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| Chet Baker vs. Miles Davis As already mentioned in this thread Miles Davis had much more wider interests in music. Not less importantly, he contributed in the formation of many outstanding musicians. | |
| Solid State Preamp to replace tube unit To my taste, it would be hard to find a solid state amplifier that fully substitutes a tube amp features. McIntosh solid state amplifiers tend to sound quite warm. Just for fun, you can also try a class D amplifier, you may like the result. I'm... | |
| Recommendations for really well-recorded music for high-end audio system demo If you like jazz, "88 Basie Street" by Count Basie on JVC 20 bit K2 is particularly well recorded. In general many albums on JVC 20 bit K2 series are well recorded. | |
| Tube Amp recommendation for Thiel CS1.6 under $2k I don't have CS 1.6s, but I have been using Manley Stingray push pull amplifier for over 20 years with 4 different pairs of Thiel speakers including CS 1.9 and CS 3.6 (which I guess are the closest to CS 2.6 with very nice results. In fact I tri... | |
| Speaker cable length. For many years, in my second audio system, I am using cables of different length, one is about 3 times longer than another. I used different speakers and amplifiers. I noticed no problem and no differences at all. | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? Mahgister, thanks for the clarification on "taste marketing", apparently, I did misunderstand you in this issue, which is a relevant point. but, if I am not wrong, here the aim of marketing is to "establish and control" audiophile tastes, not visa... | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? *talks* —“thoughts”, sorry for the misprint | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? Mahgister, you expressed your talks perfectly well. I also understand what “not even wrong” means. But let me not agree with you. Firstly, I don’t see any relationship between individual taste and marketing. I am too far from marketing but I thin... | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? It is good to talk on motivations and fundamentals of our audiophile hobby... Too many posts, was basically able to read the beginning of this nice thread. I agree that subjectivity factor cannot be ignored, we may perceive things in different wa... | |
| Robert Plant I should the same feelings regarding Led Zeppelin and Plant from my early childhood. These BBC recordings are particularly good and their quality is not bad for the year. Led Zeppelin remains my favorite rock band along with Emerson Lake & Pal... | |
| I found the best way to recycle my old tubes! "If you can feed them with electricity they will look even more attractive :" But be very careful not to provoke fire | |
| I found the best way to recycle my old tubes! If you can feed them with electricity they will look even more attractive :) you may also put some colors on them Merry Christmas 🎁🎁 | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions @rolox Thanks for your post. Looks and sounds interesting. Would be nice to try it. | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions Just an update on my earlier post on my LSA Voyager GAN 350 map. Mr. Walter from Underwood hifi was so kind to replace it with another new one. So far the new one works without showing similar problems. Walter has also recommend an SPL Elector SS ... | |
| Help me spend $100,000 on a new system You should not necessarily use special absorbing material that may look ugly. You can rather use carpets, paintings, lamps, nice wooden things and furniture to make your listening room enjoyable. |