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| Ayre balanced interconnects my experience mirrors brusso17@comcast.net. what surprises me is that Ayre uses the same Cardas wire as interconnect in their products (unless I'm mistaken? someone correct me if I am) & Ayre products sound anything but closed-in & grainy! | |
| Best ICE-powered amps ? Drubin,I believe that ALL of Theta's amps were designed by Dan/Dave Reich incl the Dreadnaughts.Charlie Hansen could have designed somebody else's amps (I knew that he designed many of the Avalon speakers but I didn't know that he free-lanced amp ... | |
| Best ICE-powered amps ? >> Weren't they designed by Charles Hansen of Ayre?NO! to the best of my knowledge, they were designed by Dan(Dave?) Reich who used to work at Classe for years & years. When at Classe, all of his amps & preamps had model numbers that... | |
| Choice of tube amp? Ralph/Atmasphere,I'm confused by your following statement made in your 08-02-06 post:"If you are running ESLs it is the nature of the technology that you will have to run tubes for best results."vacuum tubes have always been voltage devices & ... | |
| Choice of tube amp? Ralph/Atmasphere,I'm confused by your following statement made in your 08-02-06 post:"If you are running ESLs it is the nature of the technology that you will have to run tubes for best results."vacuum tubes have always been voltage devices & ... | |
| 6550 tube vs KT88 Bartokfan,>> I think the issue here is that my Seas speakers area>> MTM design rated at 87db, so its just not a match for>> the KT88I do not understand this convoluted logic! what does 87dB SPL/W/m have to do with compatibility w... | |
| 6550 tube vs KT88 >> I found zero bass with the 2 88 tubes I testedagree w/ commercial member "Audiofeil". The KT88 tubes are anything but bass shy! I'm using EH KT88 in my JoLida 502A to very good effect. They sound better (more balanced over the entire audi... | |
| Speaker cable for Green Mountain Audio Callisto Elduende14,I have been following this thread regularly & note the interesting discussion of what the cost of the cables should be in relationship to the cost of the components. I noted that both sides of the coin are represented here (towards ... | |
| Speaker cable for Green Mountain Audio Callisto when I was at the factory listening to the Callisto, the speaker cable was Virtual-Dynamics Master. Superb sound! I do not know what other speaker cables used before at the factory might have sounded like so I have no comparison metric for you. Ho... | |
| Speakers Like Merlin VSM? Aktchi is hitting the nail on the head time and again!! However, the Bobby P is really being extremely immature in this thread. He didn't learn anything from Berning! I hope that all viewing this thread can easily this!!Bobby P: it would really be... | |
| Speakers Like Merlin VSM? Tubegroover,thanks for the feedback & the level-headed post. It is much appreciated. you & I have discussed this in another thread. Yes, neither do I want a p****g contest & I have no knowledge why Bobby P took the offensive route?If B... | |
| Speakers Like Merlin VSM? Bobbyapalkovic,why are you & I getting into an offensive??????????(the offensive is started BY YOU, A MANUFACTURER - REMEMBER THAT!, OK?)>> and i am not worried what you think of my product did you read my original post wherein I wrote t... | |
| Speakers Like Merlin VSM? Bobby,>> is this how you repay him?you are needlessly trying to go down a path that is dangerous & slippery!! I would strongly urge you to stop that right here!My comments on the Berning amp have NOTHING to do w/ the gentleman who invite... | |
| Tapping the Planet it skipps..... >> Tapping the Planet it skips.....Ach, it's skipping its orbit!! ;-)that's potentially unstable!does it generate a wobble? | |
| Speakers Like Merlin VSM? >> I once heard my Merlins hooked up to a Berning ZH-270>> and it knocked me out.I've heard this exact combination (VSM-MM with the ZH-270) & I cannot say anything good about it!!All I can say is that it had good sound but zero mus... |