roberjerman
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| Best Analog for $10K +1 Agrippa! You have the best recommendation here! | |
| Warm up time for amps If you use it every day - and leave it on all the time - it should be ready to go when you play some music! I do the same with my SS gear (class AB). Hot-running class A and tube gear does benefit from a bit of warm-up before listening - and shoul... | |
| SUT's -Looking for one with some meat on the bones Forget the SUT. Sell the D7's and get a pair of Ohm Walsh 2000's. Room-filling, 3-D sound with solid bass! $2800 a pair. I own a pair of older Walsh's and they do indeed deliver the "magic"! | |
| Do people know what they are missing? Only a minority has ever cared about sound quality! Most people have always thought that spending, say, $200 on a stereo system as extravagant! So table radios and department store consoles were common in most homes. Only the hi-fi geeks and the w... | |
| Matching Gear matter to you? NO! Though I suppose I could get a Quad preamp to go with the four Quad amps (303,405, 50 mono pair) that I have on hand for my 57's! | |
| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? Here rotational mass is king! The inertial force of a heavy platter damps out any speed variation from belt flex. I've yet to see a direct-drive TT with a platter as heavy as on the Ariston/Linn TT's! | |
| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? My Ariston and Linn TT's don't suffer from stylus drag. Though they both have quite heavy platters! Kilograms vrs. milligrams! | |
| Please answer for dummies: Any way to increase power from a Chinese tube amp? There is no way to get more watts/volts out of your Ch*nese tube amp. Of course you could ditch the Mistrals and get a pair of Altec Valencia's (owned a pair myself!). But these would be out of your budget. | |
| Please answer for dummies: Any way to increase power from a Chinese tube amp? More horsepower (watts/voltage) needed for those low-sensitivity Mistrals! Look for a used NAD or Proton integrated amp. They can often be found for not much money! I paid $50 for my Proton - and sounds as good as any four-figure amp. Good enginee... | |
| Ginger Baker passes away So sad to learn this! I always thought of Ginger as indestructible! Just recently I was listening to the first CD transfer of Fresh Cream - still sounds great! | |
| And yet another of our heroes passes into the night, RIP Ginger Baker! I have Fresh Cream in the CD player! Great stuff! | |
| And yet another of our heroes passes into the night, RIP Ginger Baker! I have Fresh Cream in the CD player! Great stuff! | |
| iTiunes Music Files If your files are all MP3s then you are stuck with an inferior format! Can't make a silk purse out of ... ! | |
| New school Or old School DAC Or Cd player? If you can get some older DACs so cheaply go for it! | |
| Tube Failure question Keep the Bryston preamp! I have one in use right now. Excellent SQ! Don't fall for the false belief that only tube circuits are "musical"! |