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TV's... what does the typical audiophile have?
1988 27" Mistubishi. They made great units! 
Pet audiophile peeves - name yours
1) "I'm rating it an 8 but it's closer to a 9"2) "Minty"3) "Great product. Heartbroken to have to give this up. Worked great in my system" etc. in conjunction with "Low hours, lightly used" etc.4) People who get snarky over a typo. We're not writi... 
Anyone know how good MHDT Labs Paradisea DAC is?
Raymond- I have not compared the 6385 to the 396 so I can offer no insight on their relative strengths and weaknesses. I believe that others have used NOS 2C51 to good effect. The 6385 is clearly better than any 5670 that I tried.From the experien... 
Anyone know how good MHDT Labs Paradisea DAC is?
I have owned a Paradisea for several months now and am very pleased with it. Prefer it to a RAM modded BelCanto DAC2 and a Modwright modded CIA VDA1. A Monarchy 24/96 DIP improved the sound. I use plain old Blue Jeans digital cables on the Monarch... 
Anyone remember The Warehouse?
In the LA area there used to Cal Stereo (and their fast talking radio ads with Tom Campbell) pushing low budget gear, Leo's Stereo (also low budget gear), Rogers Sound Labs (good mid fi), Paris Audio (Nak, KEF, B&K, etc), Dow Sound, Federated ... 
River cables anyone?
I have used the RAM Canare 4S11 with locking WBT bananas for almost two years and they have served me well. Ugly they may be but I am pleased with the sound. Never tried the River Cable but Audioholics gave one of their speaker cables a positive r... 
Time for new tubes.. which ones?
The Cryoed 12AX7 were not as good as I had hoped. The Cryoed 5814 Sylvanias sounded very, very nice but did not have quite enough gain. So much for the Cryoed ones for now.I currently have GE 5 Star 6201 in there and they have impressed me. 6201 a... 
Time for new tubes.. which ones?
I just ordered a few different pairs of tubes for my TAD-150 to try out.Cryoed Sylvania 5814A black ribbed plates NOSCryoed Sovtek 12AX7LPS NIBCryoed Tung Sol 12AX7 ECC803S Gold Pin NIBI'll post when I have checked them out.Also head good things a... 
CD sound quality
This may be something of a hijack if you don't have a PC. However if you do then there is something you can do to drastically improve CD sound. First, pick up a newer used higher end universal player (I picked up a Pioneer Elite 59avi on Ebay for ...