daveyf
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| Your tube preamp and ss amp thread @wolf_garcia Guitar players dont really care how much distortion the tube gives off...in fact the more the better. Not a good analogy with home audio, IMHO. | |
| Repair tech for Linn LP 12? OP, Dan at Blackbird is still in business, although I think his web page has basically shut down. You will need to leave him a message if he doesn't answer. | |
| Jeff Rowland Corus versus Audio Research Ref 6 Last night I swapped back in my Rowland model 8T with Jeff's mods and I was once again reminded why this amp is such a great match up to my new CAT preamp. The amp is just so incredibly well built and gives one such a feeling of quality that I dou... | |
| Keeping backup equipment? If you run tube gear, as i do, it is quite nice to have a backup ss amp around for a couple of reasons, 1) The ss sound is a different 'flavor' to the tube sound and 2) if the tube amp needs service, the ss amp is there. | |
| Heat from amps? Amp heating the room seems to have a great deal to do with how large the room size is and how hot the amps run. Tube amps generally seem to run hotter than ss. However, another variable is how much heat radiates off the amp. I have a large ss amp ... | |
| Monitors that use the Dynaudio Esotar Tweeter Just to clarify, and correct a prior error on this thread, the tweeter in the Sonus Faber Guarneri Homage is NOT a Dynaudio Esotar, instead it is a D28/2 customized for SF. There has been ongoing misinformation about this since the well known revi... | |
| Wilson Audio Specialties Chronosonic XVX loudspeaker!! only $300,000.oo @jasonbourne52 The original price of the 40th Anniversary LP12 was $40K!! I think there are a few poor souls ( well a little poorer now) who actually ponied up for them! Made absolutely no sense to me at the time, just like the $25K price now...... | |
| Wilson Alexx V @carey1110 Your question is one that everyone has to answer for themselves. If money is no issue, then yes, they are definitely worth the difference...:0) | |
| Favorite cable brand. I am very impressed with these cable lines:1) Zen Wave...Dave's cables2) Graceline by Black Cat3) Nordost. | |
| Wilson Alexx V @highend666 The speaker I heard was the Alexx V, in most ways not related to the Wilson Alexandria Series 2...not Alexx Series 2. Admittedly, their naming can be confusing sometimes. Yes, the Alexx V is a way superior sounding speaker to that old ... | |
| Jadis DA88S mkii integrated I am a big fan of Jadis. Their amps are truly some of the best I have heard, and with the new KT150 models, i have yet to hear another tube amp that I would rather own. Plus their build quality is second to none, IMO.I have not heard the DA88s, bu... | |
| Wilson Audio Specialties Chronosonic XVX loudspeaker!! only $300,000.oo @john1 Uhmm, The Sasha 1 utilized the same Focal Tweet as the Watt Puppy 7...How anyone could prefer that tweeter over the new Wilson silk dome is beyond me..Yes, the YG Billetdome is very good, but IMO so are the new Wilson silk domes..unless y... | |
| Wilson Audio Specialties Chronosonic XVX loudspeaker!! only $300,000.oo @nationalbar Looking at the pricing points of the Wilsons ( or for that matter any high end product that has a multi kilobuck number attached) is something that serves little purpose to me. I think we tend to forget that there are a lot of folks w... | |
| Wilson Audio Specialties Chronosonic XVX loudspeaker!! only $300,000.oo @edgewound I always laugh when I see an example of what you posted about with guitar ’collectors’. I have a friend who cannot play a lick and who recently was more than happy to show me his newest Gibson LP Gold Top...which he just paid over $40K ... | |
| Interested in any feedback from current Kharma or Vivid speaker owners I totally love the sound that I have heard from all of the Vivid’s that I have heard. I wanted to state that up front. I had an opportunity to look inside one of their speakers recently, please PM if you would like my impressions of what I saw. |