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| Abigail Washburn Song of the Traveling Daughter Washburn is a worthwhile artist. I have two of her recordings. I've noticed a spot or two on City of Refuge where her vocal suddenly gets weird and muffled, then clears up. | |
| To re-cap or not to re-cap? That is the question You should replace any 40 year old electrolytic caps or else move on to newer stuff. Period. As has been mentioned, parts quality in 2020 is much better than what was available 40 years ago, and electrolytic caps don't last anywhere near 40 year... | |
| Sound quality impact - preamp vs power amp? I am generally in agreement with the line of reasoning advanced by threeeasypayments. But you need to decide what you are trying to accomplish. Are you trying to make a change that will give you an incremental improvement in sound quality? Or a... | |
| Favorite Beethoven Symphony Recordings Agree on the HvK 1963 cycle. The 3rd and 7th remain my favorites to this day. | |
| Questioning Tannoy, Tekton or other possible change. You've assembled a system that looks like it ought to be quite good. Unfortunately, I haven't heard any of it. I think you've gotten a good bit of thoughtful advice here. If you could articulate what it is you might like to achieve, that would ... | |
| Sofia Electric Blue 6SN7 I bought a pair of the blue 6SN7 tubes to try in my M-60's which use a total of 4 6SN7s. I went with the C grade tubes which were ~100 each. One failed at about 6 months, but the other one is still going strong a year and a half later. My tubes... | |
| Favorite Symphonies Quiz This is fun and a bit of a challenge. I'm going with:1. Brahms2. Sibelius3. Mahler4. Shostakovich5. Mendelssohn6. Tchaikovski7. Beethoven8. Schubert9. BrucknerThis arrangement permitted me to choose my favorite classical and post classical symph... | |
| Audiophile demographics? Many people talking but few of them know-the soul of a woman was created below. | |
| Second system recommendations $5K budget This may stretch your budget a bit, but I recommend that you consider a Lyngdorf 2170 integrated as your foundational piece. They will go for about $2500 used. The internal DAC is really good and the room perfect software really makes optimizing... | |
| How Long Did It Take You To Build Your Dream Setup? 51 years and counting. | |
| room setup I think the main issue is optimizing symmetry forward of the listening position. If both short walls are perfectly symmetrical left to right, and in either case, both right and left walls are perfectly symmetrical forward of the listening positio... | |
| Is there a Solid State amp that can satisfy a SET guy? Mike, obviously we are in agreement on the M-60's. They are also my destination amps. I have no interest in looking elsewhere. I also agree that when everything else is right, or close to it, the M-60's deliver the best of all worlds. Sweetnes... | |
| Is a balanced XLR cable inherently less critical than a single ended RCA one? Mike, I used Mogamis between my Coincident CSL preamp and my M-60's. I changed the room a bit and I needed a longer pair ~30 ft, and couldn't get what I wanted from Mogami. I bought a pair of Signal Cable Silver XLRs at about 5 x the cost of th... | |
| Is 1990's equipment vintage? @au_lait, I am attempting an upgrade. I will PM you. | |
| Starter turntable and MM cartridge recommendations Thanks Len, I will make sure my daughter sees this. I hadn't heard of U-Turn. Looks kind of interesting. |