carlsbad2
Responses from carlsbad2
| New In 2025 I see you've got quite a few responses. popular thread. | |
| Seeking New Amplification for My Graham LS5/5 Speakers These two pairs of speakers are very different. sounds like you like the M3s better. It is a mistake to assume that the more epensivve speaker should sound better. The Graham is indeed less sensitive but more power may not make it to your liking.... | |
| Power Supply Batteries have chargers. Unless you disconnect the charger you are running your charger you are running off the charger power supply which is usually not of high quality since the battery doesn’t require a quality power supply. In your case you'r... | |
| How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound? About 1% of your NAV. | |
| Townshend Audio Seismic Podiums Review Don't interpret my post as saying 'anything with a spring in it is great". Springs need to be matched to the load and Townshend does that for you. | |
| Tube amp repair who made the amp and is it circuit board based or point-to-point wired? | |
| Townshend Audio Seismic Podiums Review TLDR, but I have used the seismic platforms under my speakers for years. I was pleasantly surprised by the improvement. I'll add that springs are the way to isloate your speakers from the floor and let them vibrate as the OEM designed them to vi... | |
| Mystery with woofers. Help! To add to what @boxcarman said, I prefer attaching the speaker cables to the upper binding posts which drive the mids, tweeters where most of the music lives. then make sure the bass is still good, which is should be if your jumpers are well made.... | |
| Mystery with woofers. Help! I'd find some wire in my garage and make some temporary jumpers and be reporting back how the bass sounds by now. | |
| Under Pay Later - This listing contains contact information in the description????? Audiogon is paranoid about contact info. good luck. | |
| Will Accuphase E-800 be enough to power Klipsch La Scala speakers? I have a 1.8 watt decware that would drive them well and likely sound better. -Jerry | |
| Better DAC or better Streamer DAC hands down. I have a Chord Dave and it is huge. I also have the Farad power supply for it. I am not using mine now as I have gone Tube with Lampizator but in the AB the DAVE held it's own Jerry | |
| Western Electric 300B problem @sns Interesting that upscale burns in expensive new tubes. There are those that say tubes "should not be shipped after they have been used as the heat makes the filaments more brittle". I think if you can ship them before making the filaments ... | |
| Western Electric 300B problem Have you compared EMLs? I use those in my dac. where do you buy your ACMEs? | |
| Western Electric 300B problem I had a heater die (go open) lately on an 80 year old tube. |