orpheus10
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| Why no interest in reel to reel if you're looking for the ultimate sound? "As to amplification, if the speaker is a difficult load, I would choose high powered SS"I would have no objection to that, but my speakers are 92 DB and are easily powered by 70 watt tube mono blocks.It seems that connoisseurs of good music, lik... | |
| Why no interest in reel to reel if you're looking for the ultimate sound? Before I gave a thought to tubes or transistors, when I was in high school in the 50's, I listened to the radio. During this time the music sounded special. In the 60's, after tubes were replaced by transistors, it didn't seem to sound as good.Th... | |
| Why no interest in reel to reel if you're looking for the ultimate sound? You got it Schubert! | |
| Why no interest in reel to reel if you're looking for the ultimate sound? Raul, what you don't understand is the fact that for all of my life, I never listened to anything else but SS. My audio education was with Julian Hirsch and "Stereo Review", and neither him nor the magazine was into tubes; as a matter of fact, I ... | |
| Why no interest in reel to reel if you're looking for the ultimate sound? I have a Technics 2 Track 1500 that has been modified with Black Gate capacitors when such things were available, that I'm quite satisfied with.My speakers are custom built to have 0 sound of their own. An "eccentric" speaker design engineer desi... | |
| Why no interest in reel to reel if you're looking for the ultimate sound? Tubes reproduce the inner essence of the music, while SS reproduces a facsimile of the music which can be silent and noise free "sound" that many find quite appealing.Homer has PrimaLuna integrated, while I have PrimaLuna Mono Blocks, and Audible ... | |
| Why no interest in reel to reel if you're looking for the ultimate sound? Raul, I'm an electronics technician, that's how I earned a living. There was a time when I lived by specifications, and SS was always the best.When my highly rated SS preamp bit the dust, I decided to try tubes. A dealer sent me a a CJ tube loan... | |
| The quiet grid I'm listening to a vocalist I've known all my life; it seems that he is right here in my listening room, we laughed and joked across the kitchen table while eating chicken sandwiches, that's how well I knew him, long before he became an entertaine... | |
| New TT for ~$1500 Thanks for informing me Chackster. I had the Platinum, Sonata, and now the Master; there was a significant move up with each change, I think they're a good buy. | |
| New TT for ~$1500 Chakster, I noticed you never recommend "Grado"; that's my favorite cartridge, and I've tried many.I believe a cartridge is like choosing a girl friend; this is the one for me, but not for everybody else. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Dinah grew up on the South side of Chicago where jazz was king; record stores had outside speakers blasting the latest jazz albums, and there was always live jazz close by. Her love for jazz is quite apparent on "Dinah Jams". This was a live alb... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Pryso, I've been listening to Dinah's CD's, while at the same time looking forward to the 5 record set I ordered.I'm sure the CD's are just as good in regard to Dinah's vocals, where I'm anticipating a difference is in the music; she chose the ver... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Dinah's private life was something; from everything I've read and heard, it seems that when she died was when she was the happiest, she never got enough of nothing until she married Dick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLiN9vrURd8 | |
| Why no interest in reel to reel if you're looking for the ultimate sound? Raul, I agree with almost everything on your most recent post, but it's impossible to have 0 distortion, plus 0 noise and good "music" reproduction with SS; that's because of the way SS amplifies signals as opposed to tubes. Pure music can only b... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I chose this tune because these guys were very close friends, and I wonder if that can be heard in the music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcs9PdZEJwM&list=PLn6hhCaBfMnS-vMnOAiVLCRVi4taVQIp_&index=2 |