zargon
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| Are KT-88 a good substitute for 6550c? You might take a look at audioasylum.com and the tubes forum. A search on 6550C or KT88 will turn up a great number of opinions on just that comparison. I found over 200 hits on just a quick search. | |
| Grain free, how to identify it How hard it is to describe what we hear! For me, the grain appears as if the sound stage was playing through a window screen. What should be a smoothly varying spherically expanding image, is broken up into many fragments as if it was sifted throu... | |
| A fine jazz vocal CD Since I am a fan of both Barber and Krall, this should be a nice addition to my shelf of female jazz vocalists. I will look for it. Sometimes Diana comes through as a bit too rehearsed or too produced whereas Patricia can be a bit too complex and ... | |
| Which speakers excel at low volume? The Vandy 5As are particularly good a lower volumes, I believe, due to the integrated subs. I find myself listening a lower volumes than I did with my 2 Cis and still experiencing the fullness and impact of the bass. Sean, I have noticed a drop in... | |
| What was your first system, & did you like it? My first system, in the mid 50s, was a combination of hand-me-downs including an automatic record changer, tube integrated amp and speakers without cabinets. I later graduated to Dynakit 60s. My first real system, in the late 60s, was when I bough... | |
| Amazing Solo Piano Recordings Another amazing solo piano performance is Jim Bajor's "Somewhere in Time". Jim is a Detroit area concert pianist whose repertoire includes jazz, contemporary, and original works. On this album, he performs renditions of Gershwin, Porter, Ellington... | |
| Software program to create inventory of collection I have looked at a number of products and at one time even started building my own with MS Access. The one I currently use is called CD Trustee. It is a true data base with a very flexible report writer. The best feature is you can enter CDs as fa... | |
| Amazing Solo Piano Recordings Warren,Try Dick Hyman's "Great American Songbook", a 2 CD set. Every bit as good as his Fats Waller edition. | |
| Wanna know how noisy your AC is ? Sean,Thanks for the offer. I am very interested and would like to participate. Thanks | |
| Jazz recommendations for a beginner? Jazz is a very broad category (or genre) of music, along with others such as classical, country, blues, easy listening, folk, rap, latin, new age, pop, rock etc. Jazz has a number of subcategories (or sub-genres) as well, such as ballroom, big ban... | |
| Do you own the last amp you'll ever buy? I seem to roll over a complete system about every 10 years, and I still have all the amps I ever built or purchased. I can't imagine a more desirable amp than I have, but I'm sure it will happen. I've gone from tubes to SS to tubes - what's next? | |
| Vandersteen 3x Owners: More Bass? 4yanx, sorry for misleading you. I was comparing the virtues of separate versus integrated subs. The 5A subs cannot be improved on IMO. Pubul57, the search never stops! (:-)My next step is addressing power and conditioning. I am currently running ... | |
| Vandersteen 3x Owners: More Bass? While I agree that the location for best imaging and the location for best bass are in geneneral not the same, in my room they are not very far apart and the controls on the 5A easily corrected for the difference. (Only the bottom two bands were a... | |
| tube traps didn't help Gbmcleod - What are the dimensions and characterists of your listening room that have required such seemingly extreme correction? If I had 33-50 tube traps in my room there wouldn't be room for anything else. Please lend some insight into what pro... | |
| Vandersteen 3x Owners: More Bass? Your room and setup sounds ideal and not too different from my own. My room is 18W by 30L by 11H (with cathedral ceilings). I too have positioned the speakers out from the back wall and listen in the near field. The advantages of the 5As over the ... |