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Tubes or chips ?

1  JBJ 22 posts 8.5 months Hi you all. Having recently purchased a complete tube "set up" (=oaties and spaghetti a few years ahead now) I must say this; WAAUUUUUU! I simply can´t beleive what my ears are hearing. How could I not have noticed this !? My "audio-settings" has had a complete 180 degrees OVERHAUL. When a recoding, and cut, is particularely well made, these tubes leave me absolutely dumbfounede and speechless,...."eerh´d"!?......in short. So due to my recent epiforny, I have to toss this question and hopefully get some dialog going. You all; Tubes or chips ? Johnny. (tube-..."eerh´d"!?...). Posted 3 months 2 days ago Quote 2  jared 13 posts 1.1 years Tubes, tubes, and additional tubes. Posted 2 months 29 days ago Quote 3  JBJ 22 posts 8.5 months Jared... Sounds like you`ve had a epiforny too....:) We´re you (like me) foolish enough to dish an entire aspirering record collection and replace the lot with CD`S? Only to find out, some 25 years and a minor fortune later, what kind of mistake THAT was (deniel....) !? Till this day I, honest to god, do not now what planet i was living on..........!? Now i´ve had to spent ANOTHER minor fortune in order to undo and replace (as if the gear itself was´nt expensive enough). -......Come to think of it; talk about surpporting the arts, I´ve purchased some of these albums 3 times now........, they must love me...:D. Anyway thats all in the past, I now have my tubes AND my vinyls and life is wonderfull.... (la-la...:D). How I wish, I could somehow spread the "joyous" sound of tubes....It really is quite a significant difference. The clarity and the effortlessness of the sound can, at times, become absolutely breath-taking. Jeff buckleys "Grace" for instance (even though mine is a re-issue), leaves me speechless, and some of the old classical recordings from the 50´s and 60´s I find to be almost lethal...:). Johnny. Posted 2 months 27 days ago Quote 4  John Bailes 177 posts 1.6 years Educate me guys... I assume that you are speaking of tube amps. If so, please offer a couple of brands, model numbers and where they may be had. Posted 2 months 26 days ago Quote 5  JBJ 22 posts 8.5 months Hi john... Well the reason I did´nt dish up with all the nubers was that, I was trying not to become too tec. I wanted mostly to talk about the acctual sound, the clarity, ease, density etc......texture. If it becomes too tec. it tends to sometime shift focus (or at least I do) and derail from what it is all about, the acctual sound comming out of the speakers. I also have to confess that I´m not half an electroncs-engineer, so when things go tec., i really can`t follow (acctually, I have`nt got a clue about it.....:)). Buuuuutttt since you ask :D:D:D. Here are my babies. They`re not altered, modified, dampend, clamp`d, cook`d or stir-fried in anyway. They`re the purest stuff, straight from the lab just as the lab wanted them to be. It´s a Manley cirkel thing and is as follows: "Jumboshrimp" pre-amp. "Mahi-mahi" monobloks. Croft phono-stage. (I ´m waitng on the new Manley "Chinook" phono-stage to reach overseas/scadinavia end feb.)(can`t wait to get my ears on/in it). Fletcher Audio tabel "Opus 3". Fletcher Audio arm "Comet 2". Grado "reference 1" platinum cart. Creek "Destiny"" CD-player (which went on vaccation last summer....has`nt heard from it since) (R.I.P bassically). And to speak for all of this, a couple of Harbeth SE-7`s (wonderful all-rounders them are). So ther´re you have `em, my babies. To me expensive yes but, the output from this............- best money ever spent. Johnny. Posted 2 months 26 days ago Quote 6  jared 13 posts 1.1 years I have not re re re replaced my music collection. I am one of those younger people you hear so much about these days. Thanks to the mistakes of certain previous generations that shall go unnamed I heard my first vinyl record only a year ago. I remember exactly what song, and album it was. "A great effect" by David Grusin, off the graduate soundtrack. This was on what is now MY 1961 Magnavox Micromatic console. That sax was so rich and thick it sounded like syrup was being pumped out of it's 12' woofers. After a life time of CD's and MP3's I was made an instant believer. The irony of the song title isn't lost on me. It has, after all had a great effect. Posted 2 months 26 days ago Quote 7  JBJ 22 posts 8.5 months Hi John.....(you all). Well i just tried. I think some of these brands/model numbers, when mention´d, automaticly turns into self serv. links = get´s deleted. Post won´t post. (hi there "big brother", how are you this morning ?......:)) Cortius Interuptus.....:D! Another forum another time. Johnny. Posted 2 months 25 days ago Quote 8  John Bailes 177 posts 1.6 years Thanks for tryin' Johnny. I've been out of the electonics game for a while now and was just curious what was what. The ol' budget won't allow for "audiophile" quality but I sometimes strive for "high-end" if you know what I mean. John Posted 2 months 25 days ago Quote 9  zenith2134 2 posts 2.4 years try the Rogue Audio tube equipment it is much cheaper than Manley and is still high quality. Posted 2 months 25 days ago Quote 10  JBJ 22 posts 8.5 months Hi......... Apparently it DID post (at least to some extent...hmm.......I see!....?). Anyway nevermind. Jared your 1961 magnawox micro console is so COOL. How did you get hold at it ? Is it fullyl funktional ? Isnt it funny/wonderfull (...amazing acctually) how the clarity of the tubesound is ever present ? It does`nt really matter what kind of gear or how old it is, if it´s got tubes in it....kliinggg!..... bright as a suuny wintersday. All the gaer that i´ve listen´d to (not that i´ve listen´d to alot, but a few), all had IT. Add a good vinyl and ones instantly hook´d. I´m telling you, my first encounter really was half an epiforny, my jaws just drop´d and i was done for.....:). Johnny. Posted 2 months 24 days ago Quote 11  Ken Dunn 68 posts 1.1 years Quote: Originally Posted By zenith2134: try the Rogue Audio tube equipment it is much cheaper than Manley and is still high quality. You guys must have a lot more free money than I do. I looked up the Rogue stuff and a good amp and pre were around $15,000. Cheap and a $15,000 amp don't belong in the same sentence! Posted 2 months 20 days ago Quote 12  JBJ 22 posts 8.5 months Hi Ken... Well I think that has something to do with, what sound comes out off them. I check´d out the prices on the Rouge stuff too. Here in scandinavia it´s priced more or less the same as Manley and looks like awfull nice stuff too, though I´m not really in to their design (funny this should come from a scandinavian, us being famous/infamous for our cool/slick designs, but too much of that, becomes predictable and uninteresting...........coldhearted and boring actually), I kind of really dig Manleys 1950´s DDR. power plant-look. If placed right, it really looks just like that, a power plant....:). Johnny. Posted 2 months 20 days ago Quote 13  jared 13 posts 1.1 years It's mostly functional, the radio dial doesn't work, and sometimes there is a little static that comes out of the left woofer, but it's drowned out by the music. I got it by knocking $100 off the price of a car I was selling. It is very cool. I love the way it looks, and it and sounds amazing. Posted 2 months 20 days ago Quote 14  JBJ 22 posts 8.5 months Jared.... I think thats pretty amazing. I can´t help but wonder how much of the electronics that we surround us with today, will be around and fully functional in 50 years. Magnavox/wikip. is pretty impressive (moving coil/video console) Are you using it, or are you keeping it as a collectors item (I´ve seen that there´s a group magnavox devotees on yahoo) ? Johnny. Posted 2 months 19 days ago Quote 15  jared 13 posts 1.1 years Thanks :) There won't be a SINGLE I-phone or mp3 player still functioning in 50 years...probably wont be but a hand full in another 10 for that matter. Using the sh*t out of it it. Posted 2 months 11 days ago Quote 16  JBJ 22 posts 8.5 months Hi jared. Glad to hear that you are using it. I too believe that items such as this, should be played on, especially "old timers" that has proven their quality/durability and survival ability. They were made to be played on and not to be gauged at in a museum. They need to live. But I have to ask you about what records you are playing on it. I´m not so sure that modern releases would approve.................:) ? Johnny. Posted 2 months 10 days ago Quote 17  jared 13 posts 1.1 years Could simply not agree with you more jbj. I do sometimes think it's weird playing newer records on it, especially if it's something like 80's hard core punk, sounds great but doesn't quite fit lol. On the other hand letting the stylus drop on my Dave Brubeck records makes me smile a little extra cause I know they belong together. Posted 2 months 6 days ago Quote 18  JBJ 22 posts 8.5 months Jarred..... Have you updated the stylus ? Or are you using the original ? I can easily imagen that Sex Pistols, The damned, Clash etc. would create some kind of (hmm?.....!) "disharmony" played on a magnawox.....!.....but then again..:) Punk isn´t dead, it just smells that way....:D Johnny. Posted 2 months 2 days ago Quote 19  jared 13 posts 1.1 years Had to replace the head unit, or what ever it's called so I could affix a new type of stylus. Black flag. 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