jimmyblues1959
Responses from jimmyblues1959
| Rumors of CD Demise Exagerated? New Hegel I stream most of my music out of convenience. For the most part the medium sounds very nice with hi resolution material. I still have enough CDs to justify owning a good CD player, so I use the Naim CDi that I inherited from my late Dad. It's a ... | |
| Antique Sound Labs ASL offered great sounding tube audio gear at extremely competitive prices. A number of times their gear won praise from Hi End audio magazines like The Absolute Sound and Stereophile. I still have my ASL MG Head DT headphone amplifier, purchased ... | |
| Wondering if anyone can identify the speaker in this screen grab + 2 for Avalon Ascents. Is that Robert Trollinger facing the camera? I believe that Robert is the CEO of Avalon Audio. | |
| After a long, long sleep: ML-335 +2 for using a variac. They work and are inexpensive in relation to the price of this amplifier. Not a bad idea to get it serviced at some point though. | |
| Gary Wright has passed away RIP Gary... Dream Weaver was one of my favorite songs growing up. 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿 | |
| Very good AES presentation on inter connects and ground loops. I have an AES input on my Schiit Modius AKM4493 dac. I’ve been tempted to purchase a transport with an AES output to use with the Modius, such as the Shandling ET3. As for using computers for streaming music, I have been using Amazon Fire tablets ... | |
| Dennis Had FIRE 300 B tube SET I see Quicksilver Audio mentioned here. I stopped by their Website yesterday and it seems that Mike is now only manufacturing two lower powered pairs of monoblock amplifiers (The KT mono and Mid mono) and an integrated amplifier. He still has a ... | |
| What new gear have you just bought? A DNA Starlett headphone amplifier from Donald North Audio. I received my Starlett in late July 2023 after an 18 month wait to have it custom built. Great headphone amplifier for dynamic headphones; especially the high impedance Sennheiser HD6XO... | |
| cart for Systemdek IIX I’m also in the process of upgrading my SYSTEMDEK IIX. I bought it nearly 20 years ago and have kept it stock with its Profile 1 tonearm. It came with a Grado Reference wood bodied MM phono cartridge and sounded quite nice. However, the bearings i... | |
| Upgrade my older Linn Sondek or move on? FWIW, I chose a different tack for a lot less money and it's a nice affordable turntable. I bought an old SYSTEMDEK IIX (the poor man's LP12) in good working order, ordered a NOS Jelco 370 oil damped tone arm from 1984 (period correct for the... | |
| Lush and Romantic Tube Amps @Bluethinker: I’ve never heard a piece of Jadis gear. Read many a review on the company over the years though and each characterized the sound of Jadis components as being very warm and lush sounding. Jadis equipment is quite expensive new, and e... | |
| Lush and Romantic Tube Amps Jadis are known for the type of lush sound you are looking for. Very expensive new, however, more reasonable on the used market and very well constructed. FWIW.. For lush sound, the type of tubes you are using plays an important role here. As ... | |
| Is low cost DAC worth it? Rather than focusing on the architecture of a dac I just listen to see if sounds good to me or not. I have found some inexpensive dac’s that do sound very good. My ifi Zen Dac Signature (original version) sounds really nice through both balanced a... | |
| What DAC to buy? IME certain dac's punch well above their price point. The ifi Zen Dac Signature (original version) is such a component. The V2 Signature is also said to be a benchmark product in the under $300 price category. Both are said to compete favorably... | |
| I'm going to buy my first tube amp. I need honest blunt opinions The Jadis gear has a history of retaining much of its value. Especially when purchasing it used. |