retiredfarmer
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| Canary Audio Tube amps A pair of ca 160 mono blocks and a ca 801 l and ca801p. They will drive just about any speaker. They have the rich tube beauty. The preamp is one of the best I have ever listened to. You will enjoy your time with your canary. Remember though y... | |
| Your greatest high end audio purchase!!! A set of valvo 6922 gold pin tubes. | |
| Would you buy a pair of speakers by just looking at the measured freq. response? I will tell you a great way to pick a speaker. Look for Canadian built speakers that were designed in the national research council s anecchoic chamber and decide if you want to buy a God awful speaker or not. If you want an awful speaker pick ... | |
| He spent his life building a $1 million stereo. The real cost was unfathomable. Not sure why it is sad that he didn't get all his money back. What do you think people get back who's hobby was drinking and smoking? | |
| Integrateds: Luxman vs. Ayre? @ghdprentice Would the old word for sparkle be bright? There has been a trend in hifi the last number of years in my opinion towards brightness in the equipment. | |
| Eliminated my preamp with amazing results I have a different twist on this subject and I mean no harm by my comments. In the past I listened to the McCormack line lots as I was thinking about upgrading to it. Within there line I personally believe you have there best amp in the .5... | |
| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? Another thing of huge importance is the quality of the recording. Or of the lp, cd, radio broadcase. | |
| Experiences With Costly Balanced XLR Interconnects Above $3,000 I used audio questions lapis power to pre for a number of years. After I went to transparent reference there was a slight hardness that disappeared that I never really knew about til it was gone. I like the newer generations better in there li... | |
| Is There Just One Single Album That Does It For You, Completely? Just One. A tutorial on boat building. | |
| Aggrivated tinnitus from speakers? You have what they used to call a bright system. Brightness is elevated by hard walls. Glass and brick. Some wire also leads to more high frequency output. Interesting you find the streaming worse than cd or lp. That tells you your streamer i... | |
| Help me spend $100,000 on a new system Lol personally I would look at top shelf used equipment. 100k will get you some of the best in the used market. Personally a set of canary grand reference monoblocks 8 300b tubes in each one plus there top dog 4 box preamplifier. Likely ke... | |
| What was the first power cable that you noticed a difference in the sound? Well I had a system that just didn't play bass I changed the receptacle s to the 20 amp lines to the amps. Wow I got a bunch of bass. I am wondering if you cannot tell much difference because you have a problem farther up the line. If you d... | |
| What speaker could safely be ordered without hearing it first? None of them. | |
| What speaker could safely be ordered without hearing it first? None of them. | |
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