newbee
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| Good upgrade amp for my Thiel 3.6s justin, either amp would power your thiels to your hearts content. you will have the classic ss/tubes question to resolve however. you will give up some of the airiness of tubes with the threshold - you will also give up the not inconsiderable exp... | |
| Good upgrade amp for my Thiel 3.6s this is sort of ancient history, but i believe when thiel was making the 3.5 they voiced it with threshold. i used a threshold sa50 class a amp - it was the only amp i found which could give me a balanced sound. i do not know what amp thiel used t... | |
| Jazz with less horns?? if you like solo piano, trios and quartets which are on the mellow side, try bill evans stuff. he is one of jazz's greats from the 60's. | |
| Rosemary Clooney / Shirley Horn / Peggy Lee three more shirley horn alblums, all on verve. you won't forget me, close enough for love, and here's to life. i agree with drubin on i thought about you and i have heard it so often i use it as a reference testing equipment. | |
| Audio Research pro's-what pre-amp to choose? interesting question! i have a mesa baron and fairly neutral speakers. i find the top end of the baron can be a problem with a lot of preamps. i have been usng an arc sp10 with good results. i use 6h23eb's in the line stage of the sp10 and yugo el... | |
| Why is my Audio Research SP6-b noisy? steve, do i assume correctly that you first noticed the hiss when you started using the horn speakers? if that is so, then you are the victim of their efficiency. i've noticed the same thing with an sp10 which is very sensitive to tube noise. one ... | |
| How to store extra turntable belts? vacumn sealed plastic bag works best. second best is a sealed plastic bag with most of the air removed. keep in a cool dark dry place. i can't see much benefit from refrigeration. | |
| EAR preamp and phono products i have had the 834l for about 2 years - it is a very simple design, and the sound is very similar to my AR sp10. retubed with yugo's it is very clean and transparent. tube life alleged to be about 5 years (left on all the time). some one wrote a r... | |
| Cable Fetish: Exotic, Warm and Romantic try some cardas - much much better than the old monster. | |
| Best Kept Speaker Secret? look at the jubilee/jems for sale for 2300. look at my comments on these on audiogon and on audio asylum. the only speaker i liked better was the verity audio parsifals. these replaced my quad 63's! these were a great buy new at twice the price. b... | |
| Imaging i note that some one has just listed a pair of paragon jubilee/jems for 2300. i have owned these speakers for 5 years now and i can't speak too highly of them. see my prior posts on this board and on audio asylum for my comments. i can't figure ou... | |
| Looking for warmth,openess, detail if you're going to replace your speakers, why not wait - cables are synergistic with amps and speakers? | |
| Tubes for EAR 834L and 834P? i'm running yugo 12ax7 (nickel plate) and yugo 12au7s. try them first, their cheap and have very clean highs. | |
| What's the "best" tubes for a cal alpha 24/96dac? i use new production yogo's. el12ax7s, nickle plates. very very clean highs. in another application they were a bit shy in the lower mid range but i can't hear this effect on my alpha. i've never tried the NOS tubes recommended by upscale audio. t... | |
| Why do I have to turn the volume level so high? think of 0 gain as a point where your preamp is passing the source signal onto the amp unattenuated. - gain is when you are reducing the gain of the source and + gain is when your preamp is amplifying the source signal. each source signal is diffe... |