tomcy6
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| According to the RIAA, It doesn't look good for physical media This statement is misleading.The statistic of dollar amount of LP’s exceeding CD can be explained by higher pricing of LP’s per unit. Vinyl can be more than 2x the price of a CD.How is it misleading? I just stated what each format shipped in uni... | |
| Analog or Digital and why? According to The RIAA, analog music sales (vinyl, tape, etc.) made up about 5% of music sales last year. The rest was digital, mostly streaming, but also downloads and CDs. Many of the LPs were sourced from digital masters.LPs will be around for a... | |
| What touchscreen panel is Michael Fremer using in this video? It's a Meridian Sooloos Control 15. It's been around for a long time. You need Meridian music storage components to work with it. I don't know if it's able to stream Tidal or Qobuz. https://www.meridian-audio.com/media/5609/control-15-data-she... | |
| For anyone who moved from tubes to solid state — a question Tubes and SS are a different paradigm. They approach producing music from different perspectives. My understanding is that tubes are a more visceral experience and SS more intellectual. This type of generalization is common in a variety of audio d... | |
| How much space between cables is enough? tony1954, Don’t try to understand or debate millercarbon. He is a tweaker supreme and is certain that his way of doing things is the only way. If you don’t buy less expensive gear and tweak the hell out of it, you are stupid in his world. All twea... | |
| to my friends of AudiogoN, Sorry to hear that your VA is causing you problems. Isn't there someone to whom you can appeal? Do you have a right to get a second opinion? | |
| Should music critics also be audiophiles? Most audiophile magazines give recordings they review a grade for sound and performance and often discuss the sound in their review. Many music magazines don't because people who care about sound are a tiny minority of their readers.Paul McGowan ... | |
| 6922 tube If you want to waste your money rolling tubes and hallucinating Here is where the trouble always starts. People try to present what they hear with their ears in their system as universal truths instead of their personal experience.We could sto... | |
| What's the deal with Vintage Tube Service? This is the knock on Andy, good tubes, great guy, but can be very slow. I don't know if sending a check would speed things up. I don't see how that would be better than a cc #. There are other good sellers who get your tubes out faster than And... | |
| Rolling pre tubes question I never heard of a tube with paper on it https://www.tubemonger.com/Brimar_CV4033_NOS_1960_62_Prem_CV4024_STC_Eng_FAC_p/2042m.htm | |
| Balanced Audio Technology MK-30 tubes. Alternative to Sovtek 6922 Tubes are graded better when they are lower noise and more closely matched. It sounds like you only need lower noise. I would call Kevin, Brent Jessee and Jim McShane and explain your problem. I think any of those three will be honest about whethe... | |
| 6922 tube mozartfan, I advise you to change the way you go about building your system. I think I recall another thread where you were swapping between different tube types in the 12xx7 family of tubes without finding out if the different tube types were co... | |
| Looking for new to me Jazz music Yes he was. They put out albums in 2012, 2014, and 2016 as a septet. | |
| Rolling pre tubes question Here is an explanation for the paper labels from the Tubemonger’s website, except your labels were printed, not handwritten. I would remove them if you can: *Each tube came with two factory stickers (click Larger Photo). A hand written individual ... | |
| Analog or Digital and why? "What’s this either/or crapola?Too much like religion or politics.Bloody useless."It’s the world of one for whom life is endless labor in an economy of prestige and self affirmation. All social exchange becomes an opportunity to gain esteem and fi... |