carlsbad2

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I feel it is time to upgrade my 1977 system.......
You need 2 watts to drive those speakers.  The first review of them I found lauded them for great sound with a type 45 tube amp (1.8 wpc).  You said you don't want a tube amp but you could consider a simple 300b or 2A3 with single input tube per c... 
Luxman 507ux Empower Project
Awesome!  
Luxman 507ux Empower Project
Sounds about right.  Whenever you start upgrading you find a lot of things to fix.  Especially if you are the kind of guy who likes to have it right.  I like a point to point amp better, but that is tubes. I'm in favor of the 15 amp fuse.  It won... 
Innuos and Roon?
I use Roon and an Innuos Zenity MK3.  Very satisfied. I do not install the core on the streamer.  I have a separate core.  The thinking is that you want the core processing to happen on a different machine that the streaming is done.    I do inte... 
Anybody here upgrade from Chord Qutest DAC"
After borrowing my friend's Cutest for a week, I bought DAVE and never looked back.  Very happy.  Added M-scaler.  even happier.   Good luck, Jerry  
An Objective Review of the Tekton Double Impact Speakers
So @audiofreak32 is pissed at Tekton and is digging up every old Tekton-bashing thread he can find and posting his story on it.  Lots of emotion in his writing.  Maybe romance novels next. If anyone wants to hear a pair of Tektons supplied by an ... 
Whats your sound system for your computer?
I think it is worth buying a powered speaker with onboard DAC since the DAC in the computer is poor.  I have PSB and Audioengine.  I returned a second set of audioengine since it wouldn't set as the default speaker and I had to go select it every ... 
The 300B World
late to the thread, I see the topic has turned to rectifiers.  I find the rectifier to be almost as important as the output tubes (and don't forget the input/drivers). There are a lot of interchangeable rectifiers and I'm an ardent tube roller, b... 
Is a home theater even worth it or doable?
I think home theatre is very enjoyable and not that hard.  While my 2 channel system is what I consider high end, my home theatre is relatively  standard wtih a Denon 4700 HT reciever.  I use pre out from the Denon into my 2 channel amp for the fr...