peterf6
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| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? @rudd2004 thanks for the recommendation for Masterpieces! Sound is gorgeous (I'm listening on Tidal through a Marantz 8b), and the story of the recording is fascinating. For anyone else who's interested: https://slate.com/culture/2014/12/duke-elli... | |
| Why did you purchase the equipment you have and what do you like most about it? This is a fun topic. Thank you to everyone who shared their inspiration and outcome. As I read so many people talking about dealers, it reminded me of the used hi-fi shop where I went to buy a stereo for my first apartment (late 70s). I was asking... | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? There is some good description of what makes a difference here, from the founder of Soundsmith: https://youtu.be/F65mODzn4Gk?si=chNaLUA7EOkvrW6s | |
| Replace tubes yearly? @silverfoxvtx1800 ICYI: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/the-reference-6sn7-thread.117677/ | |
| How do you A/B amps in your system? @webking185 You make such a nice point: Once you are listening to a certain level of sound quality, you're not so much listening for a difference between apples and oranges as you are for nuances between varieties of apples. I'm swapping a Marantz... | |
| How do you A/B amps in your system? @bassbuyer That looks like a cool one. I love that the VU meters are so broken down in the sub 10 Watts area. You can watch to see how often you get beyond the first watt! | |
| How do you A/B amps in your system? It makes total sense that you gain one set of information from long-term varied listening and another from the immediate A/B of a section that the switching devices provides. The one is more of a gestalt of the amp while the other provides details... | |
| How do you A/B amps in your system? Thanks, @mashif, I also have a Schiit Freya preamp available -- which has multiple pre-out options. It would help with allowing keeping input connections into different amps and remove one element from switching, requiring just the speaker cable c... | |
| How do you A/B amps in your system? Thank you all for sharing your experiences and what you have found useful. @toddalin thanks for sharing your design and the warning about tube amps (which is one of what I'm comparing). And I guess @zlone your experience shows that it's possible t... | |
| How do you A/B amps in your system? Thanks @carlsbad2 . I do that in my studio, sometimes, but it's not an option in our living room 😄 | |
| How do you A/B amps in your system? It dawns on me that the advice to listen long also allows for the amp to settle into the system (which seems like voodoo but I always notice that it helps). | |
| How do you A/B amps in your system? Thanks for the thoughts, and @lanx0003 thanks for the exact tool. Of course on Audiogon we will have to debate the sound of the switcher! Lol | |
| Favorite scream in rock? @jastralfu cool! I'll listen for David and the other Brandi Carlile. | |
| Favorite scream in rock? Getting a woman in the list: Brandi Carlile, The Story. Also, to the earlier David Lee Roth @jastralfu vote, my understanding is that it was bassist Michael Anthony who did the band's screaming! Roth's range is more limited. | |
| Subwoofer Advice Easy way to check phase on sheffield labs test record, track 22: https://tidal.com/album/11648127?u |