tomcy6
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| A quick question related to Amperex Bugle Boys Some info about the original question. I think the 5AR4s were made in England in the Blackburn Mullard factory but were sometimes labelled Amperex. Phillips was a Dutch conglomerate that owned many tube brands, Mullard, Amperex, Siemens, Valvo, an... | |
| 12AWG speaker wire Thank you for the explanation @petg60.! Very helpful. That's a lot of technology for connecting our components. | |
| 12AWG speaker wire @petg60 What does triple C stand for? I know OCC is Ohno Continuous Cast. The Furutech mentioned above combines OCC with DUCC. I don't know what DUCC is either. Does anyone know? | |
| Can my Roon Nucleus be used with a non-Roon-ready DAC? I’m not sure about that, jjss49. The roon nucleus is a streamer. You connect it to a streamerless DAC that is roon ready and the DAC will play whatever the nucleus streams to it. I do this myself with an Esoteric SACD player that has no streaming ... | |
| Best unplugged live From Wikipedia: The series first aired November 26, 1989, featuring Squeeze, Syd Straw and Elliot Easton. | |
| SS with meters Coda Continuum No. 8 may be what you're looking for. | |
| Pink Floyd’s brand new song You've got to give props to David Gilmour. One of the good guys in rock. | |
| Can a great system make a mediocre recording sound good? It depends on what you consider a great system. A system that is euphonic makes poor recordings sound better but does not make good recordings sound as good as they can. You may tire of the euphonic distortion (usually boosted second and third har... | |
| High quality CDs They don’t have a large catalog but Yarlung Records releases are said to sound very good. https://www.yarlungrecords.com/product-category/cd/ | |
| Vandersteen Speakers.. Are All Other Speaker Makers Doing It Wrong ? Nah. There are lots of great sounding speakers.. | |
| Has the cost of HiFi gotten a bit too much? I get that it is better, but it gives me no more joy than the first one. When you’re in your early twenties, it is much easier to enjoy just about everything. It being Friday was reason enough to have a party and throw caution to the wind. Ever... | |
| Has the cost of HiFi gotten a bit too much? Taxing the hell out of the top !% is not going to solve the US’s financial problems. The net worth of the top 1% according to the Federal Reserve is 42.5 trillion dollars as of June of last year. If the US confiscated the entire net worth of the t... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. @bdp24 and @stuartk I enjoyed Chinaberry Sidewalks too. I'm hoping for a second volume that goes into his moving to Nashville, meeting Guy and Susanna Clark, working with Emmylou, marrying Rosanne and his work from The Houston Kid on. That's go... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. I favor older stuff, myself-- Jerry Jeff, EmmyLou, Rodney Crowell, Willie, etc. +1 stuartk, Rodney’s been doing his best work the last 20 years. My favorites are: The Houston Kid Fate’s Right Hand Close Ties Acoustic Classics Triage Willi... | |
| Does Formula 1 racing and high end audio go together for anyone else? You may be interested to know that Tag McLaren tried to enter the audiophile market 20 - 25 years or so ago. I think they thought that if they can build formula 1 cars how hard could making audiophile gear be. Their audio gear never gained trac... |