charles1dad
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| Resolving CD Transports Crowd Sourcing @wharfy Sorry about your poor experience with the RS2T. Fortunately I’ve had excellent sonic performance you note without the reliability/customer service issues you suffered. It’s been brilliant for me. I assume that if you were seeking a musi... | |
| TEAC - New Transport TEAC has rightly earned its reputation for high level engineering. I suspect that this latest generation CD transport is an excellent component given the established VRDS (Sophisticated tray ) pedigree. I do admit that I really like the implementa... | |
| Not sure for power conditioner my amp or not. @smoorenc I am interested in your outcome. As this thread has proven, results/outcomes certainly are going to vary depending on the particular power amplifier and conditioner equipment under scrutiny. There aren’t any absolutes in these matters.... | |
| 300b lovers Unlike the 845, which relies on voltage to deliver more power, the super tubes provide more current thanks to higher emission, and plates are more Thank you Lynn for your reply. The EML tubes are a bit larger and heavier compared to my other 3... | |
| 300b lovers @lynn_olson 400 mA might not sound like much until you realize it’s at 480 volts, and the output transformer multiplies the current To give context to these stated parameters is the Blackbird easy, average or hard on the 300b tube? How is ... | |
| 300b lovers @lynn_olson The Mark I Karna's thrived on a matched quad of Emission Labs 320B-XLS, but that was also a serious investment. The European super tubes are something else Agreed. I had early production Elrog 300b tubes that sounded wonderful ... | |
| 300b lovers @lynn_olson I met Thomas Meyer at the 2004 European Triode Festival (I was the invited keynote speaker). He’s a lot of fun, and super knowledgeable about tube history. He, too, is a transformer enthusiast, particularly with modern transformer... | |
| 300b lovers @invalid I really like Thomas Mayer's 300B amplifiers I have long admired Thomas Mayer audio products (Particularly his power amplifiers). Given what I have learned regarding the Blackbird 300b PSET mono block amplifiers it’d be most intere... | |
| 300b lovers Quite attractive with an understated elegant aesthetic. Charles | |
| Not sure for power conditioner my amp or not. @facten I have had the opposite experience. in both of my systems I have found having the amps plugged into power conditioners improved the sound. May be it is the case due to the "quality" or lack thereof of our local power. Agreed. It m... | |
| 300b lovers Mark, Thank you for your very kind comments. Charles | |
| 300b lovers @whitestix If you have followed this thread, Don and Lynn have made significant enhancements to the performance of the pre-pro mono's I have, yet I just can't imagine how much better the SQ will be after Don gets them back and updates them to... | |
| 300b lovers @donsachs I can build an amp with entirely different parts and wire and have it be exactly the same from an engineering standpoint, but have a very different sonic presentation. I believe that is what Lynn is alluding to. Exactly my take... | |
| 300b lovers @ffzz I don’t think DC, IF well done, is any inferior to AC in DHT though. But there are many ways to get DC done. So it gets down to implementation at the end. The commercially available 300b amplifiers seem to bear this out. By a wide margi... | |
| 300b lovers @donsachs I value blackness between notes:) Understood!!! I learn much when reading the rationale of opposing positions. AC versus DC filament heating is one of the classic topics when discussing tube amplifier circuits . Charles |