stevecham
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| EL 34 vs. KT 88 ---- What's the difference? The New Sensor Mullard EL34 or JJ Tesla EL34L are both current, affordable and sound great with the 302B. I prefer the Mullard over the JJ, but not by much. | |
| music to wake up vandy 5a subs Pole 1 and 2, this will definitely wake those subs up. Also Pat Metheny, The Way Up. | |
| Oregon Audiophiles... In Eugene. Bradford's is an excellent store. | |
| Organ CDs with really deep bass Montreal Symphony Orchestra's version of Holst's The Planets conducted by Charles Dutoit. Saurn has the fundamental organ pedal notes that must be hovering in the 16 Hz and 32 Hz range recorded at substantial level. | |
| whats your idea of loud music. Depends I guess, on the mood I'm in. There are times after work when I sit down in front of the system, to answer email, with a record on the table, and my hearing becomes very sensitive, such that "loud," is no more than 70 dB average SPL.Other t... | |
| Thiel CS 1.6 vs ProAc vs ? Vandersteen 2Ce Signature or 3a Signature. Please audition these before purchasing anything else. They will provide all you seek from your description. | |
| Calling on Vandersteen 5a owners Bruce at least stick with time and phase correct if you have to move away from Vandersteeen. Thiel has great looking cabinets. Is size also part the issue here? Perhaps their 2.4 could work? | |
| Tube or SS for Vocals/Strings I have both an all tube system and a solid state system. For the music you are mostly listening to tubes will the ticket to sustained listening enjoyment. EL34 should be added to the list of sweet sounding tubes. | |
| Vandersteen 2Ce with Jolida 302B? Shoe: Eugene is a wonderful city and for me it is a return. I did my posdoc here at U of O back in the early 90s. I left in 97, went to Montreal for a couple of years and then to the Bay Area only to return with an excellent job offer here. Yeah t... | |
| Recommendations to "Professional" Reviewers? I have shared respect for Michael Fremer in the past but I think I am changing my view; recently I just received the latest catalog from Music Direct...go look at the phono pre section alone. All those accolades from Mikey make me shudder when I s... | |
| Criteria for a phono stage? Ledzep & Gadfly, I too have had the Jolida JD9 for about four months now and really enjoy this in all Jolida tube based system 100CDP, Tuner and 302B integrated. I am using it with a Music Hall MM7. What a great tube stage phono pre for the $$... | |
| Gentle Giant Remasters I picked up Free Hand and Interview. Both sound quite good, especially Free Hand but my original copy that I purchased in 1975 on vinyl still sounds better. The live extra track on each disc is middlin serving only to validate that they could pull... | |
| Vandersteen 2Ce with Jolida 302B? Shoe, I'm quite interested in your $1700-more-than-Vandy 2ces...care to share their identity? So over thepat couple of hours, at the request of my wife (also into music listening and gear, I'm a lucky guy), I moved them into the other room and hoo... | |
| Vandersteen 2Ce with Jolida 302B? Well OK then. Allow me to answer this question directly. As I write I am listening to the dealer's floor pair of Vandy 2ce Signatures on overnight loan set up as above with a Jolida 100 CDP, Jolida 9A phono pre, Music Hall MM7. Just finished liste... | |
| power for Thiel 3.5's A Krell 300cx will provide 600 WPC in to 4 Ohms and 1200 WPC into 2 Ohms. The cx series of Krells is one of the best choices for Thiels. |