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Perfect Pop Songs
My "all time favourite" pop song;Edwyn Collins - A girl like youhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oqJ0JpMj6I I meant to add that it contains the great line:"Too many protest singers, not enough protest songs" 
Perfect Pop Songs
My "all time favourite" pop song;Edwyn Collins - A girl like youhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oqJ0JpMj6I 
Adding a subwoofer into my system
Well Mr fuzztone don't get aggravated with me, I'm just an old school, old guy who began this stuff years ago, when it was wires from pickup to amp amp to speakers - end of.  Now it's multiple outputs and inputs and different instruction options w... 
Adding a subwoofer into my system
Well that's very whimsical Mr MC but I'm not sure quite how to connect Mr W's wires to Mr Cambridge or Mr McIntosh  
Listening chair
I thought I would share the details of my design and manufacturing journey on this forum:The floor in my listening room (AKA sitting room) is concrete with insulation, battens and an MDF sub floor, dense foam underlay and wool carpeting. I have co... 
Beatles best album and concert dvd?
Deviating slightly within this thread, the huge musical and cultural upheaval that the Beatles were part of in the 60's shouldn't be overlooked. As a teenager in the rather drab UK of the early part of that decade I wish I could have foreseen wha... 
Speaker design, KenjiT and others.
Some religions would have it that "only God is perfect." The Japanese would say that something should have "Wabi Sabi" ie: nothing is perfect, the flaw in any made object ( or system ) sets its place in time and the universe. We should embrace an... 
Tube or SS
In the spirit of my aim to simplify and de-clutter that wouldn't work as the Cambridge Edge NQ has a pre which is why I matched it to the MC275, my thought is to go SS with another amp or stay with the tubes. 
Tube or SS
Of course, but before I do that I wonder what other members views are and maybe if any have had a similar situation 
Tweaks you got rid of because they were not effective (enough)?
My best tweak has been fresh batteries in my hearing aids !! 
What tube amp for Harbeth 40.1
I stream a Cambridge Edge NQ through balanced cables to a McIntosh 275 into Harbeth 7-ES3 speakers and I am extremely happy with the result, as I age, my hearing has deteriorated so I can't analyse the result except to say it is the best music I h... 
Bass boom and neighbours
Thanks all for your responses ( even the flippant one ) to clarify - there is no tonal balance / equalisation on the Cambridge or the Mac, the speakers - B & W CM10's with the foam plugs fitted in the port tubes are placed 1m from a wall and n... 
headphones for tube system
Thank you for your suggestion, I shall be investigating further and demo-ing some options within my price range.Re my comment  - did you see the link ? I believe it has now been deleted by Audiogon so I feel vindicated.RegardsXian 
headphones for tube system
Thank you newbee - I'll certainly check that. As you note; most headphone amps have volume control. 
headphones for tube system
Thanks - but this appears to be just a cheap marketing site