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Sophia Electric Blue glass
I just rolled in a 274B rectifier and paired 6SN7s into my amp and wow are they good:https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/7635 
High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it.
 As explained to me by Paul Weitzel of Tube Research Labs, who was both a recording and equipment engineer, the problem centers around engineering, engineering of the source material and engineering at the reproduction end. People fixate so much o... 
Sophia Electric Blue glass
Still somewhat scant feedback..... 
Jazz for aficionados
Hey Schubert. Thanks for that reference. How’s Minnesota? 
The best speaker you ever heard?
The revel salon2 was the best sounding system I heard til I bought them and brought them home. now I disagree with the OP and while speakers are important all the pieces of the puzzle have to fit in a hi rez system for it to be musical.Bingo Steve... 
Review: Intuitive Design/Pitcher Sound Labs Summit PSL 624 Speaker
Bob, good for you for squeezing the most out of the Gammas.  A lot of people fail, and they truly a marvelous design and close to the best speaker I have owned.  I sold them due to concerns about small children (thank you Bill).  Sufur, 25 years i... 
Jazz for aficionados
Other albums that come to my mind:Yusef Lateef; Eastern Sounds Jim Hall/Charlie Haden; Live from MontrealAvishai Cohen Trio; Gently DisturbedNew Zion Trio; Fight Against Babylon (Jazz meets dub style reggae) 
Jazz for aficionados
And thank you frogman.....more great jazz to collect 
Jazz for aficionados
I do that have of any BA.  Thank u acman3.... 
Jazz for aficionados
A wonderful thread and break from the usual sword fighting over equipment. Ironically, I have picked up a lot of excellent jazz over the years by reading equipment reviews. I have some recent acquisitions that are more avant-garde or off the beate... 
The Future of Audio Amplification
Ralph, you are more capable than anyone on this thread to explain why class D is the future from a technical standpoint.  Lay it on us.  Also, have you (as George is implying) had a religious conversion to the world of class D to the point of impl... 
The Future of Audio Amplification
As kosst alluded to, class D is not a new technology and was developed largely by Phillips for the sake of specific engineering requirements such as one would find in an hearing aid for example.  Class D has had a renaissance of late due in part t... 
Revelation: Merlin+Joule- Total bliss
 Congratulations dumbeat. I had a pair of VSMmms as my first audiophile speaker and Bobby helped me set up the entire system on a budget. At the time I couldn’t afford the OTLs nor the heat and logistical issues they created. However, I fully beli... 
Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics?
To be more specific, schizoid mentation/depression/OCD tendencies superimposed on a predisposition towards addiction: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/music-sex-stimulate-same-part-brain-opioid-drugs-rock-n-roll-mcgill-university-scientif... 
Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics?
Yeah, I don't think it's quite that bad. Perhaps a mild disorder like obsessive compulsive disorder or mild depression. Perhaps mild case of bipolar. In some cases even a full blown case of the you know what.😄OCD tendencies and/of depression do fe...