tomcy6
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| What's with all the new colored vinyl? The main concern for most of the companies that sell records is how many they sell, definitely not sound quality, except for some small labels. If coloring the vinyl sells more copies, they’ll color the vinyl. | |
| Why Does My Current Music Sound So Much Better than It Did in the 80’s? Synths and drum machines that sound cheesy today were popular in the 80s. Some people thought they sounded cool back then. Maybe the jazz you listen to today is made on musical instruments? | |
| Bob James In the May/June TAS there's a review of "Bob James: Feel Like Making Live!" | |
| Bob James Bob keeps putting out albums. I've even seen his album "Espresso" get a review in Stereophile or TAS, not sure which. He's still a little too smooth for me, though. | |
| Songs that sound like Dylan Joan Baez used to be able to do a great Dylan impression, but her voice has headed south just like Dylan's. I know that's not what you're looking for but I just thought I'd throw it in for a laugh. | |
| 5AR4 rectifier tube question While you’re at ebay check out this link for an example of etched codes: Mullard Blackburn GZ34 etched code Top line right below the word Mullard - f32. f3 is the tube type and 2 is the change code, like a model number - v1, v2, etc. The second... | |
| First impressions of the Isoacoustic Gaia 1’s The emojis are in the tool bar over the response box.😀 | |
| Recording vinyl woes Do a search on Amazon for Music CD-R. There are some of them there. ebay has a lot of them. It appears that Maxell is still making them. | |
| OCD audio guy naming shady Audiogon dealers by name If this guy thinks he can determine the sound he’s going to get from the equipment he takes home by how the store he buys it from looks, he’s in for a surprise. GHT may be a great dealer, but there are many great dealers operating out of less lux... | |
| New to computer audio The Nucleus does not have an internal DAC so you'll need a separate DAC to play music. If you have a Cd player that has a USB Digital Input, that should work. The roon app has a volume control so you can go direct to your amp but you may find t... | |
| 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. |