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| Dipping toes in tube preamp pool!! Jim, I was in your shoes some 15 years ago. I had a fair solid state setup, but wanted something more. I explored tube preamps and opted for a used Audible Illusions line-stage preamp, cost $500 bucks. When plugged in I was ASTONISHED @ the improv... | |
| What is your most beautiful component? I’m pretty partial to my Audible Illusions L3B preamp, both inside and out. Sounds pretty good too‼️👨⚕️ | |
| Best bourbon? Elijah Craig, hands down, as aged as you can afford‼️👨⚕️ | |
| Best bargain you've ever missed out I didn’t miss mine. I went to an estate sale @ 4:30 pm. Last item left was a JBL Metregon. Sellers did not know what it was. Bought for $100. I & a friend brought it home crosswise on my MGB. It even had the JBL Amplifier built in... didn’t wo... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music All the music from Shindler’s List by John Williams! Almost painful to listen too. | |
| Which is the best audio magazine? The Absolute Sound. Consistently excellent. I don’t know how they can publish for the yearly rate! | |
| Best drink while listening to your rig? Elijah Craig on ice, hard to beat‼️ | |
| BEST UPGRADE regardless of cost? For me moving from solid state preamp to tube preamp. Next was the move to Martin-Logan speakers (aerius’) | |
| Hotel Room Confessions - Best Sound at a Show? Best speaker I ever heard in a hotel room was a JBL Hartsfield (monaural) sound from Vinal record played on a Rek-O-kut turntable thru a MacIntosh Amp. Everyone in the room were mesmerized. And, amazingly, the room was not touting the playing equi... | |
| Budget Tube Amp (newbie) Lots of good advice here. Try to learn from it. In tube sound, the warmth you like is supplied most by a tube preamp. So you could get a tube preamp into Solid state amp (there are a lot of them, used available) I’d think of some of the Pass desi... | |
| Most annoying song, period. Ravel’s Bolero by anyone...by the end I want to scream💥🤪 | |
| Would an Audioquest Cobalt feed my integrated amp without clipping? Ontodva: I run my laptop thru a Jitterbug-Red Dragonfly into an Audible Illusions L3B preamp to my CJ Premier 11a......and it sounds GREAT! No clipping. Go for the Cobalt! | |
| Audioquest Jitterbug Hi Limo: I too use a jitterbug & Dragonfly Red between my laptop & Pre-amp. I think it sounds great. I mostly use the laptop to stream Pandora, although I have some 1500 CD’s ripped to iTunes, they sound great as well. My pre-amp is an Aud... | |
| New to the two channel world - Advice needed on preamp Loo looks like you have a credible system. Thinking tubes or solid state? You might try adding a tube pre-amp. I have an Audible Illusions L3B and love it. Check out my other posts under “Rongold” | |
| How many of you believe in MQA? Is ‘believing’ in MQA anything like ‘believing’ in God? Asking for a friend. |