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| best tube combo for Cary 805c monos NOS 845 tubes are very difficult to find, RCA are probably at the top of the list but are quite expensive, 800-1000.00 per pair or more.In the 805 the 300B is the driver tube and in my experience the current production Western Electric are the bes... | |
| Best Joni Mitchel Album As a long time Joni Mitchell fan ( I first saw her in 1967) it's always hard to pick the "Best" album but I find myself playing "Hejira" more than the rest. It came out in 1976 and was recorded quite well, as a matter of fact I use two tracks, Son... | |
| EL 34 based amplifier recommendations I would look at the Cary CAD 280SA(V12, V12i or V12r versions) they are 100 watts per channel and use 6 pairs of EL 34 output tubes. A visually beautiful and sounding amplifier . | |
| Audiomeca vs. Audio Aero It took about 200 hours in my system for the Audiomecca to sound its best. As far as warmer or more detailed I found them very similiar but in my system, the Audiomecca edged the Aero in detail, more analog if you will. I should say that the diffe... | |
| Audiomeca vs. Audio Aero I had the chance to audition both the Aero and Mephisto 11.X. You are correct they do share the same chips(dac). I found both of them exceptional sounding one box players. A liquid midrange, extended highs and solid bass. I researched threads here... | |
| Jimmy Smith I agree with the above, the Blue Note lps fom the 1950s and 60s are exceptional. I would also recommend "Back At The Chicken Shack", "The Sermon", "Prayer Meeting" and two of my all time favorites with Stanley Turrentine, Grady Tate and Kenny Burr... | |
| Should I leave my SF Line 3 SE on standby? I have a very similar situation, I leave my system off all week and turn it on Friday and leave it on until Sunday night. | |
| Other classifieds I may use to sell my cd player. www.audioshopper.com and the newsgroup rec.audio.marketplace. | |
| Has anyone used the VPI SDS with a PS Audio P-600? It is my understanding that you can plug the SDS into the P600 but only at 60hz and not with the Multiwave settings. I have my VPI SDS plugged into the wall and use the P600 for my other equipment. | |
| Why do Japanese-pressed CDs sound better? I think one of the reasons they sound better is that Japanese runs are usually smaller than US pressings. In other words, in the US they may run 100,000 cds of the new Sting cd and in Japan they may run 1000, less room for mistakes. Also a big fac... | |
| Power conditioner for Sonic Frontiers amp I have a pair of Sonic Fronters SPM 160 Monoblocks and I connected them to a PS Audio P-600 and a Tice power line conditioner and found that both conditioners limited the high end and somewhat compressed the music(the Tice more than the PS Audio).... | |
| Cary Amps Using EL-34's Cary V12i monoblocks use EL-34. | |
| Eva Cassidy Catalog Hi Newbee, always enjoy your post. Yes I have the album with Chuck Brown, really enjoy it. The American Tune cd is very much in the same vein of her others, very diverse collections of music sung wonderfully. She sings the Beatles, Duke Ellington,... | |
| synergy ii or aleph p or ????? I have a Jeff Rowland Model 10 amplifier and used a Synergy 11i for awhile but found it too analytical(read dry and not musical) in my system. I also had an older passive preamp from Placette Audio and while the sound was more transparent than the... | |
| Sam Phillips Sam Phillips will always be remembered as the man who signed Elvis to Sun Records and the man who sold his contract to RCA. He had quite a roster for awhile, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbision, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and many more. He had a ear for ... |