wolf_garcia
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| For anyone who moved from tubes to solid state — a question My 4 tube (including rectifier) Dennis Had SEP needs efficient speakers unless you’re listening very near-field...plenty of clear and snappy bass (12 or 17 or something ground shaking watts depending on tube type), but supplemented with a couple o... | |
| Looking for new to me Jazz music New Bill Frisell album...great music and killer sound. | |
| Analog or Digital and why? I used a (gift from my mother when I was maybe 17) KLH Model 20 compact system (great speakers) for many years, and it had a Pickering cartridge with a little dust brush attached...adorable...my records bought new from the 60s and 70s still sound ... | |
| Tubed Preamp recommendations? Surfmuz...if anyone is incapable of reaching over a Freya (which has room for this since the tubes demand the room) to switch it on I sympathize...mine turns on from the power conditioner anyway, although I do switch it off if I want the other ite... | |
| Tubed Preamp recommendations? Schiit Freya +...a bargain, with more capability than any of the above mentioned preamps. | |
| Is Break-In essential and potentially dangerous for the Audiophile? What if one prefers the sound of the not yet broken-in, or burned-in, or burned-out state of a component or wire? After 47 hours of breaking in my cable sounded less important. Somehow demure and borderline flatulent. Cryo me a river. | |
| KT150 to KT120..or KT120 to KT150 I used both in my previous amp, a push pull 85wpc, and my current amp, a single ended SEP Class A...in both cases I also preferred the 120s as they seem relatively clean and clear sounding, where the 150s just sound forced somehow. Now I use neith... | |
| No "Room Correction" Topic option. Why? The editor of Stereophile had an interesting editorial regarding rooms that I totally agree with...a room often adds a sense of reality that renders digital "correction" unnecessary. Digital "nannies" might be useful if your room has no furniture ... | |
| What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby? Buying speakers that I was certain must be fabulous based on a review and talking to the builder...without hearing them personally first...put 'em in my system, was sure they were breaking-in, waited, waited some more, and then realized they just ... | |
| Synergistic Research Orange Fuse Littelfuse has been around since 1927, designs award winning products for thousand of applications, and their fuse ratings are absolutely accurate...the fuse for my amp is superb and cost around a dollar. "Special" fuses add nothing to the sound o... | |
| Where do you buy your CDs these days? Amazon Smile donates part of the purchase to charity. | |
| Should I upgrade my Tubes GL KT77s are great tubes, although currently I'm using a pair (I have a quad of these) of unused Sovtek KT88s I've had for a while...somehow they sound great. | |
| Best SET speaker combo under 5k new or used Dennis Had sells his single ended (masterpieces of point to point wired brilliant sounding things) hand made amps for around 1700 bucks more or less, and a pair of Klipsch Heresy IVs (I use a Had amp with Heresy IIIs, and it's the best rig I've ow... | |
| Long XLR cables - help me decide Neutrik is not Swiss, its stuff is made in Liechtenstein. | |
| Is the preamp the “heart” of the system? I think it's the pancreas of the system. |