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| Replace tubes yearly? @silverfoxvtx1800 ”Don’t mean to change the subject but looks like some experts with tubes in here, what’s the best NOS 6SN7 for a nice warm tone you have used?” Personally, I’ve been using a pair of Tung-Sol 6F8G tubes (in a 20+ year old Te... | |
| The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse!! Ah, yes. The ages-old “Why in MY day…” Applicable to just about everything from music to literature to politics… well, maybe not politics. I think my grandmother had that right when she would look at some politician on TV and say “they’re ALL thi... | |
| Tone Arm Lifter A vote for Integrity HiFi’s Tru-lift. ONE caveat: it WILL leak silicone oil over time making the actuator slip off the ledge on the piston. You’ll think you’re good to sit down for a few minutes’ leisurely listening and… SKIP… SKIP…SKIP…SKIP same... | |
| Audio racks that can handle heavy components Salamander Archetype. I bought a used stack in MAPLE including two side stands for speakers from a guy for about 40% new pricing. Found another stack I picked up out of state en route to our new home for even less. Sturdy, solid, great woodgrain... | |
| What were your top musical discoveries of 2024? Heilung Forndom Wardruna and a host of other “Viking” music. I had no idea the Norse Sagas and Eddas were being worked into modern-day music releases or that there’s a virtual army of online techno-geek linguists commenting on the translatio... | |
| 2025 Audio System Wish List Time! Just that we get a final electrical inspection and a certificate of occupancy this week for our new home in Tennessee AND that I find time in 2025 to finish my “man cave”/audio room/office and get my HiFi set up again. Also considering a Denafrip... | |
| What contributes most to a change in how an amplifier sounds? 1- whoever is listening. 2- location, local, location. | |
| My All Time Christmas Song I’m partial to the classics. Bob Rivers’ “Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire” is one of my perennial favorites. Ho-ho-ho. | |
| Is there a vacuum tube summary poster similar to this grape varietal summary Not altogether a bad idea. Certain sound qualities COULD be listed/graphed like “harsh” “airy” “balanced” muffled, lacking mids, etc and some kind of chart made reflecting general consensus of certain MANUFACTURER’s tubes, but that’s the problem ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Miles and Miles. Miles in the Sky Sorcerer Nefertiti | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Miles Davis’ “Nefertiti.” Going to have to play this through another half dozen times - as I do with all of Miles’ work. | |
| Klipsch La Scala or Altec 838 speakers I still find it remarkable that in answer to a simple either/or question all the “experts” come in out of the woodwork to recommend anything BUT the two choices given by the OP. My vote is with LaScalas, but I’ve been a Klipsch fan since 1973-ish... | |
| Type 45 Tubes for stereo amplifiers I’m burning in a pair of EML 2A3 mesh tubes now for a monoblock pair I’m working on. Using them in a 20 year old Tektron TK2 2A3/50. I’ve also got a pair of EML 300B tubes I’ve used for over a year. Both sound awesome, the 2A3’s so far a little ... | |
| Recommendations for 20 amp electrical outlets @jea48 I re-read that and it doesn’t now, while fully caffeinated, make that much sense to me either. Thanks for catching it. Not sure I can even recreate what I was trying to say at the time. | |
| Recommendations for 20 amp electrical outlets @dbt Thanks for that. One of my best friends is a master electrician who’s finishing the wiring on my new house in a few weeks (I hope, I hope, I hope) and I ran an aluminum sheathed 10 AWG line from the new breaker box to my audio room/man cav... |