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| The under 10K speaker You are hard-pressed to do better than Zu Definitions in your price preference. $9,000/pr in basic satin finish and a little over $10,000/pr in high-gloss automotive finish. They will give you both high power handling and very high efficiency for ... | |
| Consonance Cyber 800/845 Valve amps; how good? Interesting to see comments on 845 v. KT88/90. They really are two very different experiences, though each can be used in circuits designed around them to deliver good results to the same sonic objective. In both cases, of course, amp-to-amp varia... | |
| Tubes and Rock and Roll, Can they go together? The Cremona, despite its 90db/w/m efficiency rating, really doesn't perform to its potential on the output of the Mac 2102. You should have heard it with the MC402 -- the least McIntosh amp that expresses the synergy between the speaker and Mac ge... | |
| Integrated amp for my Sonus Faber Guarneri McIntosh MA6900 or the NAD Master Series M3. The Sonus Fabers really need considerably more power than their efficiency suggests. The Mac MA2275 is also quite viable, but I the autoformer MA6900 solid state integrated is synergistic with the Sonus... | |
| Personal turntable/cartridge evolution 1971 Garrard 44M / Shure M91ED1973 Pioneer PL12D / Shure M91ED1974 Transcriptors Saturn / Vestigal tonearm / Shure V15-III1975 Trascriptors Glass Skeleton / Vestigal arm / Denon DL103D1977 Linn Sondek / Transcriptors Vestigal arm / Denon DL103D198... | |
| Zu Druid IV - the real deal? Dave,Yes, the Definitions are well worth the additional cost over Druids. In every way, the Definition is the more accurate capable speaker -- except one. The Druid can be used relatively near field and does have a special intimacy of presentation... | |
| Zu Druid IV - the real deal? Dave,The reason you might have to "get used to" the sound of a speaker is that the absence of a crossover in an otherwise tonally accurate speaker yields a sound quite unlike what you've heard from conventional speakers. The hifi loudspeaker indus... | |
| 300b, x45, 211, etc. While I've heard amps with just about every tube type, here's what tubes I can comment on in context of hearing all on the same system -- mine -- but of course in different amps:300B -- SET, PSET, PP845 -- SET, PSET, PP45 -- SETKT88 -- SEP, PSEP, ... | |
| Zu Druid IV - the real deal? D wants measurements from me. What good would it do for me to measure any speaker in my house? Neither I nor anyone else here listens in an anechoic chamber and hardly anyone has their room treated or EQ'd to flat response itself. More to the poin... | |
| Zu Druid IV - the real deal? Chazzbo,The appeal of Zu speakers is in their holistic representation of music. Frequency accuray is sensational on Definitions, and very good on Druids. Phase coherence is about as good as you have experienced and far better than most speakers. T... | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? CDW,Your dogma is static measurement. That's OK, but it's been proven time and again that we're not measuring enough or we measure the wrong things, for measurement to reflect what a component sounds like. I have a preamp in my stash that is one o... | |
| What's best low cost 845? An acquaintence bought a Dared 845 amp some time back, and brought it by to hear on my speakers. It sounded good. The 845 tube used to any reasonable level of competence gives you relatively muscular sound for SET -- more drive than, for example, ... | |
| What's best low cost 845? Tough to find 845 amplification for a kilobuck or less. Watch for used Dared. The 845 tube is very affordable in its Chinese variants, with the 845B/C/M all capable of quite good sound, but these circuits are high voltage, which does raise parts c... | |
| spendor 3/5 vs era vs avi vs vienna acoustics hayd Well, Aktchi, he asked for a small monitor form factor and it wasn't clear he wanted used. Druids take up only the same floor space as a small monitor with stands, so they ought to be viable for that kind of placement, but I usually find that some... | |
| spendor 3/5 vs era vs avi vs vienna acoustics hayd Mrtennis,I think you're correct about Silverline if you heard the SR11, SR12 or SR17. And some of the floorstanders. But the SR15 and SR16 are voiced differently and each should be appealing in different ways to someone seeking what the original p... |