Quote: Originally Posted by earwicker7 Yes, I have. I switched to 1950s Telefunken 12AU7 for the input and 1960s RCA Bronzeplate 5687 for the output. The bronzeplates made a HUGE difference, much more than the Telefunkens, although they are also nice. A huge difference in sound...

Quote: Originally Posted by tkam The 12au7 is the lowest gain of that whole 12xx7 family of tubes. 12au7 has an amplification factor of 20. 60 for the 12at7 and 100 for the 12ax7. Does anybody know were the 5963 that Ray sent out with the amp falls on the gain list in the 12xx7...

First off congrats on the B-52 earwicker7, it is one hell of an amp, so much so that I plan on getting one for myself in a couple months. As for the volume issue, did Ray send you both 12au7's for the gain and the pre or did he send you 12au7's for the gain and 12ax7's for the pre?? If he did...

Got to give the "cool ruler" some love. I have a handful of Isaacs cds now and I love them all. The early stuff can sound rough, but a lot of his other releases also sound very good. Night Nurse being one of the best. "Open The Door" from 2004 I believe, also sounds good. In fact most reggae cds...

I'm very happy with the Pentax 6x7 I have had for the last couple of years. I have the 45mm, 55mm, and 200mm lenses for it. A great 6x7 SLR that takes awesome pictures. If all goes well I will get a Ebony 45s (4x5) in about a year or so. I can't wait to get movements on a camera. There have been...

Probably better for the ride out, but anyway: Gregory Isaacs: Night Nurse

At best, "EMBEDDED COMMERCIALS" or any other utter lame advertising from McDonald's, and at worst, a gun to my head will still not get me into one of their ****** sorry excuse for a eating establishment. The food is so bad it is sick and I don't understand how anybody can eat it, even just a...

Quote: Originally Posted by PFKMan23 Now I don't know when your SDS was built, but I've seen figures from 8k-15k for an SDS XLR. Just looking at the state of the market, I'm guessing no lower than about 10k, for it's current price. Now I know that PATB just ordered one a short while ago...

Great song. Here are a couple other versions: 1. The Allmans also have a version on the Atlanta Internation Pop Festival cd, 7/5/70, Instant live at Fox Threate 9/26/04, Instant live at Post-Gazette Pavilion 7/26/03. I bunch of other versions by the Allmans I'm sure but the Fillmore East is...

Hmm, well I guess that Aman, Antiant, Tyrion, and myself are the only Soulive fans on head-fi. Now is this a good thing or a bad thing?? LoL

Ya Soulive is funkier than hell. I have three of their albums and I love each one. Doin' Something smokes and has a kickass horn section with none other than Fred Wesley among others. Not a weak track on the whole album and some of the nastiest, dirtiest, sweatiest, stinkiest grooves out there...

Yes a stand alone cd player is always better than a pcdp for a number of reasons. If going for a full sized cdp go for something better than the entry level stuff. Buy used and a generation or two old like a Rotel 991-AE. The 991 was $1300 when it came out but now you can find them on audiogon...

Nice source. The Reimyo is suppose to be the best one box player out there. I would love to hear one someday. How does it sound with your rs-1's? Is there a big difference between the Reimyo and the source it replaced with the rs-1's? What did the Reimyo replace anyway? With a SDS-XLR in there...

Quote: Originally Posted by DarkAngel I would recommend one of the Shunyata Hydra 4's over any of the similar passive PS Audio units I have tried (UO etc).........new Shunyata Hydras are very high quality, sound great and sell at very little discount used if you ever see one (which...

A couple more things. I rip/burn at 4x but what to try 1x to see if that helps. I also what to try a higher speed to see if I can detect more of a loss in sound quality. I use the the most secure and accurate settings in EAC. I use EAC as my burning software too. I wonder if differant software...