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    Abbas phono

    Thank you. I will borrow the Mono in the next few weeks and find what works.
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    Abbas phono

    To step up, or not to step up, this is the question: I heard a friend's Miyajima Zero Mono cartridge in his system yesterday and was quite amazed by the fabulous sound. I need to hear it in my system, yet potentially it offers still greater scale, impact and richness than my Decca cartridges...
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    Best Sounding FM Tuner?

    as you might imagine, there are numerous programmes to enjoy on R3 (and Radio France Musique (!)) . check out Saturday schedule "inside music", where young music makers take the chair for 2 hours and present what is special to them and why ? Plus live concerts at 1pm weekdays, Proms, and all...
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    Best Sounding FM Tuner?

    yes, me too...... this country does like to muddle through, sometimes it works out, and well, ...
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    Best Sounding FM Tuner?

    The UK Government's hard working public service mandarins assert (web search -"fm switch off UK" ) "Other recommendations include that there should be no mandated switch-off of analogue radio until at least 2030 - meaning that FM radio broadcasts can continue for at least another decade so the...
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    Best Sounding FM Tuner?

    Late to this thread, live broadcast music via BBC Radio 3 is a great pleasure, and if one lived in Dover, England, you'd enjoy Radio France Musique also, (even better programming), and when in France, of course, too. The sound quality is special ---nearly as good as LP Playback with Abbas valve...
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    Ordering a Bokrand Tonearm

    Whilst I wait for construction of a tonearm, --I understood the implications of Alfred's solo working when I ordered -- he made me a wonderful sounding SME type extender with solid silver conductors for use with Decca heads. Music is full of life with this on the end of an unserviced FR24 MKII...
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    Abbas phono

    I reminded myself today that Abbas' phono stage is notably responsive to different power cord (PC) and plug termination designs. I have one of Abbas' PC's and this is a beautiful sounding cable that complements his design. A couple of years ago I started using "Acoustic Revive C8800" PCOCCA...
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    Abbas phono

    I don't know, it is quite rigid board-like material curving round, the outer black face of which feels like fabric
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    Abbas dac 2.1 se

    +1 on Abbas' SPDIF cable; which seems part of the wonderful capability of DAC 2.4SE+, fed from both CD transport and a MUTEC alternative (at half the cost) "Gustard U18". Serious headphone listeners claim this betters MUTEC, which I have heard in my system but returned. U18 is simpler to...
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    Abbas phono

    I don't see interior photographs of Abbas' RIAA so here are a handful of mine, delivered summer 2021. With Abbas' recommended valves --Mullard Blackburn mesh long plate EF86's, EL84's and both EZ80 / 81, music off LP's sounds magical - one hears everything in the space of the recording. I took...
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    Abbas dac 2.1 se

    @Yorkshireman I too would have ordered the larger 3.2 DAC cited above but for reasons of space chose the shoe box size. I can confirm the power regulation of the 2.4SE+ includes larger glass as pictured in the attached images (taken the day I received from Kyiv --the lady at the post office...
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    Abbas dac 2.1 se

    The model hierarchy is helpfully outlined in the following note. I can attest to the smaller shoebox size 2.4SE+ sounding special. Ordered in solidarity seven days after the war started and landed last May in London. I was astonished at how powerful, dynamic, airy and simply musical is the DAC...
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    Abbas dac 2.1 se

    Thank you for confirming. The Abbas replaced a ten year favourite phono stage inbuilt to my Croft preamplifier. That machine sounded very nice with large 6336B rectifier valve, off board dual mono p/s and vintage long plate Mullard ECC83s. The Abbas is more involving. There is an Abbas RIAA...
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    Abbas dac 2.1 se

    The 2.4 SE and perhaps, still more, the 3 series, will bring the most affecting music to one's home, short of a live concert. @jespera "I also really enjoy my abbas phonostage. It was its big bottles that convinced me......" I would like to order another RIAA stage from Abbas with a GD...
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    Abbas dac 2.1 se

    Chiming in here with very positive report of DAC 2.4SE with GD transformer, ordered in solidarity the first week of the war. I am a vinyl and FM radio head. Being very highly satisfied with Abbas' RIAA stage, ordered a year earlier, I ordered the 2.4SE hoping I'd get good sound from Radio France...
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    STACKED PAIRS OF ESL-57's WITH SUPERTWEETERS - ANYONE STILL HEARS THESE SPEAKERS?

    Hello, I have one of Glenn's preamps and I looked for your recommended "Mullard 8133" but could find no reference. Would you kindly confirm this IS a Mullard number and perhaps send a link to a source ? Many thanks. On the ESL57 front, I recently took delivery of rebuilt panels and...

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