decooney
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| Mundorf (non-oil) Silver / Gold EVO MCap Supreme coupling caps in your tube amp ??? 300HRs+ The Mundorf EVO Supreme SESG Silver Gold coupling caps sound absolutely beautiful now. As good in my Quicksilver Mono amps as they were in my former Cary amps. Worth every penny for my system. A few other amp owners have messaged and trie... | |
| Quicksilver audio silver 88 mono amps @fjs1155"I replaced the JJ KT88s with Tung Sol KT120s and the difference was remarkable." fjs1155, If you can recall, did you find the stock JJ KT88 output tubes to sound kinda lean and edgy and less musical in your QS KT88 Monos?Asking for a frie... | |
| signs that tubes need to be replaced @jchiappinelli Look here for additional signs...https://www.thetubestore.com/how-to-tell-if-your-tube-is-bad@oddiofyl Interested in your update after you fully burn in the Genelex GL KT77s in your QS amps. I'm recommending them to a friend for hi... | |
| Klipsch Heresy iv...Your experience. @mapman "... not fatiguing."A buddy of mine has the III and giddy about getting the IV. I've not heard it myself. Wondering if the difference is more than subtle. I've heard the new Tractrix® horn midrange and noting the Hersey IV has a titanium... | |
| ScanSpeak promotes list of DIY speakers using their drivers Scanspeak drivers are musical. I’ve used them in my custom speaker builds and recent subwoofer builds with rewarding success. Troels makes some nice stuff wtih Scanspeak, Seas, and SBAcoustics drivers too. His recent Ellipticor-4 build is fairly s... | |
| How to accurately gauge speaker sensitivity to match with tube amp? hilde45, Its seems folks are just wanting you to be aware some speakers may be better suited to your amps than others, and to try and avoid ones that are not. This past year during a test I listened to some 82db sensitivity electrostatic speakers... | |
| How to accurately gauge speaker sensitivity to match with tube amp? @clhs04Not to totally derail this thread but did @hilde45 ever mention what preamp he is using.? That’s a whole nother rabbit hole to go down in.-------------------------------------heheh, ah just having some fun here with ya, it’s all good. He’s ... | |
| How to accurately gauge speaker sensitivity to match with tube amp? @clhs04Legacy‘s are large cabinet big multi-driver speakers that demand a lot of current..despite what their persuasive specs regarding sensitivity may imply. if you were to do a generalized perusal online of Legacy speaker systems I would bet tha... | |
| Quicksilver V4 or 120 mono's with planars. @gnjtack @tooblue @youngstown1969 @oddiofyl Resurrecting an old QS/Planar thread, helping a friend with QS Mono 60s who’s trying various ribbon and maybe planars soon too. Any Quad or Magnepan 1.7 or others... -what "planar" speakers did you end u... | |
| Digital Coax, optical, or RCA for use with my Bluesound Node player? Analysis Plus "Digital Crystal" COAX 1.5M Continuous Cast Copper (solo crystal copper) braids, hollow oval design. Demo’d and owned various AQ, AP, Cardas in 1m and 1.5m and preferred AP Digital Crystal. Pricey, but this to a good DAC and wallah! ... | |
| Just auditioned Martin Logan ESL vs 60xt I’ve tested my Martin Logan Motion 40s from my HT setup on my audio separates including a 100wpc Cary tube amp, a Cary solid state amp, a 10wpc Triode tube amp, then QS monoblock tube amps, and a high powered Outlaw Audio amp, bi-amped. Not muddy ... | |
| Ever feel like a "low dollar" customer that your dealer doesn't think worth their time? Going downhill... too bad, snooze you lose. There is a local chain here in Northern CA that use to be one of "the" places to go 25 years ago. The owners i use to know well are no longer around, hiding in back warehouses somewhere replaced by 2-3 s... | |
| Quicksilver audio silver 88 mono amps @zardozmikeRecently helped a friend with an older Jolida integrated who was enamored with the sound of the upgraded QS monos. After some pushing and prodding by a few us and a local dealer buddy - removed his over-provisioned KT150 tubes (he mist... | |
| Quicksilver audio silver 88 mono amps @zardomike IMO, good KT88s paired with nice small signal/driver tubes for those amps. Not a big fan of the KT90s or KT120 tubes in a few different QS amps, could just be me. Others may hear differently. | |
| Psvane Audio ??? Service ?? Bummer, sorry to hear that. Easy to buy spare PSVANE tubes, not so easy to buy spare PSVANE amps, argh. I kinda wondered where those amps were from originally and kinda disappeared; and we know Grant Fidelity had some unplanned life-business cha... |