$120 battery powered tube amplifier kit
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Robert Baird - read your good review, thanks. I like Neil's country/folk side and his guitar freakout side both (yeah, I do like the rock even better), so the dichotomy you mention is not so absolute - at least for me, and probably for some others too.
My copy of this CD also contains a DVD, which is recorded at 24/96. The video display is just a changing series of still shots - so once you get it running, can turn off the TV and listen to hi-rez audio. Nice! I'm playin the hi-rez at home and keeping the CD in my car.
so i bought my first real nice stereo this year as a result of some great advice i got in this forum...cambridge 540p amp w/matching phono pre-amp...epos ELS 3 mini-monitors...Rega p1 turntable...used NAD CD player..got speaker stands and positioned them correctly in my study/record room.
So...basically...sounds great. So much better than what I was used to, listening to CDs through my surround sound DVD player in the living room or an old technics receiver/jbl speakers/technics turntable setup or iPod.
MP3's originated as a way to transmit and store compressed files when transmission bandwidth and storage were both expensive. The compromise in sound was well known, but was determined by many to be a reasonable tradeoff.
Now that bandwidth and storage are no longer an issue, will uncompressed sound files make a resurgence? Everyone for whom I have demonstrated the difference can readily hear the better sound and prefers it. The only objection to listening to full resolution files is that they have already ripped and tagged their music and don't want to do it again.
John Atkinson and Micheal Fremer were among listeners that sucessfully identified expensive speaker wire in a blind comparison at the just concluded T.H.E. show.
Good job!
I'm looking to buy my first turntable and am wondering what anyone thinks of the eBay options below. I'm certainly open to other suggestions. I have a Onkyo receiver with a phono input and mordaunt short avant loudspeakers. Bottom line, I'm on a tight budget (<$200)...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...cTODAY.m238.lVI
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How things can change whenever you expand your budget & audition really good stuff. Revising my earlier post, here is what I am currently looking at:
Paradigm Signature S8 speakers
Audio Research SP16L preamp
Bryston 3B SST power amp
Cambridge Audio 840c CDP.
Your thoughts? (Other than I might be eating Top Ramen for the next decade).
Hello, I would like to enrich my home audio experience.
Currently I am running:
Harmon Kardon AVR 130 receiver,
Harmon Kardon DVD 22 dvd (cd player) for analog signal,
Xbox 360 for digital signal,
Polk Audio R30's for left and right fronts,
Bose Accoustimas II for center, rr, rl, and passive sub,
Monster Cable connecting everything except the XBox 360.
When listening to cd's I switch the reciever to stereo mode, and this is where I crave more. I am wanting a better music experience as opposed to home theater.
My living room measures:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310014259042
http://www.jarl.or.jp/Japanese/2_Joho/gakken-tube-amp/making-tube-amp.htm
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Charles.