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| Review: Bent Audio Tap Linestage Unfortunately, TVC's have separate windings for each volume setting, so you have burn it in at each setting you are most likely to use. Just wit, it gets much, much, better. | |
| Speaker suggestions for an Art Audio PX25 Hi Zola,I also have the AA PX-25. One thing I should point out is that Joe Fratus designed an unusually strong power supply, for a single digit output SET, that allows it to have the comparable drive of some 12-18wpc SET amps I've had in my system... | |
| DPS/Schroeder Ref. Turntable Thom,It's a Costco/Walmart world. Instant gratification and mass production are what people expect. Lasting quality, workmanship, and attention to the finest details are a thing of the past. | |
| CES / THE Show The funny thing about shows(the few I've been to) is that you can be standing right next to someone who is having the equivalent of a musical epiphany, and think to yourself "This sounds like total dogsh*t" and vice versa.Different strokes for dif... | |
| Richard Gray's 400 Pro = Emperor's New Clothes?? I went from a mid-fi higher powered system with 90dB speakers to a low-powered SET system with 97dB speakers. I first noticed a fairly loud 60Hz hum when I simply connected the higher-eff speakers to the older setup. It was even more noticeable wh... | |
| Best 300b single-ended Tube amp. for the $ Nice digital front end, Saffy. I have the Museatex/Meitner Bitstream dac(3V/300ohm output) which had full signal & power supply upgrades by John Wright of Museatex in Nov 2005. Definitely works extremely well with the PX-25 and high-eff speake... | |
| Best 300b single-ended Tube amp. for the $ Hi Saffy,In response to your questions:1. Both the Druid and Abbys are great speakers, especially Abbys for the money. I think the two do really well in small to medium sized rooms. Both benefit greatly from a subwoofer. Although, the Druids deliv... | |
| Best 300b single-ended Tube amp. for the $ Good choice Saffy,The PX-25 is one of the finest amps I have ever heard. It has a musical quality that is entirely unique, one reviewer coined the phrase "as if instruments were lit from within". I agree.The PX is 6wpc, but has current capabilitie... | |
| Best 300b single-ended Tube amp. for the $ "My monitors are 89db @ 7ohms,though if I added a powered sub wouldn't that compensate a little power distribution-wise?"Not unless you included some type of "high-pass" filter before the amp to block low frequencies from reaching it. Even then, i... | |
| Best 300b single-ended Tube amp. for the $ The hard part is finding new high efficiency speakers in his $2,000-3,000 range that will properly fill a large room. Used though, opens a pretty large selection:Klipschorn/La Scala types Silverline Sonata/SonatinaVon SchweikertsLiving Voice Audit... | |
| Best 300b single-ended Tube amp. for the $ Saffy,Decide on high efficiency speakers first because they will be the biggest determining factor in a low-power system depending on space, musical preferences, and replay volume. A better understanding of your preferences/needs would really help... | |
| Best 300b single-ended Tube amp. for the $ What price range are you talking about? | |
| 845 Tube vs KT90 You're not gonna let off the hook for that, eh?Any SE output transformer, including PSE, should require an air gap and larger size for the same output power as PP. SE also requires greater power supply attention because it does not benefit from th... | |
| Review: Bent Audio Tap Linestage "Wow" is an understatement, getting Placette owners to even consider anything else is something short of magical.(just joking)Now, to throw a new curveball into the mix, there are a few reports that the newer Supermalloy and Amorphous TVC/Autoform... | |
| 845 Tube vs KT90 Hi Warrenh,I was mistaken in my description, the SET-80 isn't SE, parallel Single-Ended (PSE), bridged, push-pull, or parallel push-pull(PPP). It's a kind of a hybrid of all.What the advantages are of that, I have no idea. Total harmonic distortio... |