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| No Improvement With Transparent Reference RCA Interconnects For Naim NDX 2 Streamer Return those $3200 ICs and get your money back! Put the old ICs back in place! Don't fall for the "burn-in" scam! No cable is worth that kind of money! The whole wire business is built upon fraud! "The Emperor's new clothes" is the philosophy at w... | |
| Most organic / real / analogue sounding DAC (ideally with Volume Control) for $1500?????? People that claim a R2R DAC sounds better than a DeltaSigma are deluded! I personally find them indistinguishable! Either type can be made to work fine! It's the implementation (input stage, power supply, output stage) that is most important! | |
| So what ever happened to Kinki Studio??? Now if Kinki made the cover of Stereophile ... | |
| Looking for tonearm inspiration Denon DA-301 (a better choice for mc cartridges than the DA-401). Fidelity Research FR29 and FR54 (great for mc cartridges). I have all these in my collection of tonearms. | |
| Best Rock Song Ever! Lou Reed's Walk On The Wild Side. Mott The Hooples' All The Young Dudes | |
| Thorens TD-125 MK1 with SME 3009 I have one with a Rega RB300 arm. I've seen the SME 3009 arms selling for $500+ alone! That's a very good price for an excellent TT/arm! | |
| SET 45 and their (real) required speaker efficiency I have three SE amps: a 45, a 2A3 and a 6BG6. 1.75, 3.5 and 6 watts respectively. And a pair of Heresy's. The 6BG6 has enough (barely) to work. The other two are only good for headphones. | |
| signs that tubes need to be replaced When the silver getter flashes start turning brown at the edges! Eventually all the silver will turn to brown. That is the sign of "old age" - even though the tube will still work! | |
| Where to buy decent 845 and 211 tubes? If you can't afford vintage 211's or 845's then you will have to take your chances with current production cheap Ch*nese! I wouldn't! | |
| Where to buy decent 845 and 211 tubes? Most eBay sellers of vintage tubes are honest! I have never had any problems with my purchases! | |
| SET 45 and their (real) required speaker efficiency I bought a pair of vintage Heresy's (100 db/1 meter) to use with it. You will need something similar to make use of all the 1.75 watts of a single 45! | |
| SET 45 and their (real) required speaker efficiency I have a SET 45 (1.75 wpc). Built by Will Vincent on a Dynaco ST70 chassis. It has only 5 tubes total: a 5V4 rectifier, two 6C6 pentodes as input tubes and two 45’s ouputs. Encron output transformers. Will did a beautiful job of powder coating the... | |
| Good vintage alternatives, or, better floor spkrs vs. say, Kilipsch Heresey types? DCM Time Windows 1A's kill any Klipsch ever made! I am now on pair number 3! Their measurements in the time domain equal those of the venerable Quad 57's! Remarkable performance and sound quality from a not-too-expensive two-way ported floor-stand... | |
| 6550 Replacement Tube for ARC Reference 6 That 6550 is used as a regulator in the power supply. Any old 6550 will do! As the French Chef says "No diffawrance". People that claim that one 6550 sounds better than another in the power supply are either misinformed or delusional! There is no ... | |
| What are the sexiest components ever made? My Philips portable DVD player with and adult DVD! Such a cool device! |