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I actually have a ST-70 tube amp on JBL 590's. 35 watts of pure bliss that can shake the walls.
I wanted a tube amp, a MacIntosh. My dad was an electrical engineer and he made a lot of his own stuff, pretty nice stuff. I'd get my ass BEAT for just touching it. He could copy or make or engineer better from scratch, and did; a true virtuoso with electronics.
All I have now are a pair of Bose 901's and the largest Miller Kriesel subwoofer ever made... This one doesn't just shake walls, it knocks shit down! Highs aren't so great but it's mostly used for organ music and for me it does pretty good. A Harmon Kardon solid state amp took over for the Luxman when it went down.
All I have now are a pair of Bose 901's and the largest Miller Kriesel subwoofer ever made... This one doesn't just shake walls, it knocks shit down! Highs aren't so great but it's mostly used for organ music and for me it does pretty good. A Harmon Kardon solid state amp took over for the Luxman when it went down.
Well, what would you run through those fuckers?
I see your bullshit, and raise you some kaboom:
I dig the drums, guitar, classical bass, and the vocals. I think the the piano and violin would have been pretty badass in that track.
I don't think your offering tops any of mine
I mean, the Emancipator track is pretty sweet from a modern jazzy bullshit perspective.
The Van Cliburn track set a precedent in world history.
The Russian track.... motherfuckers killed communists to that tune. If y'all don't know who Mikhail Gordeevich Drozdovsky is, then you're missing out on some extremely relevant history.
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I run my music off my pc and use schitt also.
There is nothing better than a tube. I built my st70 as a kit. Wish I would have built the 120 now tho...more power never hurts.
Best thing is that its economical.
http://www.tubes4hifi.com/bob.htm
There is nothing better than a tube. I built my st70 as a kit. Wish I would have built the 120 now tho...more power never hurts.
Best thing is that its economical.
http://www.tubes4hifi.com/bob.htm
Hah, Lindsey Stirling always reminded me of this girl I went to school with.
Chick is fuckin' phenomenal with a Cello, and I could definitely see her doing a similar thing as Lindsey.
I lost first chair to her =/
Chick is fuckin' phenomenal with a Cello, and I could definitely see her doing a similar thing as Lindsey.
I lost first chair to her =/
I have most of nox arcana's stuff. Its my reloading music. Dead men tell no tales is my fav.
I have 65k songs on my pc.
I have 65k songs on my pc.
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What is your favorite reference track? I use Hotel California. The ending bass drift should show the individual note. Anything Linda Ronstadt from her Asylum days. Fleetwood Mac Rumors. And Steely Dan. There are other hand picked favorites of course. Every audiophile has them off the top of their heads. I'm a little old school.
Grateful Dead 'Live Dead' or Jefferson Airplane 'Bless its Pointed Little Head'. Any of the live recordings at Marty Balin's Matrix club. Melody Gardot 'Live in Europe'. My system, apologies for the lousy photo.
I like Allan Parsons to Meshuggah. Anything but Country. Well modern country. I love southern boogie.
How about the Outlaws? I’ll pick that for my favorite reference song.
Or Coheed and Cambria.
How about the Outlaws? I’ll pick that for my favorite reference song.
Or Coheed and Cambria.
Or pucifer for the modern singer/songwriter sound.
Or LORN to show off your subwoofer abilities.
LORN explores dark music without being gloomy. I love to drive to this.
Or LORN to show off your subwoofer abilities.
LORN explores dark music without being gloomy. I love to drive to this.
Sweet setup! I use Live Dead also as well as Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellingtons joint recording (released under various names and albums over the years) and then Morphine's Top Floor Bottom Buzzer to test everything down around 20 htz.
I used to believe that, but then I listened to more modern solid state electronics. These days, I the best plan is to have excellent tube gear and solid state gear, then alternate from time to time. Everything is a filter of some sort.
But actually, there's nothing better than the Absolute Sound.
A few years ago, I sold most of the stuff that would be considered audiophile and most of my recording studio gear. I now have a fairly compact portable studio centered on a Universal Audio Apollo. I've gotten out of recording bands and live gigs, so mostly I use it to make digital copies of vinyl and to remaster recordings where the engineers had their heads up their asses.
Not an audiophile contender but will get your gut a-jumpin':
I miss this guy, the Guitarist From Another Planet. My photos of him are still on the wall at Naked Ear. He asked me to name the genre of his music and I told him Heavy Mental. It stuck.
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Interesting imaging/dimensionality:
In an excellent control room, those two are so 3-D, it's mind blowing.
I grew up on Fresh Aire I-IIV
"FreeBird!!!!!"
Mid-80's Metallica
Pink Floyd
Led Zep
The Who
The Guess Who
Fleetwood Mac
and, for some eclectivity:
The Gregorian Monks
Mid-80's Van Halen
1812 Overture
Buddy Wasisname an' the Other Fellers
Mid-80's Metallica
Pink Floyd
Led Zep
The Who
The Guess Who
Fleetwood Mac
and, for some eclectivity:
The Gregorian Monks
Mid-80's Van Halen
1812 Overture
Buddy Wasisname an' the Other Fellers
OK, I will say that turning your music to hifi by converting tracks SS can sound very good also.
Damn right! I got to see them live and it was a blast. Running and jumping onto kick drum pedals is doing it right.
Might as well download their discography, all their albums are good, drink the sea is my favorite though
Try this out. Very technical and amazing vocals...
I only use that on Friday nights...LOL,... thats a piece of foam like you insulate water pipes with. I wrap it around power wires and speaker cables to keep out ground loop interference.
TOOL is Apex for mindbending
For people wanting to download entire things off of youtube, there's a nice script that allows you to grab a single track or an entire channel.
https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
Currently my solid state system is down, gotta rebuild an amp.
My tube rig consists of mostly is one of these https://www.bobcarvercorp.com/copy-of-crimson-raven soon to be two.
I've got a pair of them. Bob was nice enough to allow attendees of Carver Fest to purchase pre-release units of them in kit form at the gathering. I've got 1 working right now and am chasing a bug in the second. I'm not an electronic tech so it's taking a while. They sound great and when run in monobloc configuration put out ~125 watts.
Preamp is a limited edition designed by one of the Carver Fest attendees and built during one of the gatherings.
Speakers are another Fest project based on Bob's Amazing Line Source speaker. It's about 1/8th the size of the ALS.
Schiit Modi dac, Schiit Mani phono pre, Thorens TD-145 turntable, asstd Cd players.
My tube rig consists of mostly is one of these https://www.bobcarvercorp.com/copy-of-crimson-raven soon to be two.
I've got a pair of them. Bob was nice enough to allow attendees of Carver Fest to purchase pre-release units of them in kit form at the gathering. I've got 1 working right now and am chasing a bug in the second. I'm not an electronic tech so it's taking a while. They sound great and when run in monobloc configuration put out ~125 watts.
Preamp is a limited edition designed by one of the Carver Fest attendees and built during one of the gatherings.
Speakers are another Fest project based on Bob's Amazing Line Source speaker. It's about 1/8th the size of the ALS.
Schiit Modi dac, Schiit Mani phono pre, Thorens TD-145 turntable, asstd Cd players.
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Triplebull what is the setup you are using to go from vinyl to PC.?
I'd like to simplify the process. Currently I go from turntable through preamp to standalone cd burner. Then rip the cd and clean up and save to PC.
I'd like to simplify the process. Currently I go from turntable through preamp to standalone cd burner. Then rip the cd and clean up and save to PC.
Sweet. Written in C++ with source available. Gotta look through that one of these days.
https://github.com/willcast/4kdownload
That burning process sounds inefficient as hell.
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Judith - Perfect Circle
46 and 2 - Tool
Played through an
Audio research SP11 tube transistor hybrid preamp
Krell KMA-160 monoblocks or my Audio Research D250 tube amp (250W/channel - 16 x 6550 tubes)
Snell Type A speakers
Old equipment but it will rattle the walls and hang with anything new.
46 and 2 - Tool
Played through an
Audio research SP11 tube transistor hybrid preamp
Krell KMA-160 monoblocks or my Audio Research D250 tube amp (250W/channel - 16 x 6550 tubes)
Snell Type A speakers
Old equipment but it will rattle the walls and hang with anything new.
You ain't lyin. That's one of the reasons there are still 700+ waiting to be converted.
If you post some info about your setup I can maybe find a cheap and easy solution. Pics might help, too.
What's the connection to the standalone burner? (e.g., USB, RCA, etc?)
Burner is a Pioneer PDR-609 It connects to the preamp in the tape loop.
Laptop Inspiron 17R
Turntable Thorens 145
Preamp tube with Schitt Mani phonostage or Carver CT-17 can also pull a Sunfire Theater Grand out of storage. None of which have digital outputs.
Actually I think I just found a solution. Another piece of Schiit. I can go turntable to Schiit Mani phonostage to Schiit Jill to PC. Currently I'm running Audacity for the editing. I'm open to suggestions for the recording software.
That's some good schiit. I use Audacity, too. I don't think there's a better option for a lower price.
You mean the Schiit schiit or the other schiit.
If it hadn't been for this thread I probably wouldn't have looked to see if any of their pres had a USB out.
Watch their current deals page, sometimes you can pick up one heck of a deal on last years model or B-stock items.
If it hadn't been for this thread I probably wouldn't have looked to see if any of their pres had a USB out.
Watch their current deals page, sometimes you can pick up one heck of a deal on last years model or B-stock items.
The ADC =) The other shit is good shit, too, even the Schiit shit. That burner is crazy, lol. Analog to optical. I love technology.
The burner dates to about 2000 when people were still using and burning cds. I got it around 2005 because I couldn't find a good way to get from vinyl to computer or cd. I never could get a straight answer on the forums I was on as to what I needed to get from turntable to sound card. It makes a good disc
Searching around I came across this thread..nice to see others that shoot also enjoy music and high end audio...
I only have a ST-70 tube amp that I built a couple of years ago with JBL 590 speakers. Tubes sound even magical with NOS.
Congrats on your setup. How often do you get to turn it on ?
Congrats on your setup. How often do you get to turn it on ?
