How about you SY, which flavour do you prefer
I'm a cold weather guy. Texas weather was hell for me during the three years I lived there, but the music sure made up for it. I'd move back to Austin without hesitation.
My wife, an ex-musician, is a fine judge. She thinks that fashion audio fans are morons.
I've got only the speakers suspended in a fashion like 45 indicated in the link
of the Rega suspended arm, with elastic - and each band is detatched from the other as well. The results are remarkable, so I can only imagine what the whole system could (not) introduce in terms of:
cleanness
creamyness
constantness
consciousness etc etc
of the Rega suspended arm, with elastic - and each band is detatched from the other as well. The results are remarkable, so I can only imagine what the whole system could (not) introduce in terms of:
cleanness
creamyness
constantness
consciousness etc etc
I've grown to accept a £3500 CD player and a Pass amplifier too but there will always be the vinyl and tube lovers. I've built several tube pre-amps over the years but I've sold every one of them as I found them lifeless and uninspiring to listen to. Maybe my newest build, the Impasse might change my mind.
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Well, I should qualify my statement, that poor recordings are often better with a bit of the vinyl and tube "romantic" sound. On good recordings though, it puts a veil over the details that isn't to my taste.
Excluding power amp output stage valves and transformers, I seriously doubt you'd be able to differentiate in a double blind test (in all cases).
If we restrict the test to well-designed OTL tube amps, you may very well be right. I think the "tube sound" we're talking about is the euphonic lushness of a SET amp, or at least one with an output transformer.
That's pretty funny. I don't hear any "romance" when I listen to records thru my tube amp.
jeff
That's pretty funny. I don't hear any "romance" when I listen to records thru my tube amp.
jeff
I'm not good at describing audio impressions. To my ears, vinyl and tubes round off a lot of the hard edges in poor recordings.
It's worse than that. It is possible that you were beating your wife. It is extremely unlikely that a turntable is better as a sound reproduction mechanism than any minimally-competent CD player.fpitas said:
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