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Art & Sound sounds about right. They had a nice review of the XA25 on YouTube.
I don't have multiples of any gear. If one is better, then the other one goes. I think I have one exception with phono...

Re amp choice, had not seen/heard of Radford. Me being in California is a factor, and Pass is in CA as well. I was considering a PrimaLuna pre-power combo, but the output impedence/damping factor of...

I think there is a Sibelius "ambassador" in London, so within reasonable travel distance from the midlands. Not sure how auditioning would work, particularly in covid times, but if you are...

Hi Phil,

I got the PrimaLuna EVO 300 Pre in, waiting for the Pass labs XA25 to be built. Maybe another month or so. I selected the 300 over the 400 as the internal design is not fully balanced. I...

I've been thinking about that as well. I hardly ever listen at loud levels, so I think effects are at best minimal. Putting the TT elsewhere is a bit of a problem because the TT is pretty deep. That...

I also recently made some sound absorption panels. Frame from up-cycled shipping palette wood, 2" Roxul 80 as filler for the regular absorbers, 4" for the corner bass trap, my photos printed on...

Thanks Alan! I thought about wood clothing as well and dutch clogs came to mind. Wood pants would be a bit of an issue, Lederhosen are already a tricky business ;-) Y-splitters are also called "cable...

I am looking into breaking up my integrated amp into all separates. So far, the Pass Labs XA25 and XA30.8 are the top contenders. I will be driving PearlAcoustics Sibelius SG 8 Ohm speakers in a...

I bought new speakers (PearlAcoustics Sibelius SG) and with it also some beefier raw cables (AWG ~5-6) that I made into speaker cords. Two cables go into one 1/2” cable SOCK, which is a PITA to feed...

If you look at the pictures, there is some chewing-gum-like material between the heat sink and the tube. That peach colored thing is certainly not a teflon strip. Still no word from EAT ...

Thanks for the link. No mention of glue in that document. Looks a bit on the snakier side of accessories. Still wonder what the stock tubes are, and I a bit worried of breaking the tube while trying...

Thanks for the quick replies. First image is the opened chassis, one tube in place, the other removed.

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These two pictures show the top and side view of the 12AX7 tube with the metal...

Just got an EAT E-glo petite phono stage, an upgrade from a Vincent PHO701 with upgraded Telefunken ribbed plate 12AU7. The new one has a couple of 12AX7 tubes, and I was looking forward to...

Greetings,

I am setting up a new (first) listening room. I've got the basic install done (see picture below), and now wonder about room treatment. With 20/20 hindsight, TT in corner was possibly...

My digital library is mainly in FLAC format (a few MP3s). I play them both on a Mac computer running OS 10.15/Catalina and on Iphone (with Dragonfly cobalt as DAC). I try to find something where I...

Thanks everybody. The Vincent is set to MC and the Vincent impedance is set to 1000 Ohm, minimum suggested for the Soundsmith is 500, but I like the sound at 1k Ohm a tad better. There is no volume...

I recently upgraded from a MM TT set-up (Ortofon 2M blue on POS TT) to built-in phono stage of a Rotel RA 1572 integrated amp, to a VPI SuperPrimeScout with Soundsmith Zephyr MIMC* cartridge (0.4 mV)...

Re vinyl dust, I can highly recommend a wet record cleaner. That is really critical for listening to vinyl. I got the Project model. The first copy I got had really bad motor/gear noise, which seems...

Glad to hear you enjoy your new vinyl set-up. I grew up with vinyl before there were CDs, but in the last couple of years have gotten back into it and have bought again maybe 50 older releases as...

I have a stack of old tapes that I could erase and tape over. Mainly CO2, metal was too esoteric and expensive back in the 80s-90s, when I grew up. The TEAC 7000 has both auto bias calibration, as...

Hi Saijd,

sounds fine to me, but two caveats: for one, I don't have any other tape decks to compare it to, and second, I am not sure how good the source material I have is, pretty old cassettes I...

Martin: Thanks for the confirmation!

I just bought a TEAC V700 tape deck. It has on the side some plastic grille. Does it serve any function, or is it purely decorative? It is protruding quite a bit from my stack, so would not mind...

Alan: Good eye! I used a Canon 17 mm TSE lens on a Canon 5DsR with pretty significant shift. I wanted to keep the wall verticals straight, and the headphones against white background with more of a...

Here are some pictures of my new VPI Super Prime Scout set-up. Thanks to many here for providing some info, advice, and feedback.

Gear is as follows: center stage, VPI Super Prime Scout with a...