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| Speaker Imaging - Do you hear a line, or do you hear an arc?? Look into microphone polar patterns. Mic placement is critical (Monk at the Five Spot) puts you in the club (took them two nights to get it right) A good engineer can picture the mix before entering the studio. Width and depth are often discussed ... | |
| Tube amp forethought Tubes amps are crude - they like silver wire.Near field listening (in a treated room) will give you the best results.For me - tubes behave well with jazz and classical.Low watt amps (40 wpc) sound sweet at 85 db (nearfield)Bias the amp yourself - ... | |
| Amazon Launches Lossless "Hi-rez" HD Music Service Let the upsampling - remonetization begin!!!Very rare to source undithered 192/24 files.Ear training schools will be needed. 12 mb mp3 to a 280 mb 192/24 bit files sound the same to most untrained ears. Heck some pay top dollar for vinyl cut from ... | |
| Adcom? Lights dim = the real deal.Where was it manufactured? | |
| Tube amp for Zu Omen This Sonic Frontiers SFS-40 that has recently been refreshed/serviced will suit your needs. Here is a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDQSSxPeX_w&feature=youtu.be | |
| Refurbish vs New Amplifier? Components drift over time. Most new parts have 5% tolerance. Everything has a sweet spot and at some point in time all components drift into (and out) this sweet spot. The first thing we do when we get a "sweet sounding" old amp is measure the co... |