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| Sonic Frontiers Line 3 - Get the SE Upgrade? I better chime in here, I owned a Line 3 running it on NOS tubes for the outputs....had it about 3 years, liked it enough to trade in on the 3SE, and I HEARD improvements in every area......and believe me I knew the Line 3 well, lots of hours........ | |
| New Mcintosh products at CES??? I saw photos somewhere,on the internet.... looked like possibly a new speaker design, but I haven't kept up, maybe it has been out awhile. Rather than a separate tweeter tower, like some of their earlier models, this was integrated with vertical c... | |
| Tri-amp with stereo SS on bottom / tube monos top I've done this quite successfully, in numerous setups, sometimes the amps had variable outputs......I would tune by ear, then fine tune with a rented spectrum analyzer to get it perfectly balanced, surprisingly I did pretty good by ear. A lot a cl... | |
| What's your favorite instrument to listen to.... Strings, as my system improved, especially after getting into tubes & ribbons, acoustic string music, classical, jazz, BG, New Acoustic, rock unplugged.....whatever genre. | |
| Any Jerry Douglas fans? Try to find a CD called skip, Hop & Wobble by Jerry Douglas, Russ Barenberg, and Edgar Meyer on Sugar Hill, all instrumental......incredible trio playing, great fidelity. Jerry Douglas is the best dobro player on the planet..... other interest... | |
| tube preamps Sonic Frontiers preamps are a good value ...great parts & build quality.......would probably tame your harshness a bit, and hey, they have sounded great in my rig, I went from a Line 3 to a 3SE. I used to have a levinson amp, but now have BAT ... | |
| NOS Tubes--Are they worth it? or accurate? Tailoring your systems sound by changing tubes can be very rewarding, although I've relied on experts for tube recommendations and have only purchased tubes from reputable dealers. I think they are probably getting better at NEW tubes than several... | |
| any personal experience with bybee filters? There was just a thread on outboard bybees a week or so ago, I personally don't have them built into components, but my rig is seriously bybee-ed. Big time positive tweak for my system. | |
| Reaction to : Bedini-Ultra Clarifier II I hear definite results, more so on frequently played but untreated CD's. than on brand new ones. Try doing it 3 times, once label up, then again label down and then again label up. Smoothed out the highs, and blackened the background in my system... | |
| Bybee quantum filters for speakers What TWL said!I found even more improvement adding a few interconnect filters to the Ultra speaker filters I had purchased first, I'm running Cardas balanced Golden Ref interconnects as well as speaker wire. Incredibly black background allowing mi... | |
| Any fans of Django Reinhardt For Grappelli I like one called young Django (hard to find)it has Larry Coryell, Philip Catherine and Niels Orsted Pederson......There is one live with David Grisman, a mandolin master, that is good, in fact a Grisman CD titled Hot Dawg, has some ... | |
| I don't understand Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" Brian's response kinda nailed it, intellectually, the playing in modes thing was new to jazz. Kinda Blue was from 58 or 59 though..you might actually find the earlier stuff a bit more to your liking, albums like Workin', Cookin' Steamin', Relaxin'... | |
| Recommendation for guitar duo CD Tony Rice & John Carlini "River Suite for Two guitars" onSugar Hill SHCD-3837 Fantastic music from two pioneers of the acoustic music scene. This is highly recommended!!! | |
| Review: Genesis Technologies G-201 Speaker Rives,These already had upgraded ribbons when I got them, so I didn't have the opportunity to compare. I recall seeing quite a few Genesis speakers advertised on Audiogon with the upgrade, this was a few years back, mostly dealers keeping their st... | |
| Review: Genesis Technologies G-201 Speaker I have tweaked Genesis II's, they look like mini 1.1's. Mine have been upgraded to the last version ribbons and have upgraded wiring. The woofers are like the 1.1's, in separate towers and are now running on the last version of the bass amp and wi... |