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| Kind of Blue "Crossings" is almost a compendium of jazz styles and motifs turned on its ear. It keeps morphing. I compared a sealed Green Label to the Kevin Gray cut a few years ago. Listening to that album was a revelation. My impressions fresh from a compar... | |
| Tube Depot's "NOS vacuum tube sale" I think they are legit. They have very few tubes I use- I did buy a pair of old NIB 12ax7 Tele ribbed plates from them a couple years ago- fresh old stock. They had a pair of NIB WE 3ooBs for close to 20 grand at one point (with boxes that looked ... | |
| Rediscovered My album collection. Where to buy online. What to buy is going to dictate where to buy in many cases. With Tone Poet, I had no problem buying many copies of things like Katanga! when it was in print. (why so many- I give ’em away). Records like that I have no problem with Amazon. Rare re... | |
| Kind of Blue Surprised that great Oliver Nelson record isn’t mentioned. A warhorse to be sure, but to me, at the level of Kind of Blue. I think the reason that the old recordings can sound so good is manifold: the studio equipment was far more primitive, l... | |
| Thank You Fumihiko Sugano and Koetsu What I found, in the platinum stones, was a richness and "filled in" quality to the bass, aside from what has been called a "technicolor" midrange. I don't find that in my system, which tends to be lean. It looked like the "writing was on the wall... | |
| Audio Racks, Just How beneficial? looking for guidance in upgrading Here are some off-hand observations: the market developed for racks which provide isolation and those can get pricey. Not dissing them, it is one choice. The alternative is to use basic, substantial racks of some sort and do the isolation part w... | |
| What About LiFePO4 Batteries and Pure Sine Wave Inverters? I don't know if Living Voice will sell you just their inverter- they have been doing a serious battery array for big systems for years. May be worth reading up and giving them a ring (UK). | |
| The Midnight Effect - Who-How? @knittersspouse- I found your post informative. Can you focus on the OP's use of power regenerators? That is, devices like the PS Audio boxes that are akin to amplifiers and take power from the wall receptacle but then "regenerate" it? The impre... | |
| Upgrades and repairs on hi fi components Peter Ledermann at Soundsmith used to repair ARC stuff-he recapped and retubed a Dual 75a that I’ve owned since new. It is now due for another go-over (haven’t had it running for more than a decade but still). I found a local guy, Atomic Tube her... | |
| The Midnight Effect - Who-How? @rooze - it was always an audiophile "truth" that systems sounded better at night when there was less demand on the grid. It does make some sense to me since you are essentially playing your power supplies with amplifiers and those in turn depend ... | |
| The Midnight Effect - Who-How? I can hear when each of the two systems I have "open up" and it has nothing to do with substance intake. The vintage system warms up faster- the Quad Loudspeakers are plugged in constantly so under full charge. The Quad II amps with real GEC KT66s... | |
| Getting into vinyl for the first time You don’t want to be clueless. In terms of gear, all of it matters, from the phono cartridge to the phono stage, to the wires, the arm and the cartridge. Then you have the issue of the current vinyl market- overinflated in my estimation, both in... | |
| Is Bill Thalman man still working on Conrad Johnson's? I'm sad to say Bill passed away. See https://musictechnology.com | |
| Sagging power plugs in wall outlet, diy @jea48 - what a nice, neat job you did, looks like a finished product. Using Legos- when you really want to let people know you are "serious" about sound. Fun thread- it is an issue. Mine was just a quick fix and I don't mind the appearance in ... | |
| Sagging power plugs in wall outlet, diy @jea48 's idea is clever. I know Furutech makes an even more expensive cord support. I glued hockey pucks together in stacks, use 'em for this purpose. Cheap but effective and requires zero skills. |