decooney
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| If anyone is still looking for a SLP-98 Nice easy find @billpete and this is good news, happy for you. Okay, let that baby bake in for a week with the supplied tubes and maybe turning it on/off a few times cycling the tubes hot cold a few times. Two of my own Cary amps and preamps had t... | |
| If anyone is still looking for a SLP-98 @billpete do you think you'll just return it -or- possibly asking the seller to take it to a local tech to figure out where the power stops at the PS or tracing through inside the preamp with a volt meter etc - Was it flopping around in the box ... | |
| Upscale Audio is up front with customers I've purchased from uncle Kevy and so have a few friends of my own. He's been in it for the long game for a long time and knows you're not going to pull the wool over on anyone and they simply want to sell people good products. Whether you like t... | |
| New Magico Speaker Break-in Question NEW Speakers and their initial stiff driver rubber or foam surrounds will loosen up, the capacitors inside all settle in with some good play time on them. Pretty standard for new stuff. Used stuff, no need to wonder or worry just play it and enjoy... | |
| Looking for advise regarding Rogue M180’s I've got vintage and NOS tubes from all of these same people sitting in boxes my cabinets. Priors from AZ, some of Brent's very best curve-tracer triode matched triodes too. Each has its own character, and depends on the rest of the system. Wh... | |
| New Magico Speaker Break-in Question "@skinzy Interesting you found they lacked bass. I do not experience that. ". Yep. I wonder. Another symptom of those pesky Mundorf caps in the speakers. Long Long break-in. I did not get the more natural tone, warmth, depth of bass out ... | |
| New Magico Speaker Break-in Question To @jmeyers - really good speakers, capable amps, all seems in place. I’m very interested how this turns out after the long burn-in cycle is done. Both @hilde45 compared notes some a few years back, and I have run into this whole "be" tweeter ma... | |
| Sold Sold Sold Buyer: "I’m on vacation for awhile, I’ll see what’s happening when I get back." Uncommitted. No deposit, No payment. The seller owes you nothing. Doh, Sold! | |
| Looking for advise regarding Rogue M180’s @buellrider97 Hi Mike, you might ask if they ran them in for 2-3 days already before shipping out as some do. You might let them play for at least the first week [or two or three] before changing any tubes, let the caps [if new] settle in, and kee... | |
| New Magico Speaker Break-in Question @jmeyers decooney Many thanks for your thoughtful response. My A5s are powered by McIntosh MC611s. These are mono amplifiers that output 600 watts are 8, 4, and 2 ohms. Consequently, I don’t think that my amplification is the cause of my near-ter... | |
| New Magico Speaker Break-in Question To @jmeyers - What amplifier are you running and can it handle down into 2-ohm loads? ------------------------ How about dips into 2.6 ohms, more specifically. Your other speakers were 6 ohms. These are 4 ohms nominal, and dip down if you... | |
| Some people actively participate but rarely if ever start a thread. Some are happy enough with their system(s) as-is, no longer searching or less so, yet don't mind trying to help others when they can, is another reason perhaps. | |
| The Music Room - Boulder Colorado @larsa39 ...Two days prior to this, on Dec 18, I had received an email from them saying "Currently, we are experiencing a higher than normal volume of incoming items, I got the run-around from them until Dec 30, when I finally got an answer. It ... | |
| Used tube preamps, Cary, AR, Aesthetix, Wells...........or? To @billpete not sure if I mentioned it, a colleague owned a Red 98 F1, it still had the original caps in it as upgraded. He tried it for a while with the Cary V12R amp I sold to him. He had been comparing it to his $17k Conrad Johnson preamp fro... | |
| How many times can u visit a hifi store before it annoys the store if u plan on a purchase If you are there to genuinely look and learn, with an intention to buy something some day, somewhere, just let them know. Most dealers are understanding. However, if you are not serious about buying right now, and just looking, they’ll appreciate... |