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| best integrated amp. Between Vitus snd Gryphon these are substantially more refined then anything under$15,000 and will easily compete with seperates of similar cost.For Pass labs without question the integrated 30, and 60 are much better then the 150. The 30, and... | |
| What makes an expensive speaker expensive More times yhen not the cabinet can cost more then the driversAnd Xover which it should not. Companies like Harbeths Not much to the cabinet, or that expensive of drivers.they have a excellent patented midrange material ,that being said the xover... | |
| Shopping for a preamp This is for the Audiophile who wants to have a amplifier, or preamplifier Exactly The way he wants. The 101D is a fantastic tube the best I know of for a preamplifier tube ,none more linear.And Vacuum tube rectified by the great 274 dual triode re... | |
| Performer-in-Room Quality with Speakers? Without a doubt the Spatial Audio M3 Open baffle speakers with turbo reference Upgrade,and top M25 compression driver. Not only sound real but super efficient 94 dB @1w. For under $3;000 a very simple 2nd order Xover and much more Modern design t... | |
| The best Standmount Loudspeaker $6k or under Hello of fourteen I have heard thd Harbeths 30.1That us not sure under $6k speaker.To date thd New B&W 805- D3 are exceptional and a great standpoint Usjng Mundorfs best capsciyors, Diamond tweeter,new Xover as well as Mid-Bass driver and upgr... | |
| CHINESE tubes? That is a totally inaccurate statement. Vac , and many others have been using dependable matched tubes for years Shugaung has been making tubes since 1958. They have had old RCA and Tungsol original machines in there from way back and have made ne... | |
| Audiocap Theta Audyn True Copper Mundorf Supreme I would go one step further. In my Spatial audio M4 speakers I was using the new Evo silver gold oil caps . These huge caps are 70% bigger and they just slightly upgraded to a max version make 2% better. These are a great cap IMOBetter then Mundo... | |
| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable I have spent 1,000s in brand named big name cables most recently the Synergistic Element Tungston,after the MIT cables A smaller cable company named Silnote Audio brought more natural detailed music At at least 30-40% less money. If you look a lo... | |
| New KT150 tubes? My Jolida Fusion 3502 , not the S model has much more premium partsAnd has many upgrade options.I use all 19 50s preamp tubes Big upgrade and switched out the very sweet EL34 Power tubes 50wpc. Now the KT 150 tubes up the power to 80 wpc.The mi... | |
| Question about valves running hours To further clarify. Like myself I wanted to completely runin the circuitAnd left on for 300 hours non stop. My amplifier sits on top of rack And heat is not a issue tubes are made to dissipate heat mainly from the Larger input power tubes with no ... | |
| Question about valves running hours That makes no sence at sll. I recently bought the Excellent Jolida Fusion 3602 integraded amp.with a bunch of of upgraded parts including the Excellent Rike Audio paper oil capacitors that take 300 hours to break in.Check out their Amplifiers $3... | |
| Preamp... Solid State or Tube It comes to what do you have for a amplifier and how detailed it is I have been doing this for 40 years and In my opinion a great vacuum tube pre amp complements the Solid state you get better image depth and more dimensional with Vacuum tubes.Le... | |
| klipschorns, they kick ass for sure I have owned many Klipsch Loudspeakers thd K horn has so much potential.The critest xovers are a good starting point. parts are not evrn close to reference Xovers I have uses Munrorf s lot besides ultra expensive DeulundA great little know hand m... | |
| Best KT88s (specifically for VAC Auricle Musiblocs) Shuguang kt-88 I have tried regular and Cryo ed. For $180 for a quad Cryo ed are clearly more detailed and refined then thd standard tubes Which are very good these have 36 hours tested in the factory plus several hours after 48 hr Cryo treatment... | |
| Questions on KT150 tubes I too have the Jolida Fusion 3502 Bass on el 34 is tight and punchy,image depth and natural rich midrange without Question best with el 34 tube very important for top shelf input tubesI use 50s black plate Raytheon 12ax7,and GE 5star phase split... |