br3098
Responses from br3098
| Best pre-amp with a C-J Premier 11a Amp Years ago when I had a Premier 11A I tried several CJ tube preamps: Premier 14, Premier 16, CT6. The CT6 was the best of the bunch IMO. The CT5 might have been better but it was >2x the price.Later I acquired a "lowly" PFR as part of a whole ... | |
| Cube Audio Nenuphar Single Driver Speaker (10 inch) TQWT Enclosure All speaker designers know what their speakers are and are not capable of, and all speakers are a collection of compromises. There is no perfect speaker - that's why there are so many speaker types on the market.Whizzer cones are a useful tool to... | |
| Cube Audio Nenuphar Single Driver Speaker (10 inch) TQWT Enclosure I love single-driver and coaxial speakers and have owned several. IMO whizzer cones are a compromise and cause as many problems as they try to solve. Ex: (again IMO) the Omega 3 series sounds much better than the larger drivers. But they won't ... | |
| Opinions and recommendations on active loudspeakers All good recommendations, above. Now for something completely different:You should probably go listen to a pair of Meridian speakers. Everyone thinks of them for home theater but they can sound very, very good for music. One of the best 2-chann... | |
| Apogee Centaur Major + cary cad 805AE?? I would counsel no. I have tried to run tube amps on various Apogee ribbons and hybrids over the years and never found a combination that worked. The amps overheated and clipped, the bass was flabby - these speakers were just not designed for tu... | |
| Speaker Clarifiers? Things you should not spend money on until after you've hired an acoustic consultant.... or had your ears checked by a good audiologist | |
| Remote controlled DHT preamps? I use a great DHT preamp made by a wonderful gentleman names Radu Tarta. He is located in CT and designs & builds custom tube amps. His DHT preamp can be customized to suit your needs, is built like a tank and features great components. I d... | |
| Tonearm suggestions for my Nottingham Analogue Spacedeck Why don't you look at the Pear Audio tonearms? These are the final tonearm designs by Tom Fletcher of Nottingham fame are drop-in compatible with your deck. IMO and experience they are greatly improved over the older Nottingham offerings and wil... | |
| Speaker advice for listening to Blues music cedarblues, I have paired these speakers with several of my amps including 2W 45 SET monoblocks, a 5W EL34 (wired in triode mode), a 12W EL84 integrated and a 25W mac MC225 7591 PP, All sounded great but, as you would guess, very different. I'm ... | |
| Speaker advice for listening to Blues music Ahem, those are mine. If you have any questions feel free to ask away.I play all sorts of music (except country-western and hip hop), with a strong preference for jazz, vocals and small ensemble classical. I am taken with these so much that I ha... | |
| Most “disappeared” speakers. It's as much about the room and speaker placement than the speakers - maybe more. | |
| SUT or phono stage? I suggest that you find (or make) a friend who has an SUT that will match your cartridge and try it. I'm an SUT guy - I own several for my favorite cartridges and I prefer the sound of MC and an SUT to a high output phono stage or head amp. But ... | |
| Looking for speakers for my 4W SET amp 4W is tough4W is more than enough, assuming that you select symbiotic gear and aren't trying to play in a concert hall-sized space.My 45 Triode monoblocks put out 1.5Wpc and play plenty loud in my living room. How many enthusiastic owners of de... | |
| Bought some `Vintage Gear` I just wish vintage gear wasn't so stupidly expensive. I blame the Millennials!When I was in and just out of high school I worked for the old RSL. Every dollar I made went into gear - mostly Luxman. One of my daughters still uses some of that g... | |
| Looking for speakers for my 4W SET amp There are a lot of choices. A search on Audiogon will reveal a slew of threads. My short-ish go-to list of SET friendly speakers include:- Klipsch Heritage. Heresy to Khorn, depending on your room and your budget- Omega. All good. Speak to Lo... |