rlawry
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| Cable Controversy IMO, there are numerous things to say about cables in general. First, absolutely no one, perhaps outside The Cable Company, has heard even a fraction of what must surely be hundreds, if not thousands, of brands and designs. I would include from ... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz brownie1946: Dang, I have been on this forum just so that I could use the word loom for the first time since I quit my high school job as loom weaver in a cotton mill. | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Benjie: Thanks for the information on your system and travails of using power conditioners. I have never had luck with them on power amps, even the very nice PS Audio jobs as they do seem to rob the system of dynamics and immediacy. I currently... | |
| Should I buy a Class A Amp. I agree with earlier posters that there are a number of factors affecting the sound of amps, including the speaker load, how loud you listen, and a vast number of factors in the amp design itself. And you have to remember that most Class AB amps ... | |
| Is it possible for the center image to drift from lp to lp? Another factor I forgot to mention was the recording itself, which might be found in the original master tape or could be a pressing issue. I have tried multiple copies of the same recording and the center image is skewed one way, and when subseq... | |
| Is it possible for the center image to drift from lp to lp? Mine does this and I have thought of several factors. Wear of the record, tubes' gain changing, system warmup, differences in tracking different parts of the record, volume control mistracking at various settings. I have a preamp with separate v... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz The nice thing, as usual, with HFC stuff is that even crappy recordings sound great. Having your rig sound good on the great recordings is easy. Doing this with ridiculously bad recordings is a much tougher act. I am even thinking of getting out... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz With all of the recent talk about the MC-0.5s and their great effect for the money, which I agree with, I forgot how much of an improvement it makes jumping up a level of cables. I just sold my U speaker cables to apply toward a purchase of UR sp... | |
| Beach Boys Pet Sounds by Analogue Productions I had a DCC version of Pet Sounds and liked the tubelike tonal balance but preferred a late 60s pressing as it sounded more detailed and dynamic. | |
| Best Pink Floyd recording CD or LP For absolutely one of the best-sounding rock recording of any type, get an original UK or German Harvest LP pressing of DSOTM. On Brain Damage the voices are eerily inside your head, one of the few recordings I have ever heard do this. Forget th... | |
| Tube Phono Stage with balls, and slam!! David: Since the sweet spot of tubes is voltage amplification, tubed phono stages/preamps that use small signal tubes for gain are probably the best bet for this application. Yes, a SS preamp might give a little more speed and bass extension, bu... | |
| Tube Phono Stage with balls, and slam!! Second the Manley Steelhead. I have had mine for about 7 years with no problems and definitely dynamic as all heck. It was way superior to my previous Aesthetix Rhea. If you want to improve on this, get some NOS 6DJ8/6922/7308 tubes for the gai... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz I have not yet reached a limit on MC-0.5 Waveguides when plugging them into an unused outlet which also feeds my HFC URH power conditioner. At one point I had just one waveguide plugged into this port and 5 plugged into the power conditioner outl... | |
| Amp or speaker first, upgrade You have gotten some good responses so far and I agree that the speakers will make the greatest difference in sound. One other thing to consider: single-driver speakers. I have had numerous multiple driver speakers including some mentioned abov... | |
| Albums you can listen too all the way through and it's all good I am old school and like many of the previous listings as I have a lot of these. However, my son recently was playing a newer artist whose music absolutely mesmerized me with their infectious melodies and pop hooks: Smith Westerns Soft Will. Hi... |