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| Best Vinyl Bach - Solo Cello Suites recording? Johnnyb, totally agree on Harrell. He is a consummate musician, and I find the sound of his cello much to my liking. I've heard Starker, Ma, Mork, Alban Gerhardt, Bailey, and so many others live. I've heard Ma live multiple times. Harrell beats th... | |
| Elrog 300B vs Takatsuki 300B tubes Charles, what you suggest is certainly possible. I think you and I so far are in complete sync with respect to what we hear, and that holds despite the disparity in our musical tastes. I just can't fathom how the guy who designed the equipment I a... | |
| Elrog 300B vs Takatsuki 300B tubes JWM, Charles indicates that Israel endorses the WE101Ds for the CSL, and they are $600 a pair. Not sure this is Israel's relentless (and that is a good thing for his customers) efforts to excel with respect to the value proposition. I suspect he h... | |
| Elrog 300B vs Takatsuki 300B tubes Charles, well this is a conundrum and no mistake! As you know, my point of comparison for the Elrog 300B was the Psvane T1 black glass 300B, which I also suspect may be Israel's reference tube. As you also know, I issued a rapid and emphatic endor... | |
| Elrog 300B vs Takatsuki 300B tubes Ddriveman, one of the goals for the Elrog 300b was to exceed the performance of the old WE300Bs. The tube designer worked a long time on this tube until he felt like he had achieved his goal. I have not had the pleasure of auditioning the WEs, but... | |
| Removing components from between the speakers I think there is some wisdom in approaching things audiophile as an experimental question, not as conformity to a particular dogma a priori. I appreciate Jim Smiths book, but I have yet to live in a house where I can reasonably put his recommendat... | |
| Elrog 300B vs Takatsuki 300B tubes Dmarkov, I think you do us all a service by issuing a word of caution. Not everyone has the luxury of running expensive experiments. For those who are not in a position to roll the dice on a pair of 1K tubes, it may be well to carefully consider y... | |
| What's the greatest bargain in SET these days? Rebbi,Keep your eyes open for a pair of used Coincident Triumph Extreme IIs. If a pair comes up, buy them. However, don't hold your breath waiting for me to sell mine. Not happening, unless I find a pair of used Super Victories. Meanwhile, enjoy! | |
| Planars/ Electrostats benefits over box speakers? Sunnyjim, I have been a long time ( 20+ yr) owner and advocate of Magnepans. I picked up a used pair of Coincident Triumph Extreme II monitors and they outperformed my MG 3.7Rs in nearly every respect. Coherence, accuracy of timbre, and resolution... | |
| Elrog 300B vs Takatsuki 300B tubes To my ears, the Elrogs are just outstanding in the Coincident Franks. They are much better in essentially every respect as compared to the Psvane Ts. Previously, I had found no preference in comparing the Ts to the TIIs, and found both of them sup... | |
| High value, high efficiency speakers for SET amps Rebbi, if you recall, I also drove the deCapos with my 500 WPC solid state Cary monoblocks and found the 8WPC Frankensteins drove them better. One of the other posters commented that the deCapos are unusually sensitive to amp/speaker synergy. That... | |
| High value, high efficiency speakers for SET amps Rebbi, long, long, ago, in a land far, far away when you started this thread, I drove the deCapos with 3 different amps. If your AN is even remotely close to my Coincident Frankensteins, I am not one bit surprised that you are very pleased with th... | |
| High value, high efficiency speakers for SET amps Mapman, ubetcha! All I want is music that sounds like music. | |
| Cary SA500.1 mono blocks Al, good catch as usual. KWA should call Cary on this. If this is the issue, he could damage the amps. BTW, the first iteration of the manual did not have that warning. It was added after the issue was observed by owners. | |
| Cary SA500.1 mono blocks Something is wrong. I owned the 500.1s for about 2.5 years and they were dead quiet. Do they hum with no inputs connected? |