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| Best tube preamp ever There is no one “best.” That is dependent upon associated components and personal preference.Lamm, VTL, ARC, Atma-Sphere, CAT, Einstein and Aesthetix all make tube preamps that compete at the top level. | |
| Hey RICH Audiophiles “The real question is why do rich audiophiles buy exorbitantly high priced systems when there are so many less expensive options to achieving equal or even better sound? Wealthy / successful people are usually focused on end state results, not twe... | |
| Beyond the sound of things, and into the soul of things. I don’t know anything about digital files, but I agree with you that, while the best digital (MSB, Lampizator, etc.) has gotten very good and musically and sonically enjoyable, most high-analog offers a level of emotional involvement I personally ... | |
| Synergestic Black Fuse vs Audio Magic BeesWax The best sounding out there — meaning available in the entire world today?Please tell us the full universe of fuses which you have compared directly in the same component in the same system to the Synergistic Blue. | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD Hello chadsort,Your conclusion is dumbfounding to me, but I respect your report and your preference.I agree with those who make the point that to experience the musical and emotional involvement of analog one should play an analog recording. Surfa... | |
| Looking For 90% of the performane of the super expensive cables for much less money How about the relatively inexpensive Zu Audio Event cables? | |
| Looking for a warm sweet speaker I nominate the Sonus Faber Guarneri Homage. | |
| What Matters and What is Nonsense I think the attitude exhibited by the author of the opening post is arrogant and condescending and close-minded. But he is very well aware of that.I would have expected that 50 years of time in this hobby would have produced more questions and cir... | |
| Best tube preamp ever I own personally and I am a huge fan of the Aesthetix Io phono stage and the Callisto line stage. | |
| Balanced cables Do balanced interconnects, perhaps because of common mode noise rejection, tend to suppress even order harmonics?Could this be one reason some people feel single-ended connections sound more natural and musical than balanced connections? | |
| Balanced cables Am I correct that if an interconnect length is 50’ it is uncontroversial that XLR is the way to go? | |
| What's your OTL tube amp experience and suggestion? I spent about four hours using Google translate to translate from Italian to English dozens of posts about the Alieno LTD 250 amplifier on an Italian audio forum. The translated posts did not tell me anything. But then I found this:http://www.audi... | |
| Kubala-Sosna Sensation Your post is not remotely relevant to my very specific question. | |
| What's your OTL tube amp experience and suggestion? Dear Ralph,Where are you seeing semi-conductors? In the tube section of the Alieno, or in its power supply?Are you assuming a solid-state amplification stage based on the heat sink fins of the power supply unit? | |
| What's your OTL tube amp experience and suggestion? Dear Ralph,Thank you for your reply!Alieno swears up and down that semi-conductors are not doing any heavy lifting, and that the amp is not a hybrid amp, and that only tubes are providing both the voltage and the current amplification. Somehow the... |