tkhill
Responses from tkhill
| Getting back into venal with a $2,000 budget. Venal can be had for much less than vinyl. | |
| When were the best tube amps made? I'd still go with a properly maintained 240. | |
| Vintage worth the time to explore? If you can find an older Sophia EL34 A/B for six hundred dollars or so and invest in a checkup by a qualified tech you'll be in great shape. The good news is that the JJ EL34s or 6CA7s are fine replacements and are not ridiculously expensive. | |
| How Did Your First Audiophile Experience Impact Your Audio Journey? Freshman year of college. Enhanced. Lady Land. Thorens 125 (?) S.M.E. arm, a Shure cartridge. Mac tube pre-amp with a 275 and a pair of VOT A7s. It was the beginning of a glorious journey! | |
| Ditching Class A Amps due to Heat - Sort of a Poll I loved my Chinese Class A amp. It sounded better than the un-rebranded Sophia A/B I have now. (B.T.W. - Sophia's profit margin on these Chinese-made amps is huge! | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused Why are you listening? To hear the mistakes the engineers made or to enjoy the music? I have a pair of unforgiving loudspeakers coupled to an excellent Sophia A/B amp. Listening to re-mastered Hot 5s & Diana Krall is bliss. There's a lot else,... | |
| Welcome to Hell, here's your 8-Track Amusing discussion. Next VHS vs. Beta. Audio cassettes were not a tape loops. | |
| Klipsch Speakers Stainless steel connectors? Stainless is a crappy conductor! | |
| So, I listened to a $1Million Dollar System Being a "big time" dealer is only indicative of sales, not knowhow. | |
| At this level of high(er) end audio why not offer balanced connections? When we agree on which pin is hot so we can make adaptors. That's when. | |
| How much is about the recording The late Rudy Van Gelder once said "I love re-mastering early recordings. Those engineers wore ties to work." | |
| Dust Settled Consensus- is the Benchmark AHB2 an Audiophile Amplifier? While I've not heard the amp in question, I'm very familiar with their mic pres. I loved them because they were so incredibly transparent and accurate. | |
| Dust Settled Consensus- is the Benchmark AHB2 an Audiophile Amplifier? Is this the same Benchmark that makes the exquisite mic pre amps? | |
| Most underrated female recording artists.. Toni Tenille (of the Captain &) is a terrific singer. Don't let her popular success fool you. | |
| Low buzzing through speaks Back in my radio days we designed a very nice control room. Then the engineer laid all the mic lines on top of the data lines. I was the only person who could hear the problem, therefore it didn't exist. I'd try a trial separation, or, if it's n... |