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| Best Integrated Tube Amp for 2.5K or Less Congrats on your purchase, Dennis! I think you'll like what tubes do for the Aerius i. Marakentz, you make a very good point - often it's most cost-effective to buy a very good used amp instead of a less expensive new one. By the way, the local Ma... | |
| Which speakers work close to back wall? The Gradient Revolution with its dipole bass module (which can be oriented for best sound in-room) and cardioid mid/tweet module (which minimizes reflections off the "front" wall) was designed from the outset to work well close to one wall (but no... | |
| Anyone own Innersound Speakers? I neither own nor sell either Martin Logans or InnerSound speakers (though I do sell InnerSound amps). I sell a rival brand - Sound Lab. But, I'm a fan of electrostats, so let me offer a few comments.The Martin Logans are better looking and give y... | |
| Quad ESL 57's...Best Spkr Cable? In my experience electrostats do well with a wide, flat cable. This geometry minimizes time smear related to the skin effect, wherein low frequency signals travel in the conductor and high frequency signals travel along the surface, resulting in s... | |
| Tweak a Jolida 302B or Look Elsewhere? While my 302B doesn't hum, I've had other (much more expensive) amps that did. The technique Viridian suggests may well solve your problem. In one instance I mounted the transformers on rubber grommets, which worked quite well. | |
| Best Integrated Tube Amp for 2.5K or Less In response to Marakentz's post: Before I took on any entry-level tube amp line, I discussed various low-priced tube amplifiers with an experienced local audio technician who's a hard-core audiophile, as well as an audio equipment manufacturer and... | |
| Should dealers be able to...... Thanks, Tireguy and Unsound, for taking the time to reply. Tim, you really made my day! Yes I have also enjoyed our interaction here, and I'm glad to hear I haven't crossed the line. I value this forum a great deal (likewise the Asylum), and come ... | |
| Should dealers be able to...... As a dealer, I would very much like to know if an Audiogon member does not want me to e-mail them. I hate spam as much as any of you. I do e-mail people sometimes, but only when I've read the post and think I have something to offer the person, or... | |
| My new dedicated room sound like crap,please help. In a small room, a little absorption goes a long ways. This is because, within a given time span, a sound wave goes through many more reflections in a small room than in a big one. So, any little thing you do will have an effect.YOu have two probl... | |
| Best Integrated Tube Amp for 2.5K or Less You might consider the JoLida JD-1000A, at $1700 retail. Disclaimer - I'm a JoLida dealer. I sort of specialize in amps that work well with electrostats, since my primary loudspeaker line is Sound Lab electrostats. The JD-1000A uses the EL-34 outp... | |
| Subwoofer Quandary Gunbei -There is a trade-off relationship between efficiency, bass extension, and enclosure size (some money gets traded off as well). Most people want the maximum bass extension and loudness in the smallest possible enclosure, which means you hav... | |
| Good budget monitor match for Plinius 8200MkII I second Steve's Maggie MMG recommendation - or, if you can find a use pair of MG-12's, that would be even better. | |
| What would you use Marakanetz, if you're asking about which speakers would one use to distinguish between different pianos, I once gave a demo to a piano instructor and she could readily tell me what kind of piano was playing. We were listening to a pair of Sound La... | |
| What kind of power wakes up electrostatic speakers Arrrgh - sorry for posting again, but I deleted a paragraph to rewrite it and then accidentally posted instead.What I wanted to say was that there are a number of tube amplifiers that also work quite well with electrostats (some of which I sell), ... | |
| What kind of power wakes up electrostatic speakers Greetings Steakster -Congrats on you Final purchase! That's one of the few electrostats I haven't heard.First of all, the Nakamichi Stasis is prone to going into oscillation and self-destructing when driving electrostats. Nakamichi skimped on the ... |