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| Which headphones should be purchased? I own several high-quality headphones, including a Sennheiser HD-600. A friend of mine let me hear his Bose noise-canceling phones. It was not a good test for sonic quality. We were using his music, his personal stereo and the test was quite brief... | |
| Male Jazz singers - any recommendations? Louis Armstrong is the unquestioned king of the jazz vocal genre. There really is no one else who comes close in skill, technique and phrasing. The fact that he could achieve all of that with a voice which was not classically beautiful is all the ... | |
| CAT Ultimate If the E188CC was OK to use in the CAT, it would be listed in the manual. It is definitely NOT the same as a 6922, even though it can be substituted for one in some circuits. If you use it, you take the risk of damaging the CAT. If you want to be ... | |
| CAT Ultimate You cannot replace the stock 6922's with E188CC's in a CAT Ultimate. ECC88's (6DJ8's), E88CC's (6922's), or CCA's are OK. Do not use US 6DJ8's (like Sylvania or RCA, but not limited to these brands) or E188CC's or E288CC's. The manual clearly stat... | |
| Biggest Baddest Audio Cables Purist Audio Dominus. Definitely Anaconda-sized, liquid-filled, expensive and one of the cleanest and most dynamic cables around. | |
| "New" AP Virgo spk: Improved or Diminished ?? I heard them at a dealer with a variety of solid state and tube amplifiers and preamplifiers. I was not impressed. The bass is definitely weak and while it is certainly a good enough speaker to reveal things about the upstream equipment, I felt th... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century How many line inputs on the Supratek (either the Syrah or the Cortese)? | |
| Sellers Who "Didn't Know" or the Convenient Excuse Many, many companies have transferable warranties. Three additional ones that come to mind right off the top of my head are Plinius, Pass and Von Schweikert. | |
| NICE 6922 tube that is warm vs cool It is difficult to talk of how a tube "sounds" because the same tube sounds different in different circuits. Perhaps if you told us what product these tubes would be placed in, this would help us to give you a recommendation. Not knowing that, IMO... | |
| Hotrod your Hermes I have just bought on Audiogon an unmodded Hermes 24/192 without the Jena wire or Auricaps. Which brand/type of tubes and which power cord work best with the Kora? What are the preferred digital interconnects? I had bought Glreno's Audiomeca Enkia... | |
| Best Dac you ever heard Thank you, Craig. It is so much better when posters truly try to convey information rather than just throwing names out in cyberspace. I appreciate the extra time it takes for you to be specific. Thanks also to Aaronm for his extra effort to inclu... | |
| Best Dac you ever heard I think it is pointless to name dacs as the best without describing in detail what you hear from the dac which makes that particular dac the best you ever heard. Otherwise, others reading your post have no understanding of your listening biases an... | |
| Wanna hear your soundstage walk around ??? Sean, Just for interest's sake, what are the makes and models of the amplifier and speakers to which you refer in your original post which experienced the "cracking"?Thanks,Ray | |
| Do you approve of "How Stereophile Market itself"? Drtmth58:I'd just like to point out that if Stereophile had nothing to do with NCAC contacting Clueless and 3chihuahuas, the whole situation could have been avoided under your presumption of how the contact did occur if Stereophile did not sell it... | |
| Do you approve of "How Stereophile Market itself"? The biggest anchor around the neck of Stereophile is its lack of integrity. If it cherished the position of power and influence it unjustifiably continues to hold in the audiophile industry rather than trying to exploit it with manufacturers, read... |