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| six year old 6sn7's, pushing my luck? Thanks very much to all who replied. I'm grateful and listening happily.Rich | |
| Best Live Album Ever... My top 5 (or 6)Johnny Cash - Folsom PrisonLou Reed -- Rock and Roll AnimalLittle Feat -- Waiting for ColumbusThe Band (and friends) -- Last WaltzNirvana -- Unplugged in NYRoxy Music -- VivaFeel like I'm missing something obvious.... | |
| Pros and Cons of "Staying with" Analog and Vinyl I went looking for my cd of dark side of the moon. Turns out I don't own one. Pulled out and cleaned the vinyl. It's playing now in front of me as I write. Lp12, Helikon, tubes....I couldn't be happier. If I could magically turn everything into se... | |
| Oh how I wish Class D amps ... All I know is that I had Bryston 7B-st amps, traded them for Rowland 201's and they didn't cut it. Now I'm back to big beef -- Cary MB500's. Speakers were Maggie 3.6's and Aerial 9's.The Rowlands lacked oomph (in my system -- YMMV)Rich | |
| Quick poll How long have you been in this hobby? 37 years -- started in 1973, at age 12, when I inherited my older brother's Sansui 5000A, Sansui speakers (with those crazy wood grills) and a Dual turntable. He (who is 14 years older) went to Phase Linear gear with Ohm speakers. | |
| Arm Suggestions For Lyra Helikon I'm running an Ekos II with my LP12 and Helikon and I like it a lot. With the new Ekos SE out, you might be able to get an Ekos II at a good price.If you are in or near Portland Oregon, I'd be happy to let you listen and hear for yourself.Rich | |
| Your First Vinyl Album. 11 years old, Lowell Massachusetts, Garnick's Record Store, 1972, Steely Dan's Can't Buy a Thrill. Still own it. Still love it. Just listened to both sides the other day.Followed almost immediately by New Riders of the Purple Sage, Panama Red &... | |
| New Pass Amps? Or that what's good enough for Nelson Pass isn't feasible or responsible to produce as a consumer/production item.Call Pass and offer the boss $250K for his personal set up and I'll bet the amps become "available."Given Nelson Pass' reputation for... | |
| Aesthetix Collisto Signature or SLP 05 Preamp? I owned a Calypso and now have an SLP05. I don't know how the Callisto compares with the Calypso, but the Calypso cannot hold a candle to the Cary -- not in terms of sound quality, build quality, pleasure of use. This may not be much help, but my ... | |
| Hifi racks with isolation Another vote for the Grand Prix Monaco.I'll send in a vote for Jtinn, who runs a $200k+ system and deals a lot of high end gear. A lot. He also is a firm believer in Grand Prix. He sold me mine!While he's switched loyalties between amp companies a... | |
| what speaker cables for aerial acoustics model 9 I've been running Acoustic Zen Satori Shotgun and have loved it.Then I had a custom room built and I needed a longer run of smaller cables to thread in a tight space out of a cabinet, so I got Audience au24 biwires.The Audience, while more expensi... | |
| Choice on a $3,000 to $5,000 SS amp There are some Cary mb500's for sale in your price range (used). I love mine and they will drive anything. I had Rowland monos before and wasn't happy with class d.The Ayre is nice but monoblocks are so good at so many things...Can't go wrong with... | |
| Why I sell Wow -- you people are mistrustful -- heh heh.I, for one, have sold for perfectly respectable reasons every time. Seriously.I sold a preamp when I decided I wanted remote control.I then sold the next preamp when I wanted built in phono. I then sold... | |
| Difference between today and yesterday. I had those same Sansui speakers and they are what got me into hifi when I was a teen in the 70's and inherited them from my older bro -- who got the big pyramidal Ohm speakers.Were they better? Was I less fussy? Perhaps the fact that I was usuall... | |
| Cary SLP-05 power supply I have an SLP-05 and I got a pricey tube (don't remember what off the top of my head) from Upscale. On all the time. Nearly 2 years and counting.FWIW, I've shut the pre off a few times and it warms up in a heartbeat. You have to balance the damage... |