lloydc
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| What is the fascination? @dweller, Cleeds wasn’t being rude, he just gave the unvarnished truth about those Garrards. They were great - but only in theory. All too often people here won’t name names or tell it straight. Blunt honesty like Cleeds’ should be encourage... | |
| Cassette Deck Repair Imho, it’s not worth the cost of repair unless it’s a great 3-head deck, e.g. Nakamichi, Tandberg or Revox. I just hope my Dragon (rebuilt by Hermann, he’s the best!) outlasts me. | |
| Inexpensive Tube Amps Since when is 3.5 W @ 8 ohms, even tube watts, adequate for anything other than quiet background music or super-efficient horn speakers? | |
| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( "my son is 19 and listens to everything on his Iphone with earbuds."+1, exactly the same for my son, who is 18. So I bought him a pair of great Etymotic Research earbuds ($400) and a dac for his computer (an Oppo) and he's good. He has no intere... | |
| Please Read and express your feelings and opinions.... We don’t want to be like the snowflakes of the post-millennial generation, who prefer to ban speakers from campus who might hurt their feelings with different ideas. I sometimes worry about thd future of our most important right, the first amendm... | |
| EL34 tubes- alternates to matched octet for Primaluna HP dialogue premium I experienced reliability issues with Psvanne Ax7’s. Wish it were not so, they sounded nice. | |
| Publication bias and confounders in product reviews - TAS, Stereophile, Audiogon, etcetera It is often difficult to decipher a Stereophile review. As someone above noted, theymay damn a product with faint praise. Many of their reviews seem inconclusive or unenthusiastic - which usually means "there are better products out there". Wh... | |
| EL34 tubes- alternates to matched octet for Primaluna HP dialogue premium Blues41, Small signal tubes are plentiful and to some degree afordable. I was referring to power tubes. 8 old matched Mullard el34’s? You can’t be serious. | |
| EL34 tubes- alternates to matched octet for Primaluna HP dialogue premium Matched modern power tubes are fine. 8 matched NOS power tubes would cost way too much, and besides, you won’t really find 8 matched tubes- there aren’t enough of them to sort and match them like they can new production. The recommendation for 8... | |
| For tube sound, which is more important: preamp or power amp? I went all tube- pre, amp, phono - more than 30 years ago, when SS amps were harsh and consequently, I had lost interest in recorded music. Solved that problem! Amps and preamps are equally important.As many above have noted, there are many ways... | |
| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable Science is not a religion. That's ridiculous. | |
| Modwright Preamp Owners. Thanks for the insight on the LS 100. I went from an Audio Research Ls-15 to MW 36.5 years ago. Huge improvement. No doubt the separate MW power supply would improve things, and I guess one might find a preamp which suits his taste slightly mor... | |
| The new Synergistic Research BLUE fuses .... is there some general belief among audiophiles that ceramic fuses are "better" than glass? | |
| Does anyone use hearing aids when listening to your hi-fi audio system? psag, I have Oticon Intiga 10 hearing aids. The newer aids have faster processors and software. | |
| Triode or Ultra-linear? Why? Wolf, one rumor I heard was that Mesa got tired of dealing with the demands of audio dealers, who wanted frequent "upgrades" to be made available. |