decooney
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| Good old days @ebm Pack it in ASAP. Reminder to my future self - when I get to a point of four word unhelpful forum replies, this will be my signal to stop monitoring this site and bail out for sure. 😆 | |
| Good old days @rvpiano ...relocating myself in the listening space, so that imaging is not a factor, may help considerably. It’s interesting you mention this. A tube amp buddy who geeked out for decades on several different designs of tube amps and large... | |
| Good old days @rvpiano ..I got my musical inspiration and love of classical music as a child listening to radio stations in New York. I always endeavor to recover that feeling. Expressing myself through this forum has been helpful to me in diagnosing the pitfa... | |
| I noticed brightness/harshness more than usual from my system a couple months back. @oharek Try to figure out if it’s coming out of one speaker or both. Think back the past few months, have you moved or changed any cable, any components, anything lately? I always go back to checking all connections 1st. I’ve seen this occur wit... | |
| Describe the "new HiFi sound"? @dave_b Watch Steve Guttenberg’s YT video “Are audiophiles BS ing themselves about sound? This sums it up for me! SG: "recalibrate your expectations to what’s really going down", unquote. Talking about old sound vs. new sound, ...has anyo... | |
| Describe the "new HiFi sound"? @mrdecibel @decooney I apologize to you. You stated in your post, " relative to amps and speakers ", and I took it somewhere else. My best ! MrD. No apology necessary, no limits here ...this merely highlights there are many different factors... | |
| Describe the "new HiFi sound"? re: "tube microphones", there is a well known amplifier manufacturer in the USA, who's last designer left the company to go form his own company designing and building new tube microphones after his hobby turned in to a business. Still a bit under... | |
| Describe the "new HiFi sound"? @jjss49 ... perfect synopsis of this is to compare the old school spendor classic 100/sp100/r2 sound vs their modern sound d9 or d7 series ..."am sure he will correct me if i am wrong on this" Nope, not wrong at all, no correction necess... | |
| Describe the "new HiFi sound"? In my case, when I slowly migrated through 70s-90s velvety sounding mosfet solid state amplifiers I then moved towards EL34 / KT88 ultralinear and other triode tube amps still holding some of that same type of familiar golden era velvety sound. Sp... | |
| New speakers or new tubes @fsgattuso ..."However, maybe due to the lower efficiency of the Thiels, they don’t sound great in triode mode. When the sound mellows out as it does in that mode it is now too flat and lifeless," Do you notice it’s quite a bit worse at lowe... | |
| New speakers or new tubes @tablejockey Switching the stock EL34’s to KT88’s, KT120 or KT150 will result in more bass. The trade off is losing the EL34 midrange. KT77 will retain the EL34 mids with increased bass, not as pronounced, but you may find it to be a good com... | |
| Harbeth 40.3's. Should I buy them? @jjss49 that is super helpful intel. Knowing what amps were used in designs and optimized to operate with certain speakers, sure can save people a lot of time. Was not aware of the design origin of the 6550 amp / Proac combo. Interesting. | |
| Are you interested in the new generation of "old school" design loudspeakers? Interesting how any wide front baffle 3-way is now considered by some as "old school". Sounds like old is new again. | |
| Harbeth 40.3's. Should I buy them? @bassdude ...As I noted before, mine didn’t sound great, until I got the H590 to drive them properly. Now they do! +1 what @avanti1960 said too. Harbeth, Spatial, Legacy, Quad 57s - all can sound good when paired up with robust amplifica... | |
| Harbeth 40.3's. Should I buy them? Regarding the X3's, I shouldn't be running subs according to the manufacturer of my integrated. Start with speakers, then the amplifier. If this is the truly the case according to your amp manufacturer, imo the amplifier is a limiting factor - ... |