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| NOS Tube Recommendation for Quicksilver Phono Pre Amp New Teles are JJ (Slovakian). Even supposedly vintage Teles could be Chinese fakes. These days, the fakes look pretty authentic—they have the diamond molded into the glass like the real thing. Anything good has fake copies. I’ve seen fake Aud... | |
| NOS Tube Recommendation for Quicksilver Phono Pre Amp The Telefunkens I run in my phono stage are the crazy expensive ECC 803S (equivalent of 12AX7). I have heard others, but I don’t recall specifics. | |
| NOS Tube Recommendation for Quicksilver Phono Pre Amp Is the cartridge loading the same for both the new and old phono stage/section? That warm and "wet blanket" sound can be the product of incorrect loading. If you have options, try a different setting for loading. The right value for loading is ... | |
| Straight tonearms without offset angle Wow! That talk by J. Carr covers a lot of topics in a very informative manner. The explanations are terrific and balanced, with pluses and minuses of various design choices explained very well. This is one of the few long discussions worth the v... | |
| Straight tonearms without offset angle The Viv arm causes a deviation from tangency of up to 10 degrees at the start of a record and this declines to zero before again increasing to 2 degrees. This means FAR less skating than the skating force of an arm with an offset angle of 22 degr... | |
| Mark Knopfler & James Taylor toddsyr, I like it when I discover that a song as additional verses that performers choose not to perform. Some songs, like "Anything Goes" has a lot of verses that are no longer sung because they involve scandals that were well known at the ti... | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? It sounds like you don't use much more than 3-5 watts per channel now. Why would an amplifier much more powerful than the 135 watt per channel amp improve on the matter? It seems like the only metric people care about is power, so more must be b... | |
| Mark Knopfler & James Taylor Jacques Brel and Rod McKuen wrote "Seasons in the Sun" and Terry Jacks performed a shortened version of that song. The original is a bit creepy because the dead narrator, in the last verse, tells his wife he knows she had been cheating on him and... | |
| Truly Stunning Vinyl Album The "Tea for the Tillerman" that I have is on an original Island release, not the Analogue Productions version and it is a very good sounding record (much better sounding than the original US release (A&M?)). I was surprised how much more dyn... | |
| Truly Stunning Vinyl Album I haven't heard the Monk Mo-Fi one step, but, if it is like other such albums it would be terrific sounding. Mo-Fi has taken a lot of heat because they have made most of these albums from digital masters. Analogue purist hate the very idea that... | |
| Alternative absorbent acoustic material? I heard a room at a shop that was extensively treated with Dow Corning fiberglass panels with Dow Corning supervising the design/installation. This room, at a local audio store was intended to showcase such treatment. The result, to my ears was ... | |
| Truly Stunning Vinyl Album I still don’t know the record, but, Musselwhite on Crystal Clear Records must be something special. | |
| Truly Stunning Vinyl Album I think it is terrific that you have snagged some of the recommendations. I have both the Chet Baker and the Du Pre/Baker albums and they are great both musically and sonically. I wish I had your Nagra album; I heard it and it is a great compila... | |
| What are the different Levels of quality in Power supplies Transformers and Chokes I am not a builder so my experience is largely second hand. A local shop builds its own tube electronics--mostly line stages, phono stages, amplifiers and integrated amplifiers. Many of these custom components are extremely expensive. For many ... | |
| Truly Stunning Vinyl Album The Rickie Lee Jones version is quite good musically, and the EP it is on is VERY good soundwise. Another track, Tom Waits' "Rainbow Sleeves" can be a bit demanding for some cartridges where she comes close to overloading the microphone. I've ac... |