j-wall
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| How Soon Do You Realize You Don't Like a Piece of Gear? @larryi time and patience is a new experience for me. Most components and changes have been instantly beneficial and no question headed in the right direction. The VDH was not that, right out of the gate. I guess I anticipated it taking the 1-2 ho... | |
| How Soon Do You Realize You Don't Like a Piece of Gear? @testrun that's exactly what I was running from, the summer heat and tubes. My room is small is get overwhelmed with heat very easily. I have class D Atma-sphere's and I absolutely love them, I might just be forced to run tubes on the front end. A... | |
| How Soon Do You Realize You Don't Like a Piece of Gear? @cfarrow how long did you allow yours in your system? And there was so little information on The Grail, two or three reviews and one or two Agon threads so it was a blind experience. I may be too far into tubes, but again I'm going to allow it to ... | |
| How Soon Do You Realize You Don't Like a Piece of Gear? @whart you and @wrm57 are the reasons I picked up the Allnic originally. Super happy I did as well. I'll most likely keep it forever. I love this phono. Finding those Jeon 5U4G is a major trial and I've almost given up. I've considered the EML's b... | |
| How Soon Do You Realize You Don't Like a Piece of Gear? @wrm57 I've rolled a couple tubes in the power supply, but haven't ventured into the higher cost tubes yet. I'll keep those footers in mind. I had originally thought of putting the VDH in place for the summer due to heat factors, but I guess I sho... | |
| How Soon Do You Realize You Don't Like a Piece of Gear? @tablejockey I wish it was a lateral move to be honest. More of a downgrade in terms of emotion and connection. Greater detail, but not cohesive and engaging to be honest. I can see why people use these types of descriptors now. Gear really does u... | |
| How Soon Do You Realize You Don't Like a Piece of Gear? @lak I'm starting to believe this. I was expecting a lot more depth and lushness, but it just can't compete with tubes to be honest. The detail is great, but instruments and voices don't sound as real or natural versus the tubes. | |
| How Soon Do You Realize You Don't Like a Piece of Gear? @lewm this is along the lines of what I was thinking. Give it around 3-4 days to fully stabilize, being left on as recommend by VDH. Then moving on if it doesn’t suffice. I was in all honesty expecting to be moving on from a tube phono, but th... | |
| Those rare albums that are great on first listen. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Slowdive - Slowdive Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother Nothing - Guilty of Everything Midwife - Luminol Drug Church - Hygiene Favorite albums of the last probably 10 years for me. | |
| Those rare albums that are great on first listen. @mahgister thanks for the Four Seasons recommendation. I'm in no way shape or form a classical music listener, but have heard clips of these songs and have been looking to pick up a LP. This will be the version added to my want list on Discogs. Th... | |
| Accuphase or Leben for heavy metal To the people claiming you want a certain class of amp to play "demanding" metal is wrong. I run @atmasphere class D and a tube phono and pre and am completely satisfied with speed and detail. All amps will work, test a few if you can. Oh and I pl... | |
| Allnic H 7000 XLR out. What did you end up with @dentdog ? I run single ended from my Allnic's but am thinking of moving up the chain in cable quality and costs and moving to XLR. Curious what you need up with after all. | |
| A GOOD dry record cleaning device @whart IPA and water? That's a new one! 🍻😂 | |
| where I can buy tubes to my ALLNIC PRE (3A/110A and 3A/109B) Kevalin should be able to help you. John there is very communicative. | |
| Solid State Low powered Amplifiers Atma-sphere Class D and be done with it. Zero heat. Solved my upstairs summertime heat issue. I'll never sell them and they surpassed my BKK250 sonically. |