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| Best Preamp under 10K General Electric mono phono $12.95! Circa 1957. Single 6sc7. Beats any phono up to $65,000! | |
| Best EL-34 Amps? I have not listened to any new EL-34 amps and have no desire to, BUT I am certain that Sol Marantz and the Altec engineers had a far greater understanding on how to design tube circuits and still they could not get the harshness out of the EL-34's... | |
| Best EL-34 Amps? The El-34 (6CS7) began life in the mid-fifties as being the highest power pentode. It was designed for use in Walt Disney "Fantasia" film. It trickled down to consumer use and was sold to sucker "hi-fi" enthusiasts in the late 50's who could then ... | |
| Best EL-34 Amps? None. The El-34 is the WORST sounding audio output tube ever made. There is no way to make it sound like anything but a freight train. It has no redeeming sound qualities. I suggest trying a 6L6, 6BQ5, or a 45 output to hear the music instead of h... | |
| What is the best phono preamp you have heard? The General Electric MONO one tube(6SC7) phono preamp circa 1955- 959. 1957 Price: $10.95. YES, it is the First and still the Best preamp ever made (millions sold over the years). This is the preamp that started the moving magnet revolution. SIMPL... | |
| Best Cartridges for the Money You've Experienced General Electric variable reluctance ($10 NEW price 1957, $25 USED price 2008, stylus still avaiable at Radio Shack for $10.) | |
| Brag About Your Vinyl Collection 100,000+ mint clasical. I live in the motherload of used vinyl | |
| best preamp ever - cost is no object I have been using the General Electric single tube mono 6SC7 phono preamp for 40 years. Original NEW cost $12.99 (twelve dollars and 99 cents). I have A-B compared this to 20 professional radio station phono preamps and it was the winner. I have n... | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? I use a SUPERIOR belt drive mechanism. under the platter a large 10lb. live rat (rodent) runs on a BELT, the heavy 50lb platter (and three ball govenor) does indeed smooth out any speed irreglarties. There is NO measurable rumble. Completely indep... | |
| Burned out hi fi salesman The reason that all the components HE has heard sound within 5% of each other is based on the principle that 95% of ALL stereo equipment is absolute JUNK to begin with. | |
| Is live reproduction the goal of audio? To ACTUALLY perfectly reproduce a live orchestra is TOTALLY 100% impossible. Just as a television cannot create a living person. I my opinion the "GOAL" of home audio is to recreate as closely as possible the sound that the recording engineer hear... | |
| Biggest Baddest Audio Cables I use common HOME DEPOT #14 AC SOLID COPPER, plastic insulated, HOUSE WIRE (15 cents/foot) for my RCA interconnects. I run a SINGLE WIRE from preamp to amp without any shielding. The amp and pre-amp are then grounded together with common standed w... | |
| Top Ten Speaker Cables of all time?... Duanegoosen: I recently replaced my #14 guage HOME DEPOT solid core plastic insulated 115 AC volt HOUSE WIRE speaker cables with #12(thicker diameter) guage and I noticed a dramatic improvement. I am now using a SINGLE WIRE #14 guage 115 AC Volt H... | |
| What was you most expensive accidental damage? Bigjoe: I agree completely with your philosophy that it is not worth giving up ones freedom for revenge, this #$%!@#s has recieved his punishment by becoming a slave to alcohol and by his self induced alchoholic brain damage comas, and you and I a... | |
| What was you most expensive accidental damage? BIGJOE: You should have poked pencils in his ears while he was passed out. |