newbee
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| Concord Jazz concord jazz is one of my favorite contemporary labels. try scott hamilton, gene harris, ray brown, ken peplowski and dave mckenna, depending on your choice of instruments and music - they're all good recordings, but for starters i would stick to ... | |
| mixing tubes and transistors the only electric hazzard you are creating is the possible transmission thumps/pops while the preamp is settling down. some of these could damage amps (unlikely but possible) or the speakers (quite possible). if your preamp has a mute switch that ... | |
| 6550 tube question i just retubed my sonic frontier sfm 160's with svet 6650's. they produced a very balanced neutral sound. for reference, in these amps the svet kt88' sound some what brighter and the sovtek kt88's some what rolled off and closed in. in a different... | |
| Tuner in the 600 range for classical music? if you don't need sensitivity but you like musicality find a used perreaux tu3. with a strong signal this can sound as good as other source analog. its not dry or clinical which is how i find so many tuners. | |
| 6H23 tube Ya or Na ? i'm not using a modulus, but i am running 6h23eb's in my sp10. tonally there is no difference from my older sovteks. the 6h23's are a bit smoother and in my system just a tad noisier - they will not solve brightness problems if you have them. can'... | |
| Sibelius Symphonies otto, blomsstedt with the sf. i note you like russians - if your not familar with the ashknazy versions you might give them a try, i like #4 best. you can just feel the cold wind of the artic........... | |
| Swan Lake ballet. i'd vote for gergiev on phillips or fedotov on jvc. both all russian productions. | |
| Sibelius Symphonies vanska on bis - all 7, my favorites. also ashkenazy, blomstedt on all 7 and levine on 2 & 5. | |
| Room setup vs. longer interconnects if your preamp can drive the cables, everything else being equal, you should hear no substantive difference. i drive 7 meter lengths with no loss (cardas cable - arc preamp). | |
| Symphony Recommendation sugarbrie, could be the masur w/nyp. wasn't my favorite. i guess if he has harnoncourt he can just ignor the recommendation. there are a lot of excellent dvorak 9ths out there but he was looking for sota sonic's........... | |
| Symphony Recommendation kleiber on dg for the 5th - this is easily the most exciting beethoven 5th recorded. don't let its age bother you, the performance will make up for any sonic deficiencies due to age.re dvorak's 9th, for sonics and performance, harnoncourt on telde... | |
| What are the best sounding classical CDs which composers? what style? | |
| Good upgrade amp for my Thiel 3.6s personally, i wouldn't buy any of the solid state amps except the threshold without listening first (because i'm familiar with it), and i would certainly want to hear the plinius - from what i have read and been told your can get a 250IV in your p... | |
| The Soundlabs must go-any thoughts on substitutes? verity audio parsifals. don't over look these. and they love tubes. they are my next speaker...........my quads are already in the attic. | |
| Amplifier Orientation? two issues to deal with if you are saying that you want to stand your amps on their ends assumiong that they do not have cooling fans: `1, standing them on their ends could diminish the flow of cool air, i.e. the hot air flow off the lower tubes w... |