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I can only be enthousiastic and positive about this! Good for them!

Several American and European music production companies bring these vinyl collector boxes on the market, mostly subscription based. You find them in all genres, from jazz to classical music. Production value is premium (180grams, original artwork and pictures, extended booklet etc.), and so is the price: mostly starting at $300 or higher. Add postage and import duties... Example: https://www.newvelle-records.com/pages/audio The link above points to one that caught my attention because they give a lot of details about the technical aspects of recording the music (no AD/DA conversion was done). Another special one is the recording of Simon Rattle's Beethoven nine symphonies with a one-point-microphone set-up: https://www.berliner-philharmoniker-recordings.com/rattle-beethoven-symphonies.html Curious about your opinion...

Yes!!! Not very informative, I know, but at least you know I exist and the forums is working.

I really do. I had to wait 13 seconds for this post.

Now I know how you guys accumulate this high amount of posts.

I'm here to be educated... And I 've learned quote a lot here Already! Verstuurd vanaf mijn 5047U met Tapatalk

I must confess I know more about beer - I live in Belgium, so what would you expect - than I know about tube amps.... Seriously: I'm so jealous of people who have the skills and knowledge to build their own amp. I'm technically challenged... So it is wise and safer not to touch the innards and high voltages of an amp. Verstuurd vanaf mijn 5047U met Tapatalk

Anything commercial is a 'ripp off' in that frame of thought... Even your soda or beer... Because the conceiver / manufacturer/designer/transporter wants to make a little profit in order to feed his family and to pay his employees. I bet your DIY amp sounds amazing (in your room), but is below par as for design and looks. ;.)

It is actually APPJ and it is a class A power amp. Verstuurd vanaf mijn 5047U met Tapatalk

https://kenrockwell.com/audio/tubedepot/tubecube-7.htmIt is No 'hybrid'. Does that exclude class D? They Come with handpicked matching tubes. It sounds really Nice and powerfil too. Good spatial sepatation. Verstuurd vanaf mijn 5047U met Tapatalk

Well, I've Read klipsch owners stating the Same about their speakers depending on room size, furniture and Wall material. I think the ravens are accurately described. As for power too, the ravens seem underpowered compared to the heresy's. But they are equally efficiënt. Also, our Hs are made of mdf with veneer. Perhaps the Ravens are made of genuine wood? As for the looks, appreciation is very subjectieve. It seems they to me they were inspired by the Heresy's. That is a compliment! As I'm typing this I'm listening Neil Young's This note's for You album on vinyl. My humble PR160M speakers are amazing. I drive them with a little amp that was delivered today: the TubeCube 7. Call me crazy. I live in Europe so I paid 63 dollars for postage and 100 dollars import taxes. I know tubedepot has them made in China But I wanted to make sure I Got the 'orinal'. Some of You are probably laughing in their fist now. But I don't care. I paid for It with my own money. The TubeCube is only 3.5 Watt. And It is much better than my Denon amp. Verstuurd vanaf mijn 5047U met Tapatalk

Come on, guys. This is an American made product... I also checked the website of Fern & Roby, the designers behind this amp. You'll gonna love this, they also design speakers. Their Ravens are actually similar to the Heresy in design. The quadrupled the price, of course... https://www.fernandroby.com/products/details/the-ravens

Here is one: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/microzotl-3-by-linear-tube-audio-true-high-end-audio.895908/

http://www10.big.or.jp/~dh/ Sakuma-san passed away on 14th December 2018. He was in the hospital in poor physical condition. He was 76 years old.

Thank you so much! The internet - and aspecially you - is amazing.

A couple of months ago, on one of the Klipsch forums, someone posted a youtube video. I didn't bookmark this, so now I can't find it again. Perhaps someone can help me. This is in the youtube video: It was a Japansese tv report about an old valve amp master. You see him is his café/pub, and he is playing music from a turntable. The room is full of equipment, he barely is able to move about because of that. He's playing 1950s/60s jazz standards for visitors in the pub. The turntable is behind the counder, against the wall, so he's turned with his back to his visitors. I'm not sure, but he may have played a Barbara Lea song. I believe there was a short introduction by japanese newsreaders, but I'm not sure about that anymore... If anyone knows this video, I'd be very pleased if you pointed me to it.

The Klipsch crowd loves things big, large and powerful. Or is this an unjust generalisation? Anyhow, some Klispch speakers are really 'efficient' and don't need a lot of watts to generate a lot of decibels. So here is a little amp I came across that really beats them all in power-reversed: the The MicroZOTL MZ3 is a one-watt Speaker amp. The product page: https://www.lineartubeaudio.com/products/microzotl-mz3 Review: https://theaudiobeatnik.com/reviewing-the-microzotl-mz3-integrated-amp-from-linear-tube-audio/ At $3,700 this must be the most expensive watt on the planet. However, it has amazing specs, and I'm really curious about your opinion on this...

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Thought so...

I would buy the rp160m because the rp600m look slightly different. Verstuurd vanaf mijn 5047U met Tapatalk

As a non-tech person, I'd really appreciate it if someone could explain this in 'lain terms': "In classic linear amplifiers at high frequencies the interelectrodes spurious capacitances act as bandwith reduction elements.In linear amplifiers tubes with spurious capacitances of the order of few tens pF are only suitable for audio circuits, as they can not be used in radio frequency applications.Driving the same audio tubes in switching mode with positive grid, the effect of these capacitances is only in the reduction of the maximum slope speed at the edges of the switching signals.Audio application specific triodes (with relative high spurious capacitances) can provide edges within the tens nanoseconds range, allowing the bridges to operate at several hundreds KHz switching frequency.These results can be achiede if the triodes are connected by the means of matched impedance transmission lines, whose control the signal edge distorsions avoiding the effect of signal reflections along the line.The lines have also to be lenght matched in order to provide the same propagation delay for each signal edge coming from the grid drivers to the triodes or from the triodes to the load output." Source: http://www.studio-rts-ing-rampin.it/ampdiva/ampdivapdfdepot/ampdivawhitepaper1en.pdf

Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries Can't make up my mind which video I find the most fascinating. Oktober 1997, shortly before his death, surreal. Or this one, 1986.

@artto Well, as I thought, you are in a whole different league than I am. I'm just into the vinyl because of nostalgia and the tactile aspect of it, I guess. I do have some experience with recording video - I make videos once in a while for non-profit organizations, and as I got better at it, the filming and editing became routine, while the audio has always been a struggle. And I'm not talking about recording music now, but about straightforward interviews. If something can go wrong, it will go wrong (inexplicable cracks, wind in microphone, distracting noises by hand holding the microphone...). I can imagine that recording music is exponentially more difficult - if you want to do it right, that is. I want to add two more things. One, that little Zoom H1 microphone I use, for its price - under $100, is simply amazing. It gives impressive stereo separation. And this is just their entry level model. Second, I have carefully read your criticism towards vinyl and your arguments do make sense. But they are perhaps contradictory to the opinion of vinyl proponents the likes of Michael Fremer, at http://www.analogplanet.com Here, Fremer writes about Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memory' album. It is relevant to what you wrote/asked, because of this: " Everything was laid down to both analog tape and to digital, with the final choices made based upon which sounded better to all concerned, including mastering engineer Bob Ludwig." Read more at https://www.analogplanet.com/content/daft-punks-random-access-memories-retro-disco-ear-candy#EGQSFAX9DiKIHf5B.99 In the final paragraph, he writes 30,000 copies of this album were sold, which is way less than the 1,000,000 studios would press in the past, as you suggest. If this number is a big success, then the obvious conclusion is that new vinyl will be pretty good quality, as no more than (about) 30,000 were pressed...

... And sometimes, the sound quality is secondary to the event, to being there. My wife's musical ensemble had the honour to play at the Last Post in legendary Ypres (Flanders), commemorating World War One. It was an equal honour to me to record the event...