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| Do you Know a Trusted Seller of Chinese Vacuum Tubes? Grant Fidelity – Premium Vacuum Tubes (https://premiumvacuumtubes.com) is a seller which I trust for Linlai tubes. The Linlai Global Elites are very good vacuum tubes from China. Grant Fidelity provides testing and screening service beyond the tes... | |
| PSVANE Discussion & Impressions Thread @alightronics I sent a message to you with the Amazon order number. The order was from July | |
| Integrated S.E.T Amp and Bookshelf Speakers Recommendations I would second the Audio Note recommendations. For an integrated amp, one should also consider Triode Lab, the 2A3 EVO recently reviewed in Stereophile. Triode Lab makes excellent SET amps and SET integrated amps. Sure, I am biased because I am a... | |
| PSVANE Discussion & Impressions Thread I recently purchased Psvane Horizon 12BH7 from Amazon. At $58.99 for a pair, the price was right. They arrived in a lightly bubbled envelope with no additional packaging other than the Psvane boxes they came in. These tubres should not just be sho... | |
| Ethernet Switch Recommendations Please I agree that the best move is to go back to Ansuz. Earlier this year Ansuz updated their Powerswitch lines to the 3 series-generation , so the D3 available now is better than the D2. I have the Ansuz A3 and am very happy with it. Ansuz switches (a... | |
| New DAC with streamer A few months ago, I bought a Bricasti M1 Series II. The built-in network card option was a major consideration that had me eliminate some other stellar DACs from consideration, if they didn't stream. I am extremely happy with the Bricasti M1 Serie... | |
| BEST CD TRANSPORT It appears that TEAC has recently released the VRDS 701TB CD Transport. The US MSRP is ~$2700. Has anyone heard this TEAC transport? I'm interested in how this compares sonically to the Jays Audio CDT2 Mk3, and the CEC TL5. | |
| Audio Research Reference 5 SE Preamps For Sale? I had a good laugh after reading the Audio Research Ref 6 description. "Further improvements include a more grainless presentation...". More grainless?Either it has grain or it is grainless. Not a big deal, but just funny. | |
| ARC tube CD players - Burn in Yashu,It can be confusing with Russian vacuum tube manufacturers. SED (Svetlana Eletron Devices)is another Russian company which bought the name, and makes a 6550C. If there is no Winged C, that isn't the one you want. The =C= SED (Winged C) logo ... | |
| ARC tube CD players - Burn in About 3 months ago, I purchased an ARC CD8, which ought to be similar to the CD9. The paperwork that came with the CD8 mentioned that break-in should take up to 600 hours. So far, I have about 180-200 hours of music played on it. I haven't experie... | |
| Power Cables diminishing returns Power cables can be the trickiest upgrade of all. Throwing money at a power cable can be a recipe for disaster, if judging by price alone and not hearing with particular components in your system. As power cords can often make the sound better, th... | |
| Redbook Digital Can Sound Great -- On Occassion Redbook CD is often the only format available for many recordings. As others have mentioned, the recording quality can vary from poor to excellent. What is disheartening is that so many previous good analog recordings had poor digital transfers an... | |
| Kubala Sosna Cables - Reality Check I recently obtained a Kubala Sosna Expression Power Cord. My impressions are that, in its favor, it is a big tone cable with excellent tonal color. A lot of music assisted by the Kubala Sosna Expression will be involving because smaller musical im... |