I started back into high end audio about a year ago. Was able to get my system up in running initialy....after hours of breakin the new tubes(300B's) came up in my VAc70/70....Wow....I could sit on my sofa about ten feet a way...played the EMC Trio Medievel folk song CD and the energy engulfed my head....like a rush or ?. To make a long story short I purchased Vac 140's and switched my old NBS master speaker cable to longer Master IV's. To complicate thinks I have upgraded everything else....I do not have that wrap around your head thing anymore....this was a moderate high levels.
I recently tried a different digital cable fron my transport to dac and got a good hint of this sound quality....so I am know using a NBS statement IC from pre to amp.....After all the changes I still think the endorfin like rush was attributed too my old master speaker cables.
Is this quality....Bloom ?? desirable or is it over the top and actually a fault....My brother really liked the sound and now buggs me to find a way to reproduce it again.
Wow I was just looking at your system. I think you need larger speakers in that room to breath out a little bloom.
Just kidding here. I would go with smaller speakers, even a nice monitor speaker. To get that sound staging you like you will need to get them out from the back wall a little and toe them in will you.
"The danger is that once we hear this new level of performance it is mighty tough to return to what our reference had been before."
That is music to a dealers ear.....probably manufactures ears as well. It is really hard to look back. I do think that single ended does have the bloom. In my mind that is an upside to the very simple circuitry as much as to the tubes.
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