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| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers I am using the new SR Red fuse. Very happy with that. | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers I have read good things about that. I am sure you have a very good amp for your purposes Lak. 300Bs are said to be very special tubes and I am sure the Allnic design is great. | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers Hi Lak. Unfortunately at least as far i know no one on this thread has heard both the 160iSE and the 160i. I used to have the VAC 300.1a amp and Renaissance Mark 3 preamp, which I think is probably sonically comparable to the 160i, although with m... | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers OK, John, perhaps you won't get all the way to the sweetness of the midrange you lost, but I am sure you will get at least some of the way there. Hope to hear the 30/30 somewhere.And thanks Wig. Unless I am imagining things I am getting an advanta... | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers John, one more thing I wanted to mention to you is that i think that any mid-range sweetness you may have lost when you gave up your 35/35 will likely come back if and when you upgrade to the SE version. Just such a gain in mid-range sweetness is ... | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers Thanks for the update John. Good to know about the VAC 35/35. One of the vintage VACs that has always been interesting to me has been the VAC 30/30 which runs on the 300B. Would not work with my NOLAs which I wouldn't part with anyway, but perhaps... | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers Wig:Looking at your VAC 160i ad photo, I have become curious what those two flat discs are for that you have placed on the front chassis surface of your VAC 160i? Are they to dampen vibrations? Do they work well? And who makes them?Thanks. | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers By the way, separately Wig mentioned he might look at the new Pass INT-60. | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers John, just curious, did you sell your VAC 35/35? It looked kind of interesting, although of course I have no use for it myself as I have my 160iSE. Anyway, after a few months of listening, how does the VAC 35/35's sound compare to your VAC 160i?Th... | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers I should mention that Kevin is not 100% sure about the use of E80CC as a replacement for 12AU7 as the three amp driver tubes. Brent said that the higher filament current draw of the E80CC is not a concern, but Kevin did once say to me that there m... | |
| Review: Concert Fidelity DAC-040 DA converter Has anyone experimented with different rectifier tubes in the CF DAC-040? I mean of course the single 6CA4/EZ81 that goes inside the box. I had been using a smoked glass Mullard which I just replaced with another of the same type. When I put the n... | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers Interesting auction I saw yesterday on EBay for these supposedly very special "pinched waist" version of the E80cc tubes I use as drivers for my 160iSE. http://www.ebay.com/itm/291346306614?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBID... | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers Wig, will definitely do that. Thanks for the tip. | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers Hi Wig, I am using the VAC supplied 12ax7s. But I have liked Raytheon blackplates there as well as as Philips. | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers John:I don't believe you can use any of those, except possibly the 6550, but I wouldcheck with VAC first as it could be problematic due to slightly different specs from the KT88. |