lou_setriodes
Responses from lou_setriodes
| tube info needed I 2nd Solo's comments. If you want to tube roll, start with the 6sn7's. Changing the input tubes will make a much larger difference than the output tubes. | |
| can a tube-o-phile be happy with ss? For me, every time I have SS gear, I either find myself either changing gear a lot or not even listening to it at all. But whenever I've had tube gear, I go many years without a single change in gear - which says one thing to me - I can't be happy... | |
| Best Neil Young Album? duh, I meant "Time Fades Away" not "Tonite's the Night" | |
| What is the one CD you can't find? Gregg Allman/Laid BackGil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson | |
| Solid state amp/Tube Preamp. Possible? just like Missioncoonery, I too ran with SS amps and tube preamps for a long time and never gave thought to impedence mismatching...it always sounded great...the tubes added that extra warmth, I highly recommend the combination but in the end, its... | |
| Best CDP under $500?..... Used market If it were me, I'd keep the PD-65, sell the NAD preamp and with the proceeds + the $500, I'd buy a nice tube preamp. The NAD pre is the weakest link in your system, IMO...good luck. | |
| Best Neil Young Album? Tonight's the Night, Gold Rush, Harvest...My next door neighbor in school had to blast "Last Dance" every morning about 7 AM so the whold dorm could hear it."Wake Up its a Monday morning" - I'll never forget that song | |
| Jethro Tull...any cd's to stay away from? After reading this thread, will have to get out my Heavy Horses LP for a listen...have Aqualung on cassette that was recorded off the radio and it sounds pretty good, probably recorded from a cd... | |
| My favorite Steely Dan song has to be... Your gold teeth IIRoyal ScamPretzel LogicThe Fez...just too many good ones | |
| Stewart Copeland, Incredible gonna have to break out my Police vinyl after reading this thread...Question though...there was an 80's movie with Mickey Rourke (as Motorcycle Boy), Matt Dillon as his brother and another popular actor of the day and the song at the end definitel... | |
| mixing and matching..... I have Straightwire LSI, Straightwire Encore, Monster M1000, SilverAudio 4.0 bullets, and some custom silver cable...I often wonder about that too especially because I have a switchbox so the cable coming from the component to the switchbox is dif... | |
| Preamp w/mm Phono Stage for under $300? If I may offer you some good advice. For $300, you have several choices on ebay and a'gon. If it were me, my first choice would be a dyna PAS 2 or PAS 3. With this updated, I think this is easily the best sounding thing you'll find. I had a Music ... | |
| Personal speaker evolution Sound ResearchSmaller Advent LoudspeakerJamo Compact 50's & 70's & Triad SubwooferMirage 660'sProAc Studio 1Celestion C7Celestion C3ADS CM6Chateau Research 1.5Vandersteen 1BKlipsch KG 3.5Tannoy D90Omega Grande 8I seem to keep speakers long... | |
| Personal Preamp Evolution. 1. Luxman - full featured one w/pretty rosewood case2. Acoustat TNP3. Dyna PAS 3 4. Dyna PAS 25. Music Reference RM5 mkII6. Hegeman Hapi 27. Superphon Rev Basic DMMany years spent with tube amp w/volume control and passive switch box and also tube... | |
| Which is the most tubelike solid state amp around If you really want a SS amp that won't break the bank and sounds like tubes, try B&K Components. I had an ST-140 for many years and later upgraded to the B&K EX442 Sonata. When I sold the EX442, I quickly hooked up a pr of Paoli M60 monobl... |