darkmoebius
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| Matched Tubes do I need them and why? Depends on the actual circuit design of your preamp. Sharing the manufacturer and model of your pre will help others in answering your questions | |
| Why so few high end line arrays? 09-04-09: ShadorneYou are getting serious comb filtering from listening close up to multiple drivers with the same bandwidth. Not entirely true. Comb filtering is NOT an issue in nearfield listening if the center-to-center distance of the drivers ... | |
| First Watt F3 or Red Wine Audio 30.2 Why are you evaluating these amps? There are so many great name brand amps..these guys may be out of business in this economy at any time. Get real, Pass Labs has been around since '91 and this isn't the first recession Nelson's seen seen. Hell, h... | |
| Very sad news - George Wright has died What a huge loss for society, overall, and the audio industry in particular. I spoke with George on the phone a few times while looking into his top phono preamp. He was always kind, sincere, and incredibly helpful.At a time when many companies ar... | |
| SET with inefficient speakers Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.In the SET world, that usually means starting with efficient or SET-friendly speakers and building your system from there. Any other approach, outside of luck, leads to a lot of trial & error, with mo... | |
| Upgrading from Wilson Sophia 2's? Bet a set of Wolcott P220M Monoblocks would drive the living snot out of those Sophia's (in a good way) | |
| Upgrading from Wilson Sophia 2's? I have a VTL ST-150 (that I use in another system) that I tried and the bass was just plain sloppy.If I remember correctly, damping factor(an amp's control over speaker cone) goes down as series resistance goes up(with longer cables).So, asking a ... | |
| Upgrading from Wilson Sophia 2's? Madfloyd, are you running 50 ft speaker cables or 50 ft balanced IC's to your monoblocks next to the speakers? | |
| What happened to Exact Power This is great news for our hobby. When I owned an Art Audio PX-25 amp, I asked the company's owner, Joe Fratus, which power cleaner/conditioner/etc. I should get which would not negatively affect the amps performance. He said the only products he ... | |
| What happened to Exact Power Nsgarch, you rock! Were they already working on an EP-20A, or is this something you've had up your sleeve? | |
| Integrated tube amp for Coincident Super Eclipse I'd look for a used Almarro A318B integrated (~$1,900 new, ~$1,100 used) which is an 18 wpc amp using Single-Ended 6C33C-B tubes for output.I have owned both the "A" & "B" versions of this amp("B" is far, far, better, especially for rock), it ... | |
| Integrated tube amp for Coincident Super Eclipse What price range are you looking at? | |
| SET with inefficient speakers Art Audio Jota - hi-power, hi-current version(different tubes, larger transformers). These amps can drive loads that very few SETs can even dream of. But, it will cost ya'... $13k new, ~$6.5k used | |
| SET with inefficient speakers Doesn't look like a good match, Dali recommends 50-350 wpc for the MS4. Seems to me that they designed the speaker specifically for amps of higher power. But, for the sake of discussion, how much are you looking to spend?The most important thing w... | |
| BAT Rex and Lamm 1.2 with WP8 synergy Why not just ask Victor Khomenko of BAT(he's the VK in their product names), he posts regularly on Audio Asylum in the Tubes and Amp/Preampss forums. He'll give a straight answer on this. Here is latest post two days ago |