willywonka
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| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? My music library is over 110 million tracks at Tidal. Is this enough music for a good system? | |
| Integrated amp with preamp tubes Primaluna EVO series hybrids, Advance Paris, Vincent Audio, Rogue Audio and several more. Some you might have to buy used at your price point. Love Tube amps but they get hot and power tubes are expensive. Hybrids are always a good choice. | |
| "...and I don't take any advertiser money..." My problem with professional reviewers is also about getting huge discounts or even free audio equipment for the reviews! I have heard from one Audio company that the large Audio magazines won’t even review his equipment unless he advertises with ... | |
| Balanced vs RCA preamps For me it was more about flexibility. I like having both because not all power amps have both. Also, I'm thinking about getting some high-end active powered speakers. I can use my existing preamp to switch between my powered speakers and passive s... | |
| Dumb question......why do you need a preamp? Preamps do impedance matching which is very important. I've played the game hooking up DAC's directly to my Power amplifiers but in the end my active preamp always sounded better! | |
| a 3 way design speaker with the ESS Heil type sound Since the patents ran out, I've noticed numerous companies using the Heil Air Motion Transformers or some variations of it. Very popular. Pure audio project is a good one I have heard a few times now. | |
| Auditioned Wilson Sabrina X vs B&W 803D4 and Shocked I can't ever own B&W speakers. The speakers ear piercing treble wears on me over time and causes listening fatigue. Every year I go to AXPONA or other shows I always skip those rooms. Not denying they aren't good speakers, but they just aren't... | |
| Choosing between 2 preamps I have the BAT VK-80 and I can assure you the 6H30 tubes are very good. Even much of the Audio Reasearch gear has used them! | |
| Does anyone listen to the radio anymore? Only in my car. I listen mainly to a couple of talk radio shows. | |
| Do military/industrial tubes sound better than regular ones ? Russia also has their military grade tubes. The Russian Rockets Reflektor 6N23P are a popular tube still used by many especially in heaphone amps. These tubes were used by the Russian Space program back in the 70's. I still have a set in an old tu... | |
| ???Safely Trading Gear Between Private Parties??? Why can't people (Who should know better) keep the stupid political comments out of the Audio forums? You know it's going to be divisive and get a response! Grow up people! | |
| Preamp for my CODA 5.5 amp @yyzsantabarbara I'm trying to get rid of my headphones, so I wasn't really interested in the adapter. If I could get one really cheap maybe, but $800 more for something I rarely listen to isn't worth it to me. I just don't want to put any more mo... | |
| Preamp for my CODA 5.5 amp @yyzsantabarbara I was very happy with my Serene and Coda but wanted some tube sound in my system and the price was right for my VK-80. I blindly bought the BAT preamp, but I bought from Music Direct who has a 60 day return policy. I have zero reg... | |
| Preamp for my CODA 5.5 amp Like @yyzsantabarbara I was using a Holo Audio Serene KTE on my Coda #8 with good results. Very transparent sounding. I now have a Balanced Audio Technology (BAT) VK-80 Tube preamp that I am extremely happy with. Sold my Serene preamp. | |
| got my PayPal 1099 /// what now? From what I understand is if you bought an item for say $10K and sold it for $7k then you have a loss and made no profit and would not have to pay extra tax on this but would have to still document the sale with the right forms to the IRS. I'm uns... |