@dekay , I remember you mentioning that back when I was inquiring about 5AR4s. I am hoping that I am not as hard on rectifier tubes as you are on glasses.
How long does it take a decent quality speaker to "wear out"?
After all, they do have moving parts and capacitors. . . .
(I suppose that "decent quality" s a relative term. FTR, I am running a pair of the older B&W 805s, and for all I know, they may not actually meet the criteria of "decent quality.")
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. . . @erik_squires , if I remember correctly, B&W claims that the midrange drivers are made of Kevlar & the tweeter of titanium. |
I used to run those speakers hard and loud. Quite often at ear bleed. There were times that I was surprised that they did not explode even though they never clipped. We are both older and I may be somewhat wiser and they are in a small listening room, so by my standards, they live a pretty soft life now. They were never exposed to much sunlight at all, and now they live in the dark. No sunlight. |
@ghdprentice , as a matter of fact, my speakers are the older 805 Matrixes. I think I've owned them about 25 years. (I did have to redo the cone suspension on my M&K sub twice in those 30 years.) |
@dekay , thanks for asking. Well, I went on a used 5AR4 buying binge of sorts --a UK Amperex, a Holland Amperex, and a Hitachi/(Matsushita?); and I have a Gold Lion I bought prior to that and the original Sovtec, so if nothing else, (given my age) I hopefully have a life time supply. But of the three used tubes I bought I have only got around to running the UK Amperex, and I am liking the way everything is sounding for me right now. But the thing is, I had the Gold Lion in before I put the UK Amperex in, and I thought it sound good with that and I never felt any sense of sonic revelation when I swapped it out. And the same applies to the Sovtec that I swapped out. I hate to say it, but maybe I don't have the ears for this. |