danielk141
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| need help choosing budget tube preamp If you can live without a remote, the Melos SHA-1 is very nice.This piece is to single ended & tubes like the Adcom GFP750 is to balanced & solid state - both excellent sounding through simple circuitry.When you want to upgrade, you'll be ... | |
| battery-based SS amps I have a Rowland Model 2 amp. I also own the BPS-2, battery power supply for this amp.My experience is identical to Cruz123.This amp is so quiet in any system configuration I've used,my BPS is sitting stored on a shelf & the batteries are long... | |
| pass or krell Tell us what is in your system. | |
| Ribbon tweeters...out of favor these days? I finally found a metal dome tweeter that equals or beats the metal dome tweeter in my Avalon Avatars, the Berrylium tweeter in my new Usher BE 718s.These speakers both sound great, to me.Neither speaker can re-create the thunderstorm at the begin... | |
| Could use some amp suggestions If you don't have a balanced preamp, don't waste your time/money buying a balanced amp.I personally think 2 Adcom 5500s would be fine driving these.If I remember correctly, some of these Kappa speakers had a difficult to drive crossover scheme, th... | |
| SET the best? I had the Cary CAD300SEI. It sounded very good in my bedroom system.I got a pair of small floor standing Meadowlark speakers,with the Vifa Ring Tweeter. They sounded very good with the Cary. They sounded even better driven by my Pass Aleph 30. Tha... | |
| Dodd is to single ended as __ is to balanced. Try a BAT VK31SE. The price is close to your goal, used.I really like mine. It sounds very close to my Pass X1.I actually like the BAT better with single ended sources like my Arcam DVD. The Pass still has a larger soundstage, with my Electrocompa... | |
| Pass Labs amp for Usher Be-10 The original X250 had feedback & good bass control.The original X350 had zero feedback & less bass control than the X250 (to me).If the .5 amps are the same, I'd opt for the X250.5. | |
| Avalon Avatar vs. Avalon Eclipse Hooper ke,I'm in the same boat as you. I've owned my Avatars for several years now, I'm very happy with them. I live in Phoenix, there is no Avalon dealer in Arizona. The only Avalons I've seen come up used locally were identical to mine, my frien... | |
| NAD vs. Adcom I owned (4) GFA555IIs.I owned (2) GFA 5500s.The 555s are & were great for sub amps, but forward (bright) on my Magnepan 3.3Rs.The 5500 is current, and sounds much more musical, to me.I only sold both to go to Fully Balanced amps. | |
| Best value in 5 chan. power amp under $3,000 I had a Sherbourn 5/1500. I bought it new from my local dealer, kept it for several years, and sold it when I went to individual monoblocs.This amp has 5 monoblocks in 1 chassis. Think of a Bryston 9B SST with more power & a less fancy casewor... | |
| The Downside to Dedicated Lines vs. the Benefits Here's an alternative view, from the BAT website.They prefer one strong (20 amp) line to your entire system.Click on FAQs:http://www.balanced.com/ | |
| Tube or solid state rectification I had a Cary CAD300 SEI integrated. It had solid state rectification. The Cary 300B monoblocs have tube rectification. The general consensus is:Solid state rectification gives better bass.Tube rectification gives a more "romantic - tubelike"sound,... | |
| adcom vs parasound dilema I had a pair of Magnepan 3.3Rs.I tried them with (2) Adcom 555IIs,and (2) Parasound HCA1200As.The Parasounds were a newer design, and sounded less forward than the Adcoms.This was confirmed when I tried the same amps on my Counterpoint Clearfield ... | |
| Does Pass Aleph 3 heat up the room like tube amp? I had a PS Audio P300 conditioner on demo from my local Wilson/Rowland dealer. Stanwal is right on.Using the watt display on the P300, my Aleph 30 drew a little over 200 watts on start-up, and stabilized at 180 watts constant draw after 20 minutes... |