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| Audiogon/Asylum and magazine reviewers posts As someone who just started out about a year ago with tubes, I found Audiogon participants to be more inviting and approachable than the Aylum inmates. Though I have a lot to learn, I'm always ready to try to return the favor by giving as much as ... | |
| Anybody considerered Merlins? I love my Merlin VSM-Ms run with a 300B SET amp (I listen to classical music at moderate levels). I don't use a BAM but rather run them full range with a Janis 12" sub (50w SS). I abandoned the single driver relatively high efficiency approach (wi... | |
| Big Difference With New Source? With a revealing system, changes in source are very apparent and IMO establish the basis for achieving a natural musical presentation devoid of the digital artifacts that we all seem to dislike. I have an NAD 541 as my cdp in a project studio with... | |
| Compressed recordings? HiFi enemy 1? Hopefully classical recordings are done without compression but they may have it. Jazz may have compression and almost all rock/pop will have compression. There are two major problems with trying to 'undo' compression.1) You have no idea what comp... | |
| speakers for 300b amp Though you could biamp, many feel that you should run a 300B full range to allow harmonic development over the entire frequency range. | |
| What is the characteristic of diff. Triode Tubes? I took another closer look at the Divertech site.The ASL MGSi15 when running in triode mode is only 5w/ch. The 15w/ch is for pentode mode. If you want to use it in triode mode, you'll need fairly efficient speakers (say 92dB/w sensitivity) if you ... | |
| What is the characteristic of diff. Triode Tubes? Sorry for the confusion. I was referring to the AES Super Amp that I owned that was a push/pull design. It had 15w/ch in triode mode with KT88s. According to Divertech, the ASL MGSi15 DT is a SET design with KT88s. I have not heard that so I was t... | |
| What is the characteristic of diff. Triode Tubes? Disclaimer: Just trying to help so be aware that this is very subjective and I've only been into tubes for about a year with limited experience.Matching an amp (with various tubes) to a speaker with the appropriate sensitivity and characteristics ... | |
| Burn-in and Biasing And be sure not to touch the contacts, there's a lot of juice in a tube amp. | |
| Janis 15" Subs......Anyone???? B&W ASW-800 THX... I have all three Janis subs, a W1 (15) in a project studio, a W2 (15) in a home theater, & a W3 (12) in a small dedicated music room. They are matched with Tannoy 800 monitors (ss amp), Tannoy PBM 6.5 monitors (ss amp), and Merlin VSMs (SET tu... | |
| What percent of your system cost is for cables? Let's try that again . . .Here's mine:Total 12,000Equip 8,500 70%A-cable 1,500 13%P-cable/cond 2,000 17% | |
| Review: Bel Canto Design DAC-1 DA converter I compared the same two DACs in a dedicated headphone setup with both tube and SS headphone amps and Grado RS-2s and Sennheiser HD600s with Cardas replacement cable. The Bel Canto won easily IMO - smooth and sophisticated with wonderful detail. | |
| Meadowlark Kestral Hotrods vs. Shearwater Hotrods For a two channel music system, I'd definately go with the Shearwater (the woofer/mid driver is much better IMO). For home theater the Kestral might be a good choice with a sub and the Meadowlark Petrel center channel for a good match sonically. (... | |
| What do you think about this idea for the FORUMS?? Sounds good to me. | |
| Power cable question. The Asylum cords have worked well in my dedicated headphone system (see www.diycable.com for kits and assembled versions). Either these or used cords here on Audiogon should have a positive effect (tighter bass and cleaner highs). I use Silver Aud... |