Hello,
I am a newbie to the world of Hi-Fi but would like to learn more. Can anybody give me suggestions on where to look for more information? Specifically, I would like to gain just some general knowledge on the differences between amps/pre-amps/tube vs. solid state, and how to select them (I know it's partially about taste). I am interested in upgrading my receiver for my turntable which is a Rega P3-- right now it's just running off of a cheap Yamaha receiver I picked up for a couple hundred bucks back in 04.

Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

I have a technical question more so than a "how it sounds" question regarding tube preamps....Some preamps on the market process the signal with tubes and SS components while other preamps are touted as being all tube. My question is this; if I want to experience the "tube" sound would I be missing something if I purchased a hybrid unit vs all tube unit because from a technical point of view the ss components in a hybrid unit just can't typically replicate exactly what a tube does so if I trully want to know tubes I have to listen to an all tube unit.

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Greetings.
A recent convert to this weird and wonderful world of high end audio, I'm looking to make the plunge into assembling my first system. As I'm inexperienced in this vast hobby I have a few questions and queries I'd greatly appreciate being answered.
This is a fairly long post as I'm also sharing some of my own initial ideas, just to warm the faint of heart, although I'd really be indebted if you could bare with me and offered advice.

Hola,

I can vividly recall the V-15 VMR when it was still available...sold at a discount. I think I got mine for 120 bucks.

Now, like Jim Croce in October, 1973, it can't get enough positive regard.

Perplexing.

I guess absence really does make the ear grow fonder.

Great detail, very a-Shure-d sound, but lacking in air. Forward imaging.

Almost digital.

Tonight is a shoot out with the new CD player with Neil Young's "Live at Massey Hall." We'll see if it can compete with modern CD playback.

Stalking Katie Holmes.

See him, there, lurking?

I just picked this up - I had never heard it before - and WOW! Great sound and impressive performance. Also, the Speakers Corner reissue has some QUIET vinyl - some of the lowest surface noise I have ever heard on my setup (to be honest, I didn't know my setup could be so quiet).

Of course, people here are way bigger classical junkies than I, so you've all probably heard this before. If you haven't though, it is truly impressive.

That's all.