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| Tubes or solid state for Sonus Faber Grand Piano FWIW the folks that own Sonus Faber in Italy elected to buy Audio Research; that should tell you something :) Sonus Fabers sound great with tubes. | |
| Which amp matches best my JM Lab Mezzo Utopia ? Aleko, wherever you read that tidbit, its not actually true. Also FWIW if the amplifier is balanced-differential you do not have 'doubled circuitry'. Differential circuits have the advantage of lower noise and lower distortion as opposed to their ... | |
| Best new loudspeaker stereo system a is accurate--factstereo system b is inaccurate--factso far, there would be no disagreement if the facts were established properly.to say stereo system a is better than stereo system b is illogical and only an opinion.Mrt, I did not... | |
| Obscure companies making excellent speakers? Dgarretson, I got to hear the Feasterex at RMAF, where the installation was much more musical than their installation at T.H.E. Show. The driver is easily at the top of the full-range driver firmament, like PHY or Fertin.Audio Mechanica of Fort Co... | |
| Best new loudspeaker Henryhk, they were right next to us at T.H.E. Show. He wanted to hear our amps and I had a backup set of M-60s available- The speaker is easy to drive (bass is handled by an internal amplifier) and every easy to listen to- spacious, detailed, wide... | |
| Which amp matches best my JM Lab Mezzo Utopia ? Aleko, if you use a balanced amplifier with the single-ended inputs, the entire amplifier gets used. Your speakers are tube-friendly but they need more power than most SETs offer, and the issue that you face with SETs is that the more power they h... | |
| Best new loudspeaker MrT, I've done a lot of recordings in halls and watched major labels at it too. They all put the mics up towards the front, so as to give you the perspective of the 'best seat in the house'. IOW if your equipment gives you a different perspective,... | |
| PRE_AMP for ATC- actives?? ATCs work fine with tube preamps too if our customer's reactions are any indication- of course our preamps have balanced outputs and plenty of drive (not that the ATCs seem to need it). | |
| Best new loudspeaker Shadorne, I think you are better at saying all that than me! | |
| Best new loudspeaker MrT, that which is real exists in time and space, and has the property of being measurable. Obviously specifications are measurable and therefore real, but so is love- it too exists in time and space, and the one experiencing it can definitely mea... | |
| Best new loudspeaker MrT, you might contact ML about that impedance. Its been that way with them for a long time, since the CLS 2 FWIW. I remember some of the Sequels were a little easier, and the old CLS 1 was the easiest of all...With regards to the communication: I... | |
| Best new loudspeaker MrT, most Martin Logans are about 0.5ohms at high frequencies, usually starting out in the lows at 4 ohms. There are literally no tube amps made that drive loads like that without difficulty. Its not a presumption on my part- its just the way it i... | |
| Euphoric Realism vs. Euphonic Romanticism Exlibris, I bet moving the speakers into a different room had as much effect as any amplifier you tried!Larger SETs over about 7-15 watts have trouble making bandwidth at both extremes due to the issues of the output transformer. My guess is that ... | |
| Euphoric Realism vs. Euphonic Romanticism Exlibris, some things about this thread are striking. First, are you really running a 300B amp your MBLs? The impedance curve of the MBLs is a mismatch with zero feedback tube gear and will result in a brightness in the midrange. Here's what is go... | |
| Reel 2 Reel Well- OK, I have used the very same machine to record LPs and CDs that I or others have released. Its not any harder to set up than other machines are though- and sooner or later they all need it- you either do it yourself or have someone do it re... |