twoleftears
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| 12AU7 tubes for a Rouge Audio Sphinx V3 Integrated I believe the best-sounding new-production 12AU7s are the Psvane ART series (Viva Tubes). If you go NOS, then the world's your oyster. So far, Amperex are the best, IME. | |
| The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them In the October Stereophile Industry Update, it also rolls over on the issue. Evidently both mags' vested interests are pretty much the same. | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing This really is rich. First we have ricevs telling Ralph how to redesign his amps, and now kuribo has a go. Meanwhile, Ralph is model of restraint and superhuman patience. | |
| Infigo Audio Cables Pricing??? Are there two lines, Sparkle and Signature?? | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing Unfortunately, "Job" is already taken as an amplifier name. (And that's pronounced with a long o.) | |
| Recommendations for HiFi Listening Room Among brands that are more commonly found out there in stores, definitely try to listen to Vandersteen and Sonus Faber. But just because a brand is stocked by a bunch of stores (B&W, Focal, Paradigm, etc.) don't assume that it's best bang for... | |
| The new LSA Signature 50 Monitor "Disruptive Product" When dealing with Underwood, it’s best first to check out very carefully their return/non-return policy on new goods. This is another area where Underwood is very different from Crutchfield, Music Direct, Audio Advisor, etc. | |
| Please recommend speakers for 45 watt SET amps Budget? Devore and Audio Note come to mind. | |
| Recommendations for HiFi Listening Room You can do a lot better than what the dealer suggested. As per others, the first thing to do is to find two or three brands of speakers that you really like, which may require a bit of travel, but it will be worth it. Once the speakers are set, ... | |
| WILL IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE? I'm surprised that you find the system a little bright. What kind of room is it in? Size? Windows? Absorbent vs. non-absorbest surfaces? You also don't mention what ICs and SCs you're using. | |
| Is symphonic music kind of like Phil Spector got hold of chamber music? Haydn's Esterházy orchestra was 13-24 players in size, what we might often consider a chamber orchestra today. The bloat--if that's what it was (Wagner and Mahler would disagree)--happened later. AFAIK, Haydn wrote more symphonies than anyone el... | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing Classic move: accuse others of what you're doing yourself. | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing @noske I was referring to independent measurements, such as those performed by John Atkinson for Stereophile. Should have made that clearer. | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing @kuribo Make an effort! Between Ralph’s refutation of ricevs’s pointless proposed modifications, and the Cook’s Tour of the inside of the amp that he gives in the San Francisco video (posted somewhere above), there’s plenty of technical informatio... | |
| Buckeye amps Nord (UK), Apollon (Austria), Rouge (Italy). ATM in Spain (Valencia) is very interesting, but doesn't manufacture for the US market. https://atm-audio.com/ |