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Electric cars will ruin late night listening?
It will be a long time until electric cars are less expensive than their gasoline/diesel counterparts.  there won‘t even be any gas/diesel counterparts in 15 - 20 years. Have a look at EU/British legislation and the stated policy of leading aut... 
Will DAC always sound better going straight into a Power Amplifier?
Make sure you have it professionally reconditioned. Components like capacitors will need to be replaced, pots cleaned… of it isn’t likely to sound very good. generally, a wholesale change of capacitors is not required. Film capacitors age very ... 
Mono Recommendations
  Otis Reeding - “Sitting by the Dock of Bay” sounds good even when using a stereo cartridge on the mono LP. I have an original stereo  pressing of “Otis Blue“ which sounds pretty.fine to me. There is a certain ‘directness‘ to the sound whic... 
Are Harbeth the only warm and euphonic speakers in town ?
+1 Sonus Faber, very competitiive with Harbeth  
Sad to say I need a new amp…
pray it was the mains transformer and not the outputs - far easier to replace.. lovely amp  
Bill Withers has passed
thanks for the memories, RIP..  
Audio Note Power Amps
As far as I am aware the Cabarnet‘s output transformers run the standard 600 ohms output which would mate perfectly with 600 ohm transformer input of the Ankoru and its ilk.  
Tekton Design - New IRL Technology - Lifelike, Real, Immersive
to an acoustical physicist  care to name names ?  
shiit Freya+ muffles the base? Recommendation for preamp please
ARC, Supratek, EAR, Atmasphere…  
Looking for warm tube preamp (should pair well with Pass power amp), budget $6000
For the Cary SLP-05, it uses 6 6SN7’s. mea culpa - should have read more carefully I assumed ARC  
Looking for warm tube preamp (should pair well with Pass power amp), budget $6000
If you want to get a warmer sound from your SLP-05 try some NOS tubes. I love the old Sylvania tubes in it. Fuller and smoother then the stock tubes and just all around better sound. If you want a much warmer sound try NOS RCA tubes. I prefer the... 
Why is most everything remastered?
yes, but what about the MUSIC ?  
GOOD TUBES, BAD TUBES
to maximise tube life always check your filament voltages and get them to run just under spec. Amazing how many amps have filaments running hot, especially the 110/220V Chinese jobs. Use padding resistors to lower voltages and extend your listenin... 
Russian tube supply issues
@malibu457 libu why can’t the U.S. start making audio tubes? have you any idea what tooling up from scratch would cost ?  
Audio Note Power Amps
+100 your friend is not that well informed. A DHT Supratek would not be disgraced by anything in the AN range and uses the 5881 in shunt (as opposed to AN series) regulation.