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| Tubes Recommendation for McIntosh Preamp I sent you a message with my email address i’ll email it to you i can’t figure out how to post it here. Ive also put it in my system pictures for anyone else. good for all 12 series small signal tubes like the 12ax7, 12at7, 12au7, etc. chart says ... | |
| Tubes Recommendation for McIntosh Preamp I'm using some RCA 12ax and 7AT's not the most expensive tubes in the NOS market (I payed $25 each)but they have similar detail to the JJ stock tubes and have much better sound staging and bass control, not overly rich like some of the other NOS t... | |
| Tubes Recommendation for McIntosh Preamp I have a C2700 with similar tube complement, 2 for line stage, 2 for MC, 2 for MM, I replaced them with NOS tubes and its much much better then the stock JJ tubes mac uses (way to bright, toneless). matching is cheep, why would you not get them ... | |
| Importance of a DAC's elements Do not buy a DAC and streamer together get them separate, unless your starting out in the entry level. I know there are many decent streamer/DAC's but from my experience the DAC is always the week spot in the Streamer DAC's. Second find a streame... | |
| This One has Me Stumped Must be your tuner, you better sell it to me. not that there is anything wrong with my TU-9500, but I do like the TU-X1 looks better ;-) ok maybe I'm a bit jealous as they are hard to find priced reasonably, mind you probably the best tuner ever... | |
| Moved from Logitech Squeezebox to Cambridge CXN V2 w/NAS - sound not as good Could be your accustomed to a bright sounding Streamer and now have a more neutral one and your questioning the difference. I'd try living with it for a while to see if your end up preferring it. if not move on from the Cambridge and try another. ... | |
| Looking for information on who repairs NAT Audio Preamps and Amps Try googling your local area for electronics Techs/repair facilities, there is rarely anything in any audio equipment that the majority of good techs can't deal with. this is not rocket science after all. Only a few software issues. etc. would dem... | |
| Use escrow service to pay for speakers? Its unfortunate the USA doesn't have E-transfers like we do in Canada makes this so much easier than dealing with third party payment systems like PayPal. But in my experience dealing with buyers and seller in the US is to make sure you have a goo... | |
| Advice on next step for vinyl chain The Kenwood is a good starter table, not the end all but for what they cost on the used market for what you get a descent set up. the Ortofon Blue is probably your first step in upgrade, ok cart on many basic tables but the Kenwood is good enough ... | |
| Fritz Carrera 7 Be and 300B power amp? At 87db I'm going to say no. In my experience with 300b amps you need at a min 95db to have enough for dynamic swings. also to consider SET 300b's amps really only work properly in the first half of the power delivery they tend to distort fast at ... | |
| speakers similar to focal kanta 1 Used market interest you at all, or are you a new only buyer. | |
| Hugo 2 streaming 2go? I use the 2go and the companion 2Yu ( you don't need the 2yu as the Hugo does that job) as a streamer with my Chord Dave DAC, I like the fact is has no app for music or music streaming services. the app only connect to the 2go and then allows you ... | |
| Why do some amplifiers throw a bigger soundstage than others? Why do tube amps generally have larger sound stages? maybe its a harmonic effect some amp do them well some don't. Is it distortion effects, even/odd order effects? clarity maybe, but I've heard some older vintage tube gear throw a huge sound st... | |
| Recommended RCA sub-woofer cable? Thank you. "directional RCA cables" what constitute a directional RCA cable? in my opinion there is no such thing in an AC circuit, other then the shielding grounding scheme, if used. | |
| Streamer Fidelity: Aurender N200 vs A200 and Lumin U2 vs T3 It was the U2 mini i believe, it was i think $3500ish Canadian$ so around $2500USD if my memory serves, great for for the money bested the Aurender from my perspective at half the cost. Easier App to use as well. In store demo did not overly just... |