rcprince
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| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE Well spoken, mitch22. Amen. | |
| Evening Classical Music; listening for relaxation If you subscribe to the Idagio or Primephonic classical streaming services, they have curated playlists that give you a great sampling of music and composers that you may never have heard of for all different moods, including relaxation and medita... | |
| Melos repair I don't know personally of anyone, but I believe that the man behind the Laufer Teknik Memory Player (Mark Porzilli) was the designer of the Melos electronics. It's a long shot, but you might try to contact Sam Laufer at Laufer Tekniks to see if ... | |
| Mahler vs. Strauss I have not really noticed what you're obviously hearing. I think newbee's possible explanation makes a lot of sense to me. | |
| Opinions on Meitner MTR-101 Amps??? $20 for MTR 101s? Bargain of the Century! | |
| Nearfield Acoustics Pipedreams I have heard them with tubes (a Melos amplifier that didn't blow up) and they sounded great. Had I owned them I would have used Lamm ML 1.1s, and I'm sure they would have worked, I don't think they were that tough a load to drive at all. I'm als... | |
| Reference Recordings (The Label) The entire series is outstanding; I particularly like the Shostakovich and their Strauss recordings.. | |
| Better/best fullrange nearfield speakers? Despite their size, the (aptly named) Nearfield Acoustics Pipedreams work extremely well in nearfield listening. I sat three feet from them and never heard any of the drivers, just a huge, deep soundstage | |
| Favorite Guitar Solo Agree that there are too many to choose one, but two that come to mind to me are David Gilmour's solo in Pimk Floyd's Comfortably Numb and Jeff Beck in People Get Ready with Rod Stewart.. | |
| Anyone own 200iq and prefer kt150 over kt88 Can't help on the first question, I just use KT88s in my Phi 200 and am happy with them so I'm not trying any other output tubes (you could try getting some different input tubes, I like NOS RCAs for their richness, but you could get NOS Sylvanias... | |
| I want a new to me CD player but need to have HDCD decoding capability Not sure what your budget is, but there’s a Spectral unit which decodes HDCD for sale on this site from The Music Room (no affiliation). I believe that the Spectral player was designed in part by Keith Johnson, who did the HDCD recordings for Refe... | |
| Organ CDs with really deep bass That Fox recording is a lot of fun, and it does have a good deal of bass. I found the CD to be a little dry, but the D2D (I have the Crystal Clear) is pretty good, even though it has a few wrong notes in it that were cleaned up on the CD. Fox wa... | |
| Owners of Duntech Crown Prince still out there? I had a pair of the original Crown Princes with the veneer (which made it a Princess); the list price back in 1987 when I got them was $7,700US, I believe. The Crown Prince without the veneer was less, maybe between $6,000 and $6,500 (?). It had... | |
| Tube Dealers 2021 +1 on Andy Bouwman at Vintage Tube Services. His prices reflect the lengths he goes to testing the tubes andmaking sure you have the real tubes you want. Tough to reach but I believe he is worth the trouble. | |
| Amperex "Bugle Boy" tube compatibility Agree with the above, don't use a 12AX7 type in a 6DJ8 circuit. Amperex made wonderful Bugle Boy 6DJ8s, I would look for them. |