artmaltman
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| Tubed Integrated/$1500/New or Used Cary SLI-80. Ok, maybe just a little over your budget, but not much...Art | |
| Audible Illusions M3a owners tube life? The AI M3a runs the tubes in standby mode at all times when it's not turned on to play music. I like this a lot, but it did seem to take its toll on tubes. I found the sound of my M3a benefited from changing the tubes every year or two, even if I ... | |
| Your Opinion Please / SF Grand Piano H/ Cary SLI80 I'm using Cary SLI-80 in a fairly large room with Silverline Sonatina II's and I found that adding a REL Strata III sub made a substantial improvement. Oddly the sub seems to improve the sound quality from top to bottom. Art | |
| DK Design VS-1 versus 300b sound Jmcgrogan2 makes an interesting point, when he suggests it's hard to believe that a hybrid could sound like an SET (or visa versa I guess).Thirty years ago tube amps and solid state amps sounded very different, and they each had their strengths an... | |
| "It doesn't impress you at first..." There are two reasons I think why this warning is true:1. It is possible to engineer features into components, especially speakers, that will impress upon first hearing but become irritating over time. Exaggerated treble or bass will make a speake... | |
| cary v12 monos vs cj premier 5 monos Premier 5 is pretty old model. A classic though. V12 has been through several iterations, V12, V12i, V12r, be sure you are getting the version that you really want.Art | |
| Speaker cable length for L/R channels critical? does this explain why, when I turn on my sub, the entire frequency range that the main speakers produce, top to bottom, sounds richer to me? I've wondered about this recently.Thanks,Art | |
| DK Design VS-1 versus 300b sound I'm also one of DK's three testers. I used to own Conrad Johnson Premier 12's, with preamps CJ 17LS or First Sound Deluxe mk II, so I do have a strong taste - I think - of high quality tube gear.SET vs DK is to me to be the missing element. I've b... | |
| DK Design VS-1 versus 300b sound Sorry that I was not clear - perhaps a poor attempt at humor. I thought those were some real useful and meaningful posts regarding DK - not shill at all - and I was making fun of some people's knee-jerk reaction (including my own at first) that if... | |
| ProAC 2.5 users please share experience on amp I found the Proac 2.5 benefits from serious power. I think the sonic signature and overall level of quality of the Cary SLI-80 would be a great match, and the power adequate but not optimal. That is, I think that more power would be likely to prov... | |
| DK Design VS-1 versus 300b sound Shill ! ; - ) | |
| Resale value of modded CD players? That pretty much sums it up: some people don't want to even begin to deal with mods. Others are cautiously interested, depending on whether the mod was done by a "name" (Mitch Sugarman comes to mind for me), or whether the mod was very simple and ... | |
| Phono Cable recommendations I had a coherency problem with the Silver Oval when I used it as an interconnect between cd player and preamp. I loved their Analysis plus all copper speaker cables, but the silver oval i/c sounded discontinuous to me between the treble and midran... | |
| DK Design VS-1 versus 300b sound Thanks for digging up those references to the folks who switched from tube amps to DK amp. I actually did read those when they first appeared and I totally forgot about them. Art | |
| Phono Cable recommendations In phono cables I love Cardas Golden Ref. I use the DIN to RCA, and I don't know whether this has the same construction as their RCA to RCA interconnects. I used to use the Graham IC-30, and it was amazingly clear and pure and detailed without bei... |