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Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ?
Meitner STR-50 Plus modded. Or any Meitner 55, 100,101. All meitner amps are the best over all sounding amp ever. Its just a great sounding amp. It sounds as if it has a tube pre . . . | 493 |
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Designer Hall of Fame
Ed Meitner. Hands down | 273 |
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Words From the Wise
FIRST AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!! You must use your imagination. Imaging,depth,and all the other things that you cant "hear" just close your eyes and tune out . . . | 194 |
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Relaxation Central
if you havent already been told the dell computers are the absolute worst and thats not just my opinion most agree check out emperical audio under computer audio.They tested many . . . | 70 |
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Tu-be or not tube
Yea I have a suggestion! Run from tube now before its to late!HA HA! just kidding but as you know it gets expensive and complicated. There are so many variables with tube. Just a . . . | 45 |
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Most powerful and popular EL34 tube amp?
The Copland 504 is a great amp. 50 watts is the rating but it will do 80 easy. It was 5000$ new in 2001. I own one. 4 KT-88,s or 6550,s | 31 |
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Wyred 4 Sound DAC1 or DAC2?
Yerude1 did you turn the dac on? Ive had many many dacs from bel cantos to Musiland I have heard many name brand dacs and Ive made my own dacs and modded many as well and I have to. . . | 30 |
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How do you train your ears?
Ok Live music is not your stereo! I am a professional musician and an audiophile and I can tell you that imaging, depth, and positioning are all tricks and trade of stereo. Never . . . | 30 |
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Cuul Running
Hey what drivers did you use and did you use a sealed or ported cabs and can you send some schematics if you have them?I too build my own speakers instead of buying since I am the . . . | 26 |
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Tubes made the difference
I dont think its so much the tubes as it was just a HUGE upgrade in preamps. B@K isnt really that great I mean for mass produced its alright but nowhere near the quality of VTL. I . . . | 24 |
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Wyred Dacs--Thoughts?
Philefreak I just got the Dac-1 and WOW you are right! Ive never really had a great dac persae but I dont think I could do better unless I added a zero to the price tag of 1000$ to. . . | 21 |
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From the Past
I would recommend MIT cables. I too am facing the delima of deleting a cd player and a tuner from my rig but just cant or wont do it. Good luck and happy listening | 20 |
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KT-88's better than EH ...
I love kt 88,s and I can attest that EH and jj,s are going to be hard to beat not to say it cant be done but really for the money diffrence there are no better tubes (kt88) out . . . | 19 |
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Danes dont lie :)
I bet it does sound nice | 18 |
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dr_brutallica first system
Wy dont you just buy two of the same cable? One cable with spaded ends and one with bannana ends and connect it that way! Ive done that in the past and even used both cable in . . . | 17 |
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SET pre-amplification?
To Almarg...Yes I used an old Carver wide band coupler which has prebuilt transformer and resistor step down from high gain to low gain for interconnects. I dont beleive you can . . . | 14 |
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ASIO/ JRiver versus Windows Media
I am using HP presario laptop customized 500 gig hard drive and there is no partition for ram its all used.And I use WAV not Lossless to rip sorry kinda new to this. And I have a . . . | 14 |
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Tube rolling in Yaqin Pacific Valve Tube Buffer
try 5654 tubes or mullard ef95 or 6ak5.i have had excellent results with all of those however i recomend getting russian american and tung sol [which can be found esaliy on ebay or. . . | 13 |
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The $ Drain in the Basement
Why dont you toe in your speakers? It would make your upper octaves really shine and make you upper and lower midrange sound less confused and or congested and will definatly help . . . | 12 |
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eac vs windows...artwork help etc...
I at first thought eac was better so I re ripped all my music in lossless on eac but a couple of albums I couldent. Well now I have a new dac the W4S and now the wmp ripped tracks . . . | 12 |
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Opinions -Evolving
Please get that speaker off your rack! the vibrations are killing your sound quality. If you dont understand vibration that doesnt make it go away kind of like god. In small doese . . . | 11 |
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Best sounding PC for adudio may vary
Thanks for the all the great feed back and epecially the Mac ideas guys! Ive heard others say Mac is the best practical everyday use/music server for audio use. My new HP has the . . . | 11 |
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Steve's A / V System
LOVE THE SPEAKERS!!!!! I am a DIYer aswell and really love to see other audiophiles building their own speakers.Maybe we could trade designs sometime. I am using a design now that . . . | 11 |
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humble beginnings
Seriously look on here for a set of MIT terminator 2 speaker wires. There up here all the time for around 1 to 2 hundred $,s and you will LOVE what you find! I never would have . . . | 10 |
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PS audio digital link 3 or similiar Dac
Wyred 4 sound is almost unbeatable as far as price. To get much better sound qaulity you would have to add another zero on to the 1000$ price tag. If you dont like it (I doubt you . . . | 10 |
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Paradise found!
I noticed what appears to be APC or some other battery back up device and it appears you have 2 and I have the same thing but mine regenerate 120 vac / 60 hz and I use mine on the . . . | 9 |
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EVS modded BDP-83 , or separate DAC ?
Go with the Audio-GD DAC any of theyre DAC,s are under priced and over built. I dont know why audiophiles refuse to embrace Audio-GD im guessing when they do the prices will . . . | 8 |
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What have you learned?
Thanks so much! I have done away with the server and I am just using a laptop now and I like this better than the server and I have more features on my laptop. Thanks guys | 6 |
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not so fancy stuff
I agree on building your own speakers. If you can build those rears then I have a dandy and VERY simple design that will blow away many other speakers in the 10 grand realm for . . . | 6 |
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Jays Addiction
My best rig ever | 5 |
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My First system
I was about the same age when my father and brother gave me my first stereo and I was overjoyed! I went on to build my own speakers since I couldnt afford to buy any nice speaker. . . . | 5 |
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My new system
HEY CHECK OUT THIS SITE pacificvalve.com They have a huge selection of affordable and very decent equipment. I recomend since you have Krell amp and some ML,s you might have some . . . | 5 |
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75 ohm V.S.300 ohm and S.Q.
TO Al... most all RCA cables are 300 ohm so thats what i was refering to with 300 vs 75 ohm | 4 |
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Copland CTA504 tube amp - how good are they?
I have a 504 and love my amp. It is mated with a wyred 4 sound dac and it is worth every penny if you like smooth warm mids and very rich..I reccomend either ts 6550 reissues or eh. . . | 3 |
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tubes in a Copland 504???
CAN you use KT-88,s??? Please thats the main concern now | 3 |
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Cary sweet 807????
Thanks I will | 3 |
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Cheap College Setup
hey you should deffinately consider the audio gd p-2 preamp. It not only is absolutely amazing in stok form but you can change out sound modules which clones other hi end brand . . . | 2 |
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Piega and Aloia
Nice! I like it, but I have no idea what Milpai is even attempting to ask! Other than that man I like it | 2 |
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car cables for home???
It does tend to make one ponder his finacial reasoning for the purchase of highend cables and thats about all I can say oh and I have some nice cables for sale LOL | 2 |
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do f-mods work?
Thanks Nmmusicman I DEFINATELY dont want ANY of that | 2 |
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audio Gd dac 19 Df vs beresford TC 7520
Yes! the Audio GD blows it away! Dont judge the audio GD equipment based on a price basis or you will just be wasting time as all the Audio-GD stuff is way under priced. There 1000. . . | 1 |
