bigkidz
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| What's Your Take on This ? For the price it is probably a very good deal. His comment that "The B&K amplifiers, as I have often said, sound tube like" makes me think that he have never heard tubes before and I take that as a poor description. IMO SS that sounds like t... | |
| Who wants the best improvement in their system EVER! ????????????????? | |
| Paypal issue beware. You can file a claim with your credit card company to see if that will help. Next time you ship something have the buyer give you an account at UPS or FedEx so that the claim is submitted on their end. | |
| Audio Repair in NJ??? Sorry I have been away with no access to voicemail. GOt your messages today and I will reach out to you tomorrow.Peter | |
| Alon Model 1 8" woofers blown Parts can make a difference for better and for worse. You can easily change the resistors to mills and upgrade the caps yourself for starters and you can undo the same if you do not like them. | |
| Should I eliminate my preamp? chuckjonez19 posts04-05-2018 10:55pmThe first truly high end piece of gear I bought was a pre-amp. I couldn’t believe that change it made in my system. Without changing my midfi CD player or power amp, I was hearing a 3 dimensional sound stage f... | |
| Vandersteen Treo CT Anyone still what to meet at Audio Connection? | |
| Sub-Woofer? First upgrade the SA-12. Buy Nichicon I think 30,000uf PS caps (I think the blue stock ones are 20,000uf so go the extra size just be sure they fit in there. The upgrade the diodes to HexFred, add a filter choke, and then add Caddock output resi... | |
| Should I eliminate my preamp? It all depends on the preamp!Happy Listening. | |
| First Tube Amp The build quality as mentioned above is usually the issue with these amps. They work great and sound good but the design is usually unstable so in the long run there are usually issues. There are many other tube amps that you can pick-up that ar... | |
| Are Avalon still in Bussines I understand the comments above but since I also build audio components, sometimes you get into crunch time and really cannot deliver the service you intend to deliver. As for me, my mother recently passed away and I had no desire to speak to any... | |
| Now, I'm confused. There are many factors to soundstage. A cable, speaker placement, preamp, DAC, etc. Happy Listening. | |
| Question for tube aficionados You can try swapping tubes for sure but even better is to change a few of the resistors. Carbon film, metal, shinkoh, caddock, etc. cheaper way to go and a lot more fun!Happy Listening. | |
| Old or new gear Take you time and find a Lafayette KT-550 tube amp. They come up on eBay every so often. It does everything so very right. It does use older 7025A power tubes but with a wiring change (changing a few wires on the tube sockets) you can covert it... | |
| Damaged speaker rubber on Focal Electra 1008 Be. Return or Keep? Any speaker re-foam or repair just contact Bill LeGall at Miller Sound in PA. Send him the pics for his opinion. Happy Listening. |