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| Paco De Lucia R.I.P. Thank you for posting this. Discovering his music was an important part of my education about a world I'd known nothing about previously. I know flamenco traditionalists had issues with his modernization of the genre but if you have even a slight ... | |
| Best EL34 reissue? Yes, the blue glass is just for the look, which has always seemed crazy to me. The clear tubes with the orange glow are part of the fun of having a tube amp. One of my friends calls it "the electronic fireplace." | |
| Cary SLI-80 capacitor problem questions Ltodd - thanks for the response. Yes, your and other recommendation for the V-caps were pretty persuasive and I was tempted to do the upgrade myself using them. I opted to send the amp to a Cary dealer I'd dealt with before and whom I trust. He's ... | |
| Best EL34 reissue? A great alternative to consider is the reissue Genelex Gold Lion KT-77. With most amps it is a drop-in replacement for EL34s with the characteristics that people love about EL34s. Do a search on audioasylum.com for some informed opinions.I've used... | |
| Cary SLI-80 capacitor problem questions RadniCan you elaborate on why you recommend the Jensen caps rather than Cardas? Everything I've heard from other owners and the dealers I've contacted has been that the Jensen caps are good sounding but very unreliable whereas I've seen nothing bu... | |
| Cary SLI-80 capacitor problem questions Many thanks to all of you for taking the time to give me the benefit of your technical expertise and sometimes hard-won experience. I learned a lot that has helped me get to a tentative decision about how to deal with the amp problem.I had a great... | |
| Cary SLI-80 capacitor problem questions Peter - thanks for your kind offer. From what I've been able to determine with some online research the Jensen caps are .22uF 1000V but I will retrieve the amp tomorrow, open it up and get the numbers off the caps.Czbbcl - yes, thanks, I agree wit... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? -Photon46 - I absolutely agree with your premise that intellectual curiosity can lead to an appreciation and even affection for music that you've been either unfamiliar with or thought you would never like.And for me there is an element to that pr... | |
| Should I trust movers with my equipment? I moved cross-country a year ago and carried all my valuable audio equipment in the back of my car. Considering the considerable damage done to some of my household furniture I'm very glad I didn't trust the audio gear to the movers. Even having i... | |
| Q How to Universal Remote with Musical Fidelity? The Logitech Harmony universal remotes should do it for you. According to their device database they do support the Musical Fidelity A5 CD player, meaning you would buy one of their remotes, connect it to your computer with a mini USB cable and do... | |
| How are music downloads 'upsampled'? -Hi-endThere's no universal definition of 'top quality'. The claim might make some sense if it were qualified by saying it's the best quality you can get at a given file size and bit rate but even then you'd never get universal agreement on that.E... | |
| How are music downloads 'upsampled'? Arh is correct, there is no sonic advantage in converting from an iTunes native file to Apple Lossless. When the data was stripped away to create a smaller file there is no way to get back the original fidelity by converting to a different format ... | |
| How To Get The Best Sound From Pandora & Rhapsody? Cal3713 - I think that's a pretty fair summary.But there's no getting around the reality that the law of diminishing returns applies to DACs. I own three, a $100 Audioengine D1 in my garage/workshop, a $300 Musical Fidelity VDAC in my office and a... | |
| How To Get The Best Sound From Pandora & Rhapsody? Great responses, Mitch4t. If all of us had waited until we could afford a system that would pass muster with some of the people on this forum we would never have listened to music at all.In 1957 my "reference" system was a Sylvania transistor radi... | |
| How To Get The Best Sound From Pandora & Rhapsody? Mitch4t - Sorry, I've never used Rhapsody and can't compare their catalog to Mog.com's. None of the online streaming sites have everything you might want to hear. Fortunately, you don't have to choose just one. It's exploring the music that's impo... |