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| 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... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz I have an Essence power amp and preamp that use a power cord with a custom round military connector, so I cannot use an HFC power cord with these. They use a power cord with electronics and are called power bridges, which I plug into my HFC URH p... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz There are two general types of posters on most online forums: those who are interested in advancing current knowledge, and those who undermine current knowledge with ulterior selfish motives. When the latter types begin dominating forums is whe... | |
| I'm happy but I want more, more, more bill10907: I was on the merry-go-round myself for about 40 years. I tried at least 10 power amps, both tubed and solid-state, 5 preamps, who knows how many speakers, some up to $42K with ion tweeters and spherical horn midrange, 3 turntables, 2 ... | |
| Austrailian rock and roll Love Flash and the Pan. I highly recommend their self-titled first album and Lights in the Night. Definitely a sound that few others, if any, had, especially the barrel-rolling piano and organ. | |
| Obscure bands Been listening to all of the British band Charlie's albums. A criminally underrated band that I loved back in the day and still.China Crisis just released a new album last year, "Autumn in the Neighborhood". If you loved their previous work you ... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Glad to see the references to Golden Earring's Radar Love. One of my favorite albums back in the day and still.Listening to the British band Charlie, from first (Fantasy Girls) to last, although later albums are not my favorites, but love No Seco... |