sokogear
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| Listening to music I don’t particularly like If I don’t like it, I won’t buy it. If I have it and no longer enjoy it, I don’t play it no matter how good it sounds. Thankfully, that only has happened on about 5% of my records. I sometimes wonder what the hell I was thinking when I bought it. ... | |
| Best Phono You've Heard Under $2200 Not to turn this into a cartridge discussion, but part of the reason I have a van den Hul MC One Special cartridge is the fact that he also makes excellent phono stages (and the cartridge is very natural, clean and transparent sounding with a very... | |
| Best Phono You've Heard Under $2200 Before making your final decision you may want to figure out your long term cartridge plan. More than any other link in the stereo signal chain, the cart-phono stage synergy is most important (not that others aren't critical). For example, if you ... | |
| Best Phono You've Heard Under $2200 For under $2200, the Sutherland Insight with LPS is excellent and you'll have a few bucks left over for records. Extremely quiet and adjustable in case you decide to go for a MC cartridge. No extra circuitry, no on/off switch. Ron is a very nice, ... | |
| Gamut Lobster Chair Just replaced my Ekornes Stressless chair with another one. After 15 years the leather started to finally get worn looking. They still make the exact same chair (higher price of course)! I had been through 3 other brands, some pretty expensive b... | |
| One big reason why brick and mortar high end audio dealers struggle. Whenever I am dealing with a local store, I always deal with the owner so there is never any commission issues. If I am seriously looking at something, I will make sure they can have it set up when I get there to save time. If they are a one perso... | |
| Vinylistas and Tubers - One and the same? @ghdprentice - I think you are in the minority in terms of not being biased towards the technology among posters here (excluding @audition_audio . I guess when it comes to cost/value in tubes vs. SS it depends on the price point and perhaps at you... | |
| Vinylistas and Tubers - One and the same? So everybody looks at the technology primarily, not the individual component's characteristics when it comes to tubes vs. solid state? I think the box matters more than the technology. Plenty of great SS out there and crappy tubes. I agree that d... | |
| Tube Power vs Solid State Power It's not 20 watts on a tube amp vs. on a SS amp. It's 20 watts on any amp vs any other amp. Watts per channel is measured under certain conditions which can be varied to get to the desired marketing result of a spec.You need to listen to the amps ... | |
| Top 5 Reaons to NOT BUY A TURNTABLE. I liked the video and think it is right on the money on all points. I feel sorry for him that he listens to such a small percentage of his collection. They are wasting space. I started buying records 40+ years ago, and listen to 90%+ of them at le... | |
| Tube vs solid state (with all apologies) @pauly - I am just going by what I have heard from dealers who sell both SS and tube equipment and many contributors to this forum, and from my brother in law who has had to replace tubes on multiple occasions because of problems in addition to ha... | |
| Tube vs solid state (with all apologies) Of course there is tremendous SQ difference among SS amps, just as with tubes, just that tubes will be substantially more expensive for a similar SQ.I have no problem with tinkerers - I can't even fix my bicycle. | |
| Tube vs solid state (with all apologies) @smolder - so if new tube amps use new tubes because they can't get a quantity large enough to standardize a model design with old stock, that further adds to the cost and complicates things as you need to shop for tubes as well.All the more reinf... | |
| Tube vs solid state (with all apologies) @tvad - then why do tubes claim certain life expectancy? | |
| Tube vs solid state (with all apologies) @pauly - you definitely are the exception. Everyone I hear from talks about replacing tubes after some cycle time depending on the amp, environment, usage, volume, etc. You must have some super tubes! Or maybe they are replacing them because of s... |