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| 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... | |
| Quicksilver audio silver 88 mono amps I replaced my high-end Cary tube amps with QS Mono 120s with KT150 tubes. I like 88s too in some ways, shared DNA which led to Mono 120 design of course. At first, I thought these Mono 120s were a slight downgrade for me, even using my better Cary... | |
| Psvane Audio ??? Service ?? @autospecHey Will, maybe try GF psvanetube dot com in Canada if you’ve not tried reaching out directly overseas already. They are a North America distributor of tubes that use to deal with amps as you probably know - but they might provide a first... | |
| Quicksilver audio silver 88 mono amps @fsonicsmith ...has quite a fan base if not a minor cult following. +1. True on both counts. :), and they are gone, sold! The reason the silvers command a higher price is the chassis, plugs and inputs on the back with power on the front. Same as M... | |
| I'm here for the enthusiasts, not the snobbery @barts.."cars, bikes and audio go together because it's a pursuit that never ends."Yep, all three, same here. Building, customizing, or using, rotate as necessary. :) | |
| Are current audio cable designs superior to 1980s designs? @mahlman..."Seriuosly now copper is copper ...Respectfully disagree, particularly when comparing low grade grainy copper to higher grade purity OFC or smooth OCC copper within interconnects and speaker cables. On a revealing audio system it expos... | |
| Are current audio cable designs superior to 1980s designs? Older AQ cables from the later 1980s mostly tended to lobb thick generic copper strands together thus blurring the results, IMO. Today in some of the better AQ lines, they do source nice copper from a well known provider and design changes with ad... | |
| Where do you go after a BlueSound Node 2i? @azbrdI use a Node 2 and as suggested multiple times in this thread connect it to an external higher end dac, in my case a Schiit YGGDRASIL. What ever DAC you chose to go with make sure its upgrade-able.I wonder if some folks do not understand dig... |