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| Garrard 301 - Project @lalitk Great. Give them a few days to settle in before judging. | |
| Garrard 301 - Project I made that suggestion months ago! noromance 12-04-2024 at 12:16am I haven’t heard an amp that hasn’t been improved by rolling in old production Telefunken ECC83/12AX7. | |
| AUDIO SHOWS! WHAT would you like to see more of there. Better brands, hours etc? Definitely later hours. But it's not fair on the workers. | |
| Can using a bad tube hurt an amplifier? Yes and no. The tube can just fail and stop working with no other symptoms, or it can fail and cause a fuse to blow, or burn up a resistor, or destroy an output transformer. It depends on the amp. For what it's worth there are millions of tubes an... | |
| Rega reference belt disappointment Try turning it inside out and retesting. | |
| Would a stereo Sim Audio Moon 861 amp be as powerful as 2 McIntosh 611 monoblock amps? You won't notice on 91dB sensitivity speakers. You’ll be blown across the room before those amps hit 20% of their output power. | |
| Rudy Van Gelder on Vinyl We all know that Rudy played his vinyl on a Dansett. | |
| Do most people prefer tight bass or non tight bass? Accurate bass. | |
| HOW can components be so expensive, and yet customer service is so bad. Big mainstream "high-end" manufacturers and dealers want to unload expensive and highly profitable gear to folks willing to pay. They don't want the grief of after sales which cuts into the easy transaction of the sale. The best type of manufactur... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Yeah, I saw 16HP a few years ago. DEE wasn’t on form, unfortunately. The Denver Grab on Low Estate is awesome. Bought the SOC album from herself when it was released. She refused to autograph it. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Roger Waters - The Lockdown Sessions (Legacy 2023) Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing (A&M 1987) Wooden Wand - Death Seat (Young God 2010) Count Basie & Dizzy Gillespie - The Gifted Ones (Pablo 1979) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Sinéad O'Connor – The Lion And The Cobra (Ensign 1987) 16 Horsepower – Sackcloth ’N’ Ashes (A&M 1996) The Coterie - A Swing To Folk (Emerald Gem 1969) | |
| What do you listen to? My records and all the people on them are my friends. I don't need any more. | |
| Which would be preferable, an older Audio Research Corp. VT130 or a newer SS Rotel 1552? Lose the preamp and use the AR VSi60 integrated. There’s one for practically half-price here: Audio Research VSi60 Stereo Tube Integrate... For Sale | Audiogon | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Current 93 – If A City Is Set Upon A Hill (HomAleph 2022) |