decooney
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| If Nordost and AQ Speaker cables had a baby? @audiojan "...with the "flesh and bones" of Cardas Clear Beyond. " Never heard that one before. Good description. I’ve tried to think of how to describe it beyond something like added "weight and vibrance" or "full bodied and textured", etc.... | |
| Cable differences -- power, interconnect, digital, and in what order? @audphile1 is the power cable on RG of equal or better quality than the power cables on your source and preamp? Interesting question. Similar quality, not one too much greater than the other. This is another reason I may step up and try a poten... | |
| Cable differences -- power, interconnect, digital, and in what order? @audphile1 ...And to add to the power cord conversation…not all power cords work equally well on all components. audiphile1, If you had to pick using a higher end 1.5M power cord (from a very established cable manufacturer), for use between ... | |
| Cable differences -- power, interconnect, digital, and in what order? For me it was not until the majority of my system was up to par THEN I started hearing real differences between different levels of quality interconnect and speaker cables. My ranking is closer to @audphile1, but swapping 3 & 4. | |
| Forté 1A power amplifier.... still good? @audiofilo123 The upgrade costs depends on who does the work and how far you have to ship depending on where you are sending from, est $1200-1500, but don’t hold me to that. I had a few other small tweaks on min to improve signal path. Since you h... | |
| Forté 1A power amplifier.... still good? Yes. Forte 3 / 1A. Recently upgraded mine. Jon at VAR is local, and we upgraded the main caps to larger ones, new bridge rectifiers, eliminated some spades with direct solder, and installed Cardas speaker binding posts, converted to full Class-A... | |
| Siemens EL 34 @jjss49 "but it is not as warm and rich sounding" Yup, exactly. That particular sound...I hear ya. Its something I’d like to rotate back in once in a while, maybe with some smaller monos that i dont turn up so much, just for low level listen... | |
| Siemens EL 34 @pehare KT Monos w KT170s is what I’ve been running for the last 5 months and I’m loving the match. One thing I can say is that you must experiment w bias level. It seems that the KT150s are more forgiving on bias setting. Surprisingly to me, the... | |
| Siemens EL 34 @pdreher I have a pair of Quicksilver KT Mono's with KT-150's on order... so I'm hoping they will scratch my itch and quell any regrets I may have in selling the RM9 MK2. Thanks for making the correlation and for sharing this update. For one, t... | |
| Siemens EL 34 @jjss49 "...where i did most of my el34 based listening back in the late 80’s, with early big proacs, spendors, quads, maggie mg iii-a’s". While I had to move on to different amps/ouput tubes for my main custom speakers 93db/6ohm, aside from t... | |
| Cable upgrade @tonydec good work giving yourself and your speakers time to settle in since new. Also, taking the time to test out different positions, toe-in vs toe-out too helps of course. I noticed a while back you had been using AQ King Cobra ICs and such. A... | |
| Question about wpc on tube amps @timintexas as you've already concluded, in your case - I'd second the notion of buying a really good tube preamplifier and pairing it up with your Bryston instead. | |
| millercarbon If you click on the "Reviews" tab at the top of this site, the last update shown is 11/16/22. Hope MC is okay - maybe visiting some other forums or something. | |
| Best amp pairing for Focal Kanta 1s @niko79 "But what in hi fi audio is? :D" Perhaps my suggestion was that some lateral moves can be frustrating to spend good money on something with little to no improvement for the sake of "making a change". Perhaps I made a few curious lateral... | |
| Best amp pairing for Focal Kanta 1s @niko79 imo I’d probably stick with the BlueHeaven cables you have now unless you were to jump past the Iridium up to something like the 4-wire Cygnus with Cardas. Even between Parsec and Cygnus, a different result. And between Cygnus and Clear Re... |