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| My first Tube Amplifier My first tube amplifier was a *used* MC275. Today a classic. It was a trade in.. I used to sell audio and was also able to secure with a salesman's accommodation a new Luxman tube amp. Back then they were not well known. No one knew about burni... | |
| What amps should I audition? It would be obscene to spend 8-10k on any amplifier and have it not sound terrific. Why should one doubt which sounds better if spending more money always means better sound? Its an illusion otherwise. More money does not mean better. Better c... | |
| best preamps If I had an unlimited budget? I would not be here to let you know. ;) | |
| Why do people buy preamps if they can directly connect amp to stereo source/phone/PC/tv? A good preamp can introduce tubes into the sound. I also have a passive pre with the same Alps Blue. The tubes add a subtle difference that can be varied by rolling tubes. Yet, the passive is no slouch either. I am running balanced interconnec... | |
| best preamps I can not recommend Best preamps because that company went out of business years before I could afford one. Sometimes you can find a used one on Ebay for a cheap and may be worth a go to find out for yourself first hand. Why a Best preamp? T... | |
| A certain online retailer asked me for a review of Pangea power cords.. I have a ton load of Pangea cords,,,, Just tried one Audience entry level Forte 3 Power Chord. At least on my Yggdrasil DAC it sounds far superior to anything I heard from Pangea. | |
| A certain online retailer asked me for a review of Pangea power cords.. Power cords apparently 'condition' the AC in some way. That is how six feet of cord changes what we hear. Or, the last six feet of cord destroys the AC entering into our equipment. Probably the best way is to have the solid core in the wall exten... | |
| Switched from RCA to XLR Interconnects - WOW Audioman58 said... Switching from RCA to XLR is only worththe extra time and money is if, you have a True differential balanced from input to output for each channel . Which is easy to tell ,you will see 4 transformers . I do not believe tha... | |
| A certain online retailer asked me for a review of Pangea power cords.. I am suspect of some of the Pangea critics. They are not cheap cords, They could sell for much more. Pangea caught themselves in a Catch-22 by offering such quality for not much money. A good number of power cords that some may like were desig... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? Nothing to do with timing.... back when I was playing in a band - when tubes and transistors were in its transitional stage... we simply knew that tubes simply sounded better for music. | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio I checked out online some pictures of the The Lab12 DAC1 SE...It does not even offer balanced capacity. Not an XLR output to be found.. A DAC like the Yggdrasil being fronted by a good tube preamp should produce more accurate sound... | |
| Morrow Audio re-design announcement: No more Ag coated Cu; Increased numbers of runs. """" I am blown away that Morrow is walking away from their silver coated copper cables which he said were the best. Now he states the all his all copper cables are better. """"""Its not simply all copper. Morrow is now using wires that ar... | |
| New speakers for my system Keep it small? A pair of Audience 1+1's and a REL sub (or a pair) .... Can't get more phase coherent and detailed.... I listen to 1+1's on my desktop (sans REL) and know they reveal music in an excellent way. REL has the speed to match the Au... | |
| One DAC/integrated you could be happy with forever? " One DAC/integrated you could be happy with forever?"Foolish premise. The DACs that can make you happy forever are not to be found in integrated. Schiit remains upgradeable for when a new breakthrough is discovered. Integrated may have a fine ... | |
| Mytek slams Hypex in Stereophile Amp Review All these class D companies utilize modules from several main suppliers which they modify to their own tastes... Yet, NuPrime manufactures their own modules and is the best Class D I have heard with the NuPrime ST-10. And, that is not even the... |