recommendations without the expression that "few add height" I think you might have gotten a few more responses on point, as opposed to the discourse on spe... |