decooney
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| Looking for high power warming sounding tube amps @smodtactical Are the quick silver amps more fast and neutral and linear? Or more romantic, bloomy and warm ? It depends on which output tubes you want to run and size of amps/transformers. The older version amps have changed some if you are lo... | |
| AudioQuest vs Cardas XLR @lollipopguild "I’ve actually found a set of Golden Cross XLR second-hand.." I was a GC diehard for a few decades, probably the absolute most lush cable Cardas ever sold. That is the other end of the spectrum. Later came Clear lines. GC was als... | |
| AudioQuest vs Cardas XLR @lollipopguild any change with more time? I find the Cygnus to be a little more revealing than my older series Cardas or other pairs of Clear Reflection (hybrid of old/new designs). With Cygnus, fyi, my source, preamp, and amps have to be full... | |
| Parasound to Pass Upgrade @taylorro what are you missing with the JC-1s that you believe could be better solved for you with the Pass X260.8s or PS Audio BHK amps? I did own one of the smaller plus+ amps from Parasound for a while, but not the original JC-1s. PTA reviewer... | |
| Looking for high power warming sounding tube amps @charles1dad So again, what is the individual listener trying to obtain/achieve? Exactly. Your post about the "snap" got me thinking about this more. I guess some like that unnatural ultra-fast snap of snare or kick drums or fast ping of a p... | |
| Looking for high power warming sounding tube amps re: X350 @charles1dad I do believe that the higher damping factor (DF) is appealing and its effect on bass is desirable for many. In my experience it adds a “tightness “ to bass frequencies that I just do not hear when listening to actual live a... | |
| Looking for high power warming sounding tube amps My Quicksilver Mono 120s with KT120s (midrange) or KT150s (linear/transparency) fit the bill for the same reasons you are looking for. 100wpc. I also have a Soderberg (recently) modded and upgraded Pass/Forte' now true Class-A 50wpc just to give ... | |
| Poll: What's your KT150 bias set to per tube (ma?) Update: Posted this in 2021. Now in mid 2023, recently digging a little deeper into this, inside my amps, determined my two mono amps have a plate voltage of 600v per tube. This allowed me to calculate plate dissipation %. I had been running the ... | |
| Audio Research filing for bankruptcy? @cleeds thanks for the updates, correction, and details. It will be interesting to see if there is a way for some entity to step up and help carry this forward and not let ARC products get lost. My only interest here is simply seeing American ma... | |
| Audio Research filing for bankruptcy? @jbl-4345 I heard mcintosh bought audio research Let's hope this is true. Would give Mc an upper hand owning both, new options, when you see posts of Mc vs. ARC dating way way back, c/b great for their fans and consumers. Please sure more if... | |
| Omega speakers -- mostly sold out, all the time? "@zarf Later he gave excellent suggestions for amplification." Can you share more? A friend and tried his omega’s with three different Inspire amps. Kept the amps and resold his Omegas. What did Louis recommend to you otherwise...more power... | |
| the big one: how do you choose speakers? By what features, data? Natural unforced sound. | |
| Audio Research in Receivership. @atmasphere I think you are right about the KT150. + @daveyf + @fsonicsmith1 Yes, I have been tracking both KT150s and KT120s past 3 years, closely. Picked up two spare quad sets in small availability windows that came and went again. My... | |
| Revisiting Chinese Knockoff Cables Are there non-knockoff (genuine) CN cables anyone likes better for the same price? What's puzzling some times is why most everything investigated or praised is some kind of "knockoff" cable. How about genuinely good well built cables from China ... | |
| Forte 4A vs. Belles 350A vs. Belles 350A Reference @falconquest if you are looking at the Forte’ Audio amps, its helpful to decide a few things up front. Do you want the true Class-A 50w version for pure audio bliss at the cost of some added heat, (voltage down, bias up!) or do you want/need the h... |