rcronk
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| Mid-fi tube vs high-end SS I currently run a Peachtree Grand x-1 hybrid intergrated amp with 440 watts per channel of class D solid state design. This unit, like so many others today, have a built in pre-amp that is 'tubed'. Peachtree has been a leader in making Class D a... | |
| Hi-end audio is a big zero I think the most difficult to project is the speakers. My other components are highly adaptable (Peachtree Grand X-1 hybrid integrated with Sabre DAC on board) and turntables and other digital sources are easy to blend. But not speakers. And th... | |
| To Buy or to DIY, here is my question OK! DIY! I have now rebuilt a half dozen serious pairs of speakers. From the 4 foot high towers by 1970s Bose Corporation to AR-3s and a pair of Advent's, both by Henry Kloss. There are others that I call my 'Zombie' line as all are really fin... | |
| What are your favorite recordings that sound best to you? I just had a 45 year old Commander Cody & the Lost Planet Airmen on my turntable that I bought new and have played many many times. 'Momma Hated Deisels So Bad' sounds really great. Then again Zappa's, "Feeding The Monkeys at Ma Maison" is... | |
| I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s. The earlier 'catagories' rattled off by some self appionted judge who would only claim "classical music" leaves important questions unanswered: When the London Symphony Orchestra or the Frankfurt Ensemble or Pierre Boulet in Paris play Frank Zapp... | |
| Everybody’s Top 5 - Vinyl I am glad to see Eric Clapton on rj's list. This pathetic excuse for a human being (date rape/dead kids falling out windows) Now his preaching anti-vaxism is ghastly especially after Clapton rushed to get his shots! This is good because now I do... | |
| Class D amps seem poised to take over. Then what? Nothing in the audio world from the 1950s is much more than an antique. The 2020 something tech changes everything, including the functionality of Class D amplification. Earlier in discussion someone suggested that putting a tubed pre-amp in fro... | |
| The Absurdity of it All Spoken like a young fella! Full of wrong science. On average we lose the edge with time, but there are those who hear perfectly well into very old age. Just as some are deaf from birth, some are spared. The second important feature mentioned e... | |
| My NAD 3020 D proves your Class D tropes are wrong For a serious 'home' listener on a budget this discussion becomes a little prissy. The ranges of difference make very little in a normal home's rooms and rooms under 16' x 16'. The higher ranges of my amplifiers have never even gotten close to m... | |
| VINYL SUCKS! YOGIBOY MUST BE DEAF. OR HE KNOWS SOMETHIING ABOUT SUCKING THAT I MISSED DROPPING A NEEDLE ON A PROPER TURNTBLE AND LOVING THE TUNES. SUCK INDEED! | |
| Worst Concerts You Have Attended ?? So many candidates for worst of the worst. I see with many posts already in that nobody named Zappa & the Mothers! Of course, how could anybody who ever saw Zappa live say that?! Only "awesome" when that meant 'full-of-awe'. In 1999 Santana... | |
| Why No Love For Peachtree Audio? I purchased a new Grand X-1 Hybrid 3 years ago directly from Peachtree as it had been discontinued. Lucky to get one and have been happy with it ever since. When new in my systems it blew me away with more of everything from Beefheart's, "Crazy ... | |
| How old are you? 73...As we age our brain continues to process music even if suffering from advanced forms of functional brain diseases. Altzhiemer's studies show the hearing centers in the brain are the last to go! So if your ears work you may find, as I have, ... | |
| Easily the best and most significant sonic tweak one could ever make! If you are anything like me, and I know I am, maybe some of us should be talking to a shrink! | |
| Audiophile demographics? Nice try Duke! Regardless of gear and bigger and all the macho talk in these tag-ons there is one thing not one man has said about 'watching women or listening to music with women'...in my 70-something years I have never ever even seen a woman ... |