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| Bose buys McIntosh This is hardly bad news. A storied up-market home audio brand, made still in the USA, is bought from its PE owners by a well-known U.S. broad market audio company already well-established in the personal audio space, professional coms, in home aud... | |
| Adding tubes to integrated setup There are hybrid integrated options, most using tube preamp designs and solid state amplification. Vincent, Margules and others do this. Other options are separate tube preamps and solid state amps. Still a third are preamps with selectable tube o... | |
| Help me find my ideal Stereo Integrated Amp If you were willing to have an outboard streamer, the AR i/50 has everything else you want. | |
| Recommend me a tube integrated amplifier gbmcleod: The AR i/50 is not a hybrid tube integrated. The audio signal path is all tube, push-pull design. 50W. The solid state elements are the panel controls and the Lexie tube displays. It has a headphone amp that may be solid state and optio... | |
| My wife weighed in…she wants piano white tower/bookshelf If standmounts are also for consideration, Dutch&Dutch 8c are available in white. No subs needed. Full suite: streamer, DAC, DSP, subs, active, of course. Depending on your taste in cabinet design, the Genelec 8351s also come in white. 3-way a... | |
| Help me find my ideal Stereo Integrated Amp NAD M33, as mentioned. Class D with Eigentakt Purifi design. McIntosh MA8950. You will need a streamer.Class AB. | |
| My wife weighed in…she wants piano white tower/bookshelf Linn Series 5 active towers Bang & Olufsen Beolab 28 active towers KEF LS60 Wireless active towers (with REL T9x subs, in white) | |
| Help Deciding On New Speakers For Small Room, $10k budget You might consider something like Omega Super Alnico Monitors, which are full-range, mated with a REL subwoofer. The combination will not have excessive upper range dissonance and will have a very natural sound. They are also efficient, with sens... | |
| Ken Fritz's $1M Dream System update The auction prices don't tell us much except what equipment brings in a short sale window with unknowns regarding condition and costs of removal and transport. Whatever the system might have sounded like in the space where it was designed to sit c... | |
| Ken Fritz's $1M Dream System update The story is well over a year old, longer since Ken's death, the recorded interviews, several years. He built what he thought would sound best within a generous budget for any home system. He appeared to have a large vinyl collection, and his play... | |
| Solid State Preamp to replace tube unit Since you are already in the rarefied heights of CJ, I would suggest McIntosh C55 as a starting point. It seems to have everything you want. Less expensive, but not budget-level, would be Pro-Ject Pre-Box RS2, which is balanced I/O, has a dual ch... | |
| Solid State Preamp to replace tube unit I have been using a preamp with a selectable tube gain section (Pro-Ject Pre Box RS2 Digital) with a ss class-D amp (NAD C298, which uses a Purify design). The combination has worked very well. The amplifier is rated 185W into 8 ohms. | |
| Budget integrated amp? Yamaha A S-801. | |
| What's the best Line Magnetic SET amp? The JBL 4349 speakers use a dual compression driver horn and a conventional 12-inch low frequency cone driver. They are large, for a "monitor," and are typically stand mounted to the JBL JS-150 stand. They do very well with tubes (and also with cl... | |
| DarTzeel’s new direction There can only be so many buyers of $250,000 amplifiers. At that level, a certain level of performance is expected, and appearance, but that isn't all of it. How much better are they than the units that sell for a quarter the price? Veblen goods a... |