pfeiffer

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Ideas for Pre/Power $9000?
with your budget of 9k, pick up a used deHavilland tube preamp for between 1700 and 3000. Then a used Bryston 14b3 amp for 6000-7000. I have this combo and love the music I hear.   
BEST little know Jazz Album that you ever heard?
Cecilia Strange "Blikan" and also "Blue" JD Allen "Love Stone" Caimir Liberski Trio "Evanescences"  
Favourite Guitarists
Frank Zappa Kenny Burrell Jimi Hendrix Pat Metheny Bill Frisell  
Hot Rats
Hey bdp24...your statement associating Frank Zappa with Donald Trump could be the most shallow,  bizarre and idiotic thing Ive read on any forum in a long time! There's a lot of shite spewed here on the Audiogon forums...you sir, must have a prett... 
Hot Rats
 Zappa's  "Blessed Relief", "Twenty Small Cigars", "Grand Wazoo" and "Waka Jawaka", along with countless others, is some of the most wonderful music I've ever heard. I saw him in concert three times and was amazed that he encouraged people to vote... 
Modern Jazz Pianist recommendation
Myra Melford                   Herbie HancockMarilyn Crispell                Oscar PetersonMasabumi Kikuchi           Stefano BollaniBobo Stensen                  Stefano BattagliaJohn Taylor                      Bill EvansBrad Mehldau            ... 
Zappa Recommendations ?
Zappa's "Blessed Relief" is, in MHO, simply incredible.  Also "Twenty Small Cigars" and "Big Swifty" are Zappa at his most genius. 
First tube preamp recommendations (under $5k)
I have used the deHavilland Ultraverve 6sn7 based preamp for at least 10 years.  Over that time I have had the preamp's designer, Kara Chaffee, mod it with Dueland silver point to point wiring and Dueland premier capacitors. I run this preamp into... 
First tube preamp recommendations (under $5k)
I have used the deHavilland Ultraverve 6sn7 based preamp for at least 10 years.  Over that time I have had the preamp's designer, Kara Chaffee, mod it with Dueland silver point to point wiring and Dueland premier capacitors. I run this preamp into... 
Looking for an amp that punches way about its weight and I can grow with
As has been mentioned by several others, Bryston is an amp that punches above its weight (however it is heavy).  Either the Bryston 14b3 at 600wpc or the 4b3 at 300wpc are wonderful units...and with the very best warranty in the business.  Their U... 
Tubed Preamp recommendations?
DeHavilland Ultraverve. An excellent 6sn7 based tube preamp. I use mine with a Bryston 14b3 as amp.  
Equipment that has made you 'stop' looking?
Bryston 14b3...effortless, articulate, quiet, powerful with 600 wpc into 8ohms and all with the best warranty in the business 
Tube Preamp with Solid State Amp?
I run a deHavilland Ultraverve tubed preamplifier, modified with Dueland caps into a big Bryston 14bsst amplifier. Very nice results! 
Best debut album
Soft Machine “Third” or Frank Zappa’s Yellow Shark 
Does altitude change the sound of speakers??
I don’t know about altitude changing sound...but what about attitude?