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| which 300b tube sounds the best? S23chang - What is a 98-C? Is it the Valve Art Titanium Meshplate? What are your experiences with the TJ Meshplates? | |
| Candidates for Re-mastering? Led Zep I and IIJames Taylor - "Sweet Baby James"Neil Young - 1st three albums (1968, 69, and 70)Santana - "Borboletta"Jan Hammer - "Oh, Yeah"Brand X - "Brand X"Johnny Winter And - "Live"Roy Buchanan - "That's What I Am Here For"(Jeese...how old a... | |
| Why do my speakers "POP" when I turn off preamp? I've had three CJ based pre-amp/amp systems and always turned off amp first (they were all tube designs) and waited about 1-2 min then turned off pre. If you turn off pre but leave amp on you're allowing some voltage to leak into speakers which ca... | |
| Joule-Electra LA-150 - Any Suggestions? "CJ...a little sweeter and I forget what else." A little hazier, a little less transparent. | |
| Tandberg sounds bright. Blah, blah blah. I was just kinda kidding, guys! I have a transistor DAC and transport and have never even considered checking out a tube output design. Design is everything, which includes parts quality, and Sim Audio and Rowland make damn good s... | |
| acoustic placement/small bright room Make sure your listening chair/sofa is as far from the wall behind you as possible. A lot of the reflective glare you're hearing is coming from that rear wall and the farther your ears are from it, the better. Also get the speakers in from the rea... | |
| Tandberg sounds bright. It's still a transistor amp... | |
| ultimate final word 3 on best passive preamp You have a turntable that plays at 122rpm? I think you meant bpm - beats per minute. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Not many of these pieces show up used - about how many Supratek pre-amps have been sold in the good ole' USA? I guess they're so good no one ever lets them go? | |
| Proac vs Dynaudio The Tablette is anything but warm and inviting. It's been known to drive people from the room in the same way fingernails across the blackboard will do. However, the ProAc 2s is definitely in that "musical" camp and if you listen primarily to clas... | |
| Questions for Roy Johnson of Green Mountain Audio Hey guys! Leave the speaker builders alone, especially those who are back ordered on gear. I've got speakers on order (not GMAs) and bet that feeling like they have to puruse A'gon and answer this stuff delays getting work done. I really do think ... | |
| sonus faber, vienna acoustics, proac I've been using 2.5s for 7 years and love the heck out of 'em. Currently use a 9 wt 300B amp in a small room (11 x 13.5) and get all the volume I need. They are musical speakers that work well with a wide variety of amps even though they are only ... | |
| Beatles re-released stereo first 4 Albums CB - Are you talking about the new, long awaited CD remasterings? Are they that bad? A couple of years ago I purchased a couple of Japanese CDs through Red Trumpet (Sgt Pepper & the White Album) and the sound quality is very good. Do these new... | |
| should i do tube? To get a sense of how tube products are wildly different, listen to (if you can) a Cary Audio 300B amp and the one from Air Tight. Also, listen to something from Audio Research and then one from Conrad-Johnson. Check out SETs, OTLs, triode P/P, pe... | |
| Single ended Power amp recommendation The 805C does not use 300B tubes as output power devices, they use the 845. |