willywonka
Responses from willywonka
| How often do you send your tube pream/amp to the manufacturer for service and calibration? It's not test equipment and doesn't need calibration. I would send it in only if it was broken. | |
| AXPONA AND SWAF SOUTHWEST AUDIO FEST WHO IS GOING? Would love to meet yall! @dweller You get free water at your hotel and bring the bottle to the show. No need to pay $10/bottle for water. There is no dealing with Illinois. I get off the plane at the airport and take an Uber to my hotel next to the show for 3 days. What's... | |
| AXPONA AND SWAF SOUTHWEST AUDIO FEST WHO IS GOING? Would love to meet yall! I've gone every year since they started again after COVID. This will be my 4th trip in a row to AXPONA. Hoping to find some new speakers on this trip. | |
| Qobuz vs Tidal @gdnrbob I never bought into the whole inferior sound quality band wagon! Tidal always sounded good to me regardless of MQA or not. I've went back and forth with Qobuz and Tidal many times and landed on Tidal! | |
| 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! |