tomcy6
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| Pink Floyd - signed The Wall I checked out your pictures then googled "David Gilmour's signature" (I'd paste it here but the url is massive). To my untrained eye your signatures look authentic, but that's not going to raise the value of your album.Most of the webpage is pictu... | |
| Pink Floyd - signed The Wall I couldn't find the pictures you linked to. You should do some research on the pressing. That could increase the value if it's a first pressing or some kind of special pressing.If it's not a valuable pressing then the signatures will determine the... | |
| Interesting analog experience Most will agree that cd sound has improved greatly over the years, especially in the last few years. Then note that Michael Fremer reviewed the dcs Vivaldi stack in the current issue of Stereophile and said he didn't miss his vinyl while listening... | |
| What is a fair price? They sell here for around $400. | |
| Use Your Own Ears Well, unless you live in a large city and can have several dealers bring over equipment and set it up so that you can listen and make your choices, which you will pay full retail for, we have to put our systems together by trial and error, buying ... | |
| Speaker Set-Up: Use of a Plumb Bob I often read about people with much more experienced ears than my own making 1/16th or 1/8th inch adjustments to their speaker positions until "everything snaps into focus."If that's the case, then wouldn't one have to have his head in exactly the... | |
| Where's Digital playback at today ? The Esoteric K series have received good reviews from both magazines and users. The K-03 and K-05 can be purchased for under $8,000 used.Another option is that Sony has just come out with a player, the HAP-Z1ES ($2,000), that plays DSD and PCM dow... | |
| Sony HAP-Z1ES Hi-Res Music Player RMAF 2013 Thanks Jon, Helpful summary. | |
| When to power off a tube amp? Highroller, whenever this topic comes up there is disagreement. I haven't seen one of these discussions come to an agreement anyway.Personally, I think the preponderance of the evidence indicates that you should turn your tube preamp off if you ar... | |
| When to power off a tube amp? Many recent vintage tube preamps have a slow start cycle built in. It slowly increases the voltage going to the tubes over a 20 to 45 second interval when you turn the preamp on. Preamps that I know of with this feature include PrimaLuna, c-j and ... | |
| Tube preamp for SS amp Just to clarify, the input impedance of the amp should be at least 10x the output impedance of the preamp. Tube preamps can have fairly high output impedances, e.g. 1.5 kohms. 10x this output impedance would require an input impedance of at least ... | |
| Grant Green suggestions I second Rja's recommendation, "Grant Green, The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark" is excellent. | |
| Joseph Audio RM25XL Congrats! It's always good to hear that someone found enlightenment, or their system did anyway. | |
| Blu Ray Audio has any one tried it? I've got a couple of BluRay discs that I play through an unmodded Oppo 95 and they sound better than cds. I think I'm going to wait and see how Sony's HiRez DSD download venture goes before I load up on a new high res format. | |
| PrimaLuna ProLogue 7 Monoblocks or ? The PrimaLuna amps are well regarded, see if the dealer will let you take them home for an audition. In the meantime there is a thread on this topic in this forum titled, "tube amps and electrostatics" that should interest you. |