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| Turning amp up - any limit? Maggies and Sanders Magetch. My approach has always been to turn it up until you see flames or smell smoke, then back off the volume a smidge...Seriously, I stop turning things up when the dynamics flatten out/hit a ceiling. | |
| Budget preamp recommendation...besides Schiit. Quicksilver for sure. Simple, fantastic sounding, and affordable either in remote or non-remote version. I've had the 6922 remote version since 2014 without a hiccup...just a superb pre. | |
| Speaker and Cable Suggestions Please Oh, and you'll be fine with 12g stranded cable with good connectors... don't misdirect your money on $$ cables. | |
| Speaker and Cable Suggestions Please Diminishedchord, Definitely check out the Dynaudio line of standmounts. Your integrated has the power to drive them, and these are speakers that get great owner reviews as well as critic reviews. Yes, the Harbeths, Spendors, and ProAcs are great ... | |
| Pass Labs 1st Watt Rundown For what it's worth, I have owned and listened to the M2 since 2014, and I adore it. It is simply a wonderful amp that I will never sell. I drive it with a Quicksilver preamp and it powers my 89db-sensitivity Spendor 1/2s with all of the dynamics ... | |
| I'm going to buy my first tube amp. I need honest blunt opinions Marshinski15, Just realized your speakers are 90db (87db), not your intended listening levels...my bad. I would still go for something with more grunt. Btw, the new KT Monos Mike Sanders offers would be a safer buy than used V4s, Mono 90s, or Sil... | |
| I'm going to buy my first tube amp. I need honest blunt opinions I agree with Quicksilver, and I would go for the 100W KT Mono amps, not the Mid-Mono. 90dB is loud, and the Mid Monos would squash dynamics at those levels. I suggest staying away from the Cary amps because getting tubes for these babies requires ... | |
| KT-77 vs. KT-66 Hilde45, The M60s were actually designed around the EL34 tube per Mike and will happily use these as well as 6L6s. I ran both in my M60s with grrat success. | |
| Matched Tubes Quicksilver Line Pre Agreed, These tubes will last a long time as long as you don't leave the pre on crazy hours every day, etc. | |
| Is My Tube Amp Unfixable? Help Needed Thanks to all for your suggestions, and Ralph, you are my new hero, seriously. Thank you! I really love the amp and did not want to do something nuts (i.e. toss it), so I think a solution is in sight now. | |
| Is My Tube Amp Unfixable? Help Needed OK, now we are getting somewhere because without the input tube (12AU7), the noise has vanished...gone. So Ralph, I'm assuming a good tech would simply check for bad components in the input stage? And I'm guessing this also eliminates things like ... | |
| Is My Tube Amp Unfixable? Help Needed Ralph, Awesome advice, and thank you for these suggestions. I am going to try removing the input and driver tubes and see what happens...Stay tuned! Btw, the amp is noisy no matter where it's operated, so not an RFI issue from what I can tell. | |
| Is My Tube Amp Unfixable? Help Needed No RFI/EMF sources and no AC issues, and I have tried this amp in 2 completely different systems w/ 3 pairs of speakers, in FL and now in SC. I have been in audio for 35 years and never encountered an issue like this. Amp bias is dead on as well, ... | |
| Is My Tube Amp Unfixable? Help Needed Carlsbad, This amp exhibits noise when not connected to a preamp, and I have tried it with 4 completely different tube sets. What do you suggest may be generating the noise? | |
| Is My Tube Amp Unfixable? Help Needed Hi Larry, My very first guess was also a bad solder joint somewhere, but Mike personally went though the amp and could not locate any. And the binding posts have always been fine to my knowledge...nice and tight. The guitar amp shop actually did ... |