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| Is There any Truly "High End" Integrated Amp? Just got back from CES/Show, This year liked the RCM Bonasus integrated tube (16 watt side, $6000?) At last years show I heard the BAT being used in about half the rooms that I liked used to demo speakers etc...Was actually thinking alot about thi... | |
| Other than the SOUND, what do you love the most? The industrial/retro look of my first Audion 300b amplifier. | |
| Any member feedback from C.E.S. 2006? 1. RCM "Bonasus" 2 channel push-pull tube integrated was very good at $6000 price point, 16watt/channel 8 ohm, www.rcmaudio.pl2. Nuforce stuff was suprisingly good.3. AudioNote best-in-show??, even sounded good with Finish heavy-metal band, demoed... | |
| Cables /power conditioner- Order of importance Since I have just recently "discovered" power conditioners and the benefits in my own system, I would like to chime-in here as an interested neophyte. Audioblazer is asking about upgrading? Does he already have a conditioner in the system, or is t... | |
| systems seems to be playing slowly, need thoughts Jsujo: About the "timing" of music etc. I'm assuming it has to do do with the "upsurge" or "attack" of each cycle of frequency involved, like when certain copper conductors used instead of silver. Copper can give impression of better bass at first... | |
| systems seems to be playing slowly, need thoughts The other day I had a very similar sound from my system. On occasion in the past when the sound got weird/scratchy/slooow, I've un-hooked all the power cords, rearranged the power strips etc. No help this time with this regimen. Even more surprisi... | |
| Receiver Upgrade - Denon vs. Rotel A few months ago I decided it was time to upgrade my Nakamichi AV-10 receiver. Since the new stuff seemed so cheap in the Circut City etc. ads I went shopping. Two days later after several "auditions" of the mass-market stuff I compared $1500 Mara... | |
| Amp Question Please advise Antman; I think it is time to step up and buy "real" speaker cable. The original set-up spec for 5.1 is all 5 speakers the same and I assume it means cabling to those speakers also. Most of us do not use the Multi-thousand dollar cables needed to ... | |
| Amp Question Please advise I'm curious about the speaker wiring you are using, I have experimented around with different speaker wiring, especially the center channel, and found a great difference in "intelligibility" with different cables on the Paradigm CC I was using for... | |
| What Are Good Upgrade Tubes For a Jolida 1501RC? Jim; I'm trying out 12ax7 tubes today on my Almarro A205A MkII integrated amp and found the Electro Harmonix 12ax7EH seems to follow the same characteristics as their 6922. This tube tips up a bit from mid-range on up which is a bit too hot for me... | |
| Electro Harmonix tube opinions I have tried the EH (steel and gold pin), JJ, late 60's Siemens cca, some Chinese tube, Siemens 7308 in my DK VS-1 integrated amp. The original Chinese tube was similar to sound of Sovtek in some other equiptment Ive heard, only somewhat more "gra... | |
| Best small intro to tubes? Yesterday I had at home for demo a Opera Consonance, KT88 single ended or parallel feed, about $1,000, not the ultimate in tube sound but better than most recievers. Today at home for demo (from Deets Sound Room), I have Audion Sterling EL34 singl... | |
| Reasonable Hotel for CES Sahara. Book online. Acceptable rooms. Adequate Food. Is right on the last monorail stop, 5 minutes from CES. For THESHOW, go to CES, bus to St. Tropez. I usually just get a taxi at either end, about $7.00........If anybody is interested in doing ... | |
| Dk Design VS-1 mkII what tubes are you using?? For Dhdoc: After removing top cover, note metal "rings" around the tubes supported by two pins. The upper round tops of the pins are actually threaded nuts inside. Remove nuts by grasping with pliers and turn left to unscrew, then remove rings and... | |
| DK Design Group VS-1 what powercord/ic are using? I am using Analysis Plus power cord. On my old tube amp I noticed a small but beneficial improvement with this cord and on the Sony CD player a very small detectable differnece. On the DK I noted a very substantial and immediate improvement in "fo... |