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| YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics. The novelty isn't there. Most of the 50 yo and older group still came up in the time when good 2 channel gear was stepping out of the tube era where stereophonic recording was still a novelty. A stereo was prized possession of many young persons. ... | |
| Integrated Amps The Heaven 11 offers a compelling value and feature proposition: integrated with good power, tube preamp, DAC, headphone amp, phono preamp. Peachtree used to offer a similar integrated, but in a less visually-appealing package. Vincent Audio also ... | |
| No More Fake Reviews - So Who’s Gonna Tell Us What To Buy? The last thing the FTC will care about is audio. At least buyers can hear a product themselves and decide it it is good or not. Youtubers who get equipment samples to keep or flip are not their concern. Reviewers who get gear to review who require... | |
| Margules integrated The amp is class-A, 25W, using EL34 tubes, push-pull. I have listened to it for short periods and it sounds very nice. It is simple, features-wise, for its price class. but it is beautifully made. (For comparison, the Audio-Research i/50 has 50W... | |
| Recommend me a tube integrated amplifier Audio research i/50 can be had used in your budget. Margules 240i harder to find, but possibly similar price. A Willsenton R8 will be cheaper even with tube rolling if you are looking for transmitter tube integrateds (211s, 845s, 805s) you migh... | |
| High end bookshelf speakers for Small room Studio Electric M4 (passive, 2-way, acoustic suspension) Amphion Argon 3s (passive, 2 way, rear, passive radiator) Buchardt Anniversary 10s (active, 2-way) Alta Audio Alyssa (passive 2-way) Quad Revela One (passive 2-way) Genelec 8351 (active... | |
| How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound? I have a pair of Q Acoustics M20s. I bought them because I had seen reviews about how remarkably good they sounded. They were not expensive by today's standards, a pair of 2-way ported active speakers for about $500. I connected them to a streamer... | |
| Amps that don’t impersonate space heaters. Class A done well has special qualities that seem to come at a price. Only tubes seem to extract a similar price, thermally. I can suggest a couple of options: Combine a tube section preamp with a well-designed Class D (e.g., a ProJect Pre Box RS... | |
| List Of Small Company Tube Amps Thoress Margules | |
| Pairing Bookshelf Speakers to my Yamaha A-S801 Studio Electric M4 2-way, non-ported. A little over your budget, but excellent speakers Amphion Argon 3S also 2-way, non ported but with a rear passive radiator, used, in budget, new, about $3600. Elac Vela 2.0, pair, about $3000 I have not hea... | |
| Need A 10-30 watt Tube Power Amp, Lower Heat Output, Which Sounds Great, Under $1500 Used For a power amp, the NAD C298 I have found mates well with a tube preamp. It is class-D using the Purify module. It runs cool. Used, it is at your price range. I am using one now with a Pro-Ject Pre Box RS2 Digital preamp (which has a tube gain s... | |
| Need A 10-30 watt Tube Power Amp, Lower Heat Output, Which Sounds Great, Under $1500 Used NuPrime IDA-8. Class A-D. Compact. Runs cool. | |
| Need A 10-30 watt Tube Power Amp, Lower Heat Output, Which Sounds Great, Under $1500 Used I suggest a Sugden A21 SE Signature. 30W Class A. Solid-state integrated, of course. Despite Class A, it isn't a room heater. Over your budget. Willsenton R8. push-pull, tube. Integrated. Can run EL34s as well as KT88s, the former in your wattage... | |
| Integrated Suggestions for a Garage System If you are looking for a wireless control option (e.g., smartphone controllable) the Sonos Amp could be what you would need. You could put it in another room and run a speaker wire to your garage, or find a space in the garage out of the way. It i... | |
| Is D for Dry? Class D... I guess I have had pretty good luck with my Class D amps. I had a Peachtree Nova 300 running ICEPower modules, and it sounded pretty good. I now use a NAD C298 with Purifi modules (using a ProJect PreBox RS2 Digital preamp) and it sounds great. I ... |