charles1dad
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| Tekton Double Impacts Hi Bill (Grannyring),I feel that your assessment of the Double Impacts is very astute. Having heard this speaker my impression matches yours. It is a very good sounding speaker. As you point out it isn’t perfect (nor is any speaker) but it has sub... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Aric, Thanks, the sweetspot operating point of a tube is where I want to be. 18 to 22 watts is far from stressing the 845 which is an additional advantage. Charles | |
| Tekton Double Impacts So many fine amplifier options are available for this speaker. Charles | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Aric,I really like the 845 tube,probably as much as I do the 300b. I’ve thought about having a 845 or 211 SET as a second amplifier as I’m keeping the Frankenstein permanently. I don’t use my 2 push pull amplifiers much at all anymore. I suspect t... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Aric,I sure agree with your comments on triode compared to ultralinear mode. Although a 300b SET is my main amplifier I also have 2 PP tube amplifiers. One is el 34 and the other is 6550/KT 88 and both are switchable between the two modes of ope... | |
| What makes you build a system around an amplifier? Hello Eric, I use the Coincident Frankenstein MK II 300b SET mono blocks, BTW my system is posted on this site. My amplifier progression was Symphonic Line (transistor), to tube push pull class A/B X 2 different amps. I bought the Frankenstein out... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Tom,It sounds like you're having a ball with your new KT 88 SEP amplifier. You may not be able to contain yourself once you get the DI SE paired with this amplifier 😊. Charles | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Hi Aric, I really appreciate your clear and thorough answer. Some really hard core diehards tend to favor AC heating particularly for the 45 and 2A3 tubes. The 300b seems to be the dividing point (in terms of power) and above this level (say 211... | |
| What makes you build a system around an amplifier? Hi Roxy54, Although I know that each component in the signal chain is important I've come to regard my power amplifier as the "soul" (as you put it) of my system. In reality you can choose to build around speaker, source, amplification etc. and be... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Aric, Thanks for the reply. Yes, eventual "drifting"-of matched tubes was the concern. Your solution of having separate bias control for each output tube seems as though it would solve that problem. Aric regarding hum are you a proponent of DC ... | |
| Jetrexpro's music on YouTube Hi Jet, I listened this morning and enjoyed your music. If you ever decide to make a recording let me know. Do you play jazz? I love jazz guitar chords 😊. Charles | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Hi Aric, I can see the advantages of a parallel SET (PSET) design. One issue I’ve seen raised concerning this parallel configuration is maintaining equal power sharing from each tube in the pair. Apparently there’s a tendency for one of the tubes ... | |
| I need help, please? Listening to my system through music! One comment regarding the Triode Corp is that they offer different lines or tiers of price and quality. TRV and the upper scale TRX models. I’ve only heard the TRX versions and they are superb but admittedly considerably more expensive. The TRX ha... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts David, I suspect that we agree more than we disagree. You cited Ezra and that’s a good example because he has solid context. His DI SE speakers compared to his expensive Sonus Fabers. You can agree or not with his personal experiences but he does ... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Hi David, Well it looks like we have different perspectives on this matter. I feel the same as Mac and Vitop, someone "hears" the speaker and doesn’t like them, okay no problem. Someone says the speaker isn’t as good as speaker A orB because it do... |