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| Why aren't new vacuum tubes as good as old ones? Audio components that measure the best do not necessarily sound the best. There are many aspects of music reproduction that we haven’t figured out how to measure yet. Tests that objectively prove what we should like just don’t work in audio, it’s ... | |
| My 6922 Tubes Are Too Bright! New production Russian tubes are made by Electro Harmonix/ New Sensor, web page: shop.ehx.comThey make a number of different brands, so maybe you can recognize what you have from the pictures on their web site.As far as NOS Russian tubes go, the V... | |
| Art Dudley compares CD Players sevs, If someone prefers vinyl to digital, that’s fine. If a professional reviewer describes in detail how great cds sound on the player he’s reviewing and then states elsewhere that he doesn’t like the sound of cds, that’s dishonest. | |
| Art Dudley compares CD Players Reading Art Dudley reviews of cd players is a total waste of time. He’ll give a cd player a great review and then in the next issue he’ll write in his column about how lousy cds sound. I guess the people at Stereophile think that we can’t remember... | |
| SQ lacking How big is your bedroom? You don’t have those speakers on each side of your bed do you? You're going to have to clear out some room for your speakers to work. I don't think room correction will be much help until you get some open space between y... | |
| SQ lacking You’ve got a lot of equipment there and it looks like good quality gear, so if your system just sounds bad, something isn’t working properly.I can’t really tell you what the optimal setup would be, but I would set up each part of your system (i.e.... | |
| Eric Clapton on J.J. Cale I agree with you about Jorma's electric playing on anything later than "Surrealistic Pillow."I can also name a drummer who proves your point. Antonio Sanchez with Pat Metheny. The guy ruins the music by constantly bashing and crashing away, just... | |
| Eric Clapton on J.J. Cale Like you, I prefer ensemble playing to flash, but you’ve picked the wrong players to make your point. The Who was an ensemble consisting of four players, none of whom were replaceable. Keith Moon’s style of drumming was perfect for The Who and was... | |
| SQ lacking Something is wrong. You should be enjoying crisp clear sound.You might want to further describe your system (cd transport - dac - preamp - headphone amp). You say you have a dac/headphone amp. You should be able to connect your cd transport to the... | |
| News: Qobuz Hi-Res platform's debut is scheduled for this October. See Qobuz Links below Thanks for the update. I'm looking forward to trying Qobuz too. | |
| Tube suggestions for hybrid integrated amp It's good to hear that the NOS tubes worked out well for you. Maybe you'll want to try a different brand of tubes one of these days. | |
| Dac Technology Mature? Digital is still in its infancy, IMHO. It will continue to improve for a long time to come. | |
| How to find the good CD recordings? George, As far as a guide to cds goes, I don’t think Deep Blues will help much.I see that All Music is still doing a print version Guide to the Blues (as recently as 2003 anyway):https://www.amazon.com/All-Music-Guide-Blues-Definitive/dp/087930736... | |
| How to find the good CD recordings? n80, One way to learn about blues recordings is by reading. Much has been written about the blues and which are the best examples of different subgenres such as delta blues, Piedmont blues, Chicago blues, Texas blues, etc. The thing is, many bl... | |
| Streaming Quality Test - Lumin U1 vs. PS Audio Direcstream DAC vs Bridge II Dave and Troy,sfseay was listening to two different streamers through the same Dac, not different Dacs. |