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...

I use EAC and a Plextor burner for ripping/burning and the copies I have made do NOT sound like the originals. I want to try a bunch of differant cdr's in the future to see which sounds best as I think that is where most/all of the sound quality is lost. So far I have used Taiyo Yuden and Mitsui...

Ref CD7 Tubed Player Make sure to scroll to the bottom of the page for pics. I have had the Audio Research CD3 for about a year now and like the player a lot. Great analog presentation with tons of detail. Works very well with my upgraded MPX3. For a source upgrade I was thinking about...

Quote: Originally Posted by IronLion If you want to hear an up and coming (and great) band that plays some serious rocking/jamming blues check out North Mississippi Allstars. Their two albums, "Shake Hands With Shorty", and "51 Phantom" are really, really good. In addition, they have a...

Go for it. I have had the Golden Refs for about 2 years now and I like them a lot although I have been trying some other cables that do away with some issues I had with the Golden Refs. I will write up some thoughs about the ic's in a couple weeks.

Good God, what does it smell like at Head-Fi Meets with all this stuff mixing together????

Hows this: Get up at 5:00am to get ready to go take sunrise shots of the fall colors in the mountains. Get to the trailhead at 6:00am, it's about 30-33 F. Get going up the trail to warm myself up. Get to the location I scouted the year before and setup. Its cold and my hands among other...

Being a total Warren Haynes fanboy and a huge Derek Trucks fan I'll throw in my two cents. As far as slide I think they are about the same with maybe Derek getting a slight lead. They just have different styles, tone, technique, etc. Like Canman said Derek is more jazz, Warren more blues. Derek...

Super old school: Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds (set in the Forgotten Realms world) on a Commador 64. Game directly run from a 5in floppy, used a tv for monitor. These two got me into the ad&d world. Would skip about a week of school a couple of times to play(6th grade)...

Quote: Originally Posted by grawk Matt Abst - Drums (Blue Floyd, Gov't Mule) Allen Woody - Bass (Allman Brothers, almost played in mountain reunion tour, Gov't Mule) (died in 2000) Warren Haynes - Guitar (Phil & Friends, Allman Brothers, David Allan Coe, others, Gov't Mule) Playing...

I'm sure this will work as well against piracy as mandatory sentences have helped the drug problem in the US. As if our jails are not overcrowded enough with nonviolent prisoners. Ya I sure Ken Lay will be doing 10+ year for stealing millions, but share a movie or song and your going to federal...