doukhobar
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Thanks all! Thanks Zach!
I've actually been meaning to contact Zach directly about a discussion regarding his woods. I am torn between cherry and blackwood. There is also a beautiful Zebrawood available now on sale. I've read pretty much all the reviews available, and realize they are more similar than different. Hopefully I will get a chance to listen to an Omni at Urban Hifi in Maryland in the near future.
I listen to about 50% classical off NPR from my Sansui TU-666 tuner. I next most listen to my tube DAC playing 50's-60's jazz like Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Ellington, Modern Jazz Quartet, Stan Getz and newer international jazz artists like Avishai Cohen on trumpet (not the bassist of same name). I am a former professional trumpet player so am pretty tuned towards jazz.
I also enjoy listening to some heavier alternative rock/metal and EDM about 20% of the time when the wife and kids are asleep. Bands like Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, DJ Tiesto, etc. so pretty diverse spectrum.
Any suggestions of one wood over the other Zach? Happy to take this discussion offline.
I also have a large collection of tubes for the Taboo, both rectifiers and signal tubes. This can be an expensive hobby, tube collecting! So I need to factor this into my decision for a wood.
Right now I am more consistently using a Brimar 5R4GY which is great with classical and jazz choice as it has a bit more body and midrange warmth. However with electronica and rock it can be too syrupy. I don't usually bother swapping the rectifier when I feel like changing genres late at night, but that would be ideal. I have quite a large genre of 5Y3 type tubes, including mesh plate from Neotron (France), several Bendix 6106 (5Y3 equivalent), many older U50 tubes (5Y3 equivalent) from likes of Marconi and Mullard. Also at my disposal are a Brimar 5U4G, Cossor 53KU and metal Phillips 5AR4, which I have yet to try any of these. My friend in Holland has two Phillips metal bases he wants to sell me for 150 euros each in NOS condition.
So I can obviously do alot of tuning. Have not even gotten into the E88CC collection on hand yet. I obviously care alot about being able to listen to what my tubes have to offer, and not get overwhelmed by bass, for example. Thoughts?
I've actually been meaning to contact Zach directly about a discussion regarding his woods. I am torn between cherry and blackwood. There is also a beautiful Zebrawood available now on sale. I've read pretty much all the reviews available, and realize they are more similar than different. Hopefully I will get a chance to listen to an Omni at Urban Hifi in Maryland in the near future.
I listen to about 50% classical off NPR from my Sansui TU-666 tuner. I next most listen to my tube DAC playing 50's-60's jazz like Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Ellington, Modern Jazz Quartet, Stan Getz and newer international jazz artists like Avishai Cohen on trumpet (not the bassist of same name). I am a former professional trumpet player so am pretty tuned towards jazz.
I also enjoy listening to some heavier alternative rock/metal and EDM about 20% of the time when the wife and kids are asleep. Bands like Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, DJ Tiesto, etc. so pretty diverse spectrum.
Any suggestions of one wood over the other Zach? Happy to take this discussion offline.
I also have a large collection of tubes for the Taboo, both rectifiers and signal tubes. This can be an expensive hobby, tube collecting! So I need to factor this into my decision for a wood.
Right now I am more consistently using a Brimar 5R4GY which is great with classical and jazz choice as it has a bit more body and midrange warmth. However with electronica and rock it can be too syrupy. I don't usually bother swapping the rectifier when I feel like changing genres late at night, but that would be ideal. I have quite a large genre of 5Y3 type tubes, including mesh plate from Neotron (France), several Bendix 6106 (5Y3 equivalent), many older U50 tubes (5Y3 equivalent) from likes of Marconi and Mullard. Also at my disposal are a Brimar 5U4G, Cossor 53KU and metal Phillips 5AR4, which I have yet to try any of these. My friend in Holland has two Phillips metal bases he wants to sell me for 150 euros each in NOS condition.
So I can obviously do alot of tuning. Have not even gotten into the E88CC collection on hand yet. I obviously care alot about being able to listen to what my tubes have to offer, and not get overwhelmed by bass, for example. Thoughts?