decooney
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| My experience with the First Watt F7 "without sounding forced" was an added phrase to describe musical flow that a friend used when he was describing the sound of his new speakers paired with an amp we were reviewing in common. Once I heard my amp with his speakers all the sudden "m... | |
| My experience with the First Watt F7 @roxy54 thank you for sharing your experience. You may have saved me at least one more buy/try/resale situation. Coming from various mosfet ss amps over decades and moving over to all-tube many years ago, I wondered if I had missed out on the late... | |
| Cables recommendation @el_it I think the thought was more related to taking your time, maybe trying a few cables on demo before spending up too much unnecessarily. While I'm I'm a cable nut and tried far too many different cables myself - - many of my 50+ year in-audi... | |
| Cables recommendation +1 to what @mesch said. Many start like this with cables along with their first pair of speakers and sources - - aligning their cable spend without going overboard. However if you suspect that you will upgrade speakers or upgrade core components ... | |
| Cables recommendation @mazian If you don’t have problems with ethical issues try the Chinese clones of Nordost, Cardas, XLO etc. Amazingly good at ridiculously low prices. Good grief. Have you seen any of the photos of the inside of these total junk pretend cable... | |
| Fritz vs CSS vs Ryan @jackd by chance were you able to compare the new Rev7 SE speaker with the ScanSpeak Illuminator Ring Radiator tweeter to the other Satori BE tweeter version speaker? While I've never tried Fritz speakers, I've followed him through @hilde45 's ... | |
| Mundorf Supreme Vs. Supreme SIO and SGO? It depends on what you are installing the caps in to as to what is the better cap version to use, as tbd. I landed on oilers in my source and non-oilers in my amplification. I'll likely replace the copper-oil caps in my preamp with non-oiler Mund... | |
| Eminent Technology 8b Speakers - Amp/wattage Recommendations @jwr159 I've heard your 8bs and the smaller LFT-16s on QS amps more than ten times in a slightly larger room than yours. Always a treat. Also, heard the smaller 16s with my same Mono 120s with KT150s too, very nice. The new version monos should ... | |
| Is there a strategy in preamp tube placement? re: " The Full Music seems reasonably priced, might have to experiment." To @coachpoconnor, I went with them long before the Linlai came out, and was tired of chasing quality matched pairs and quads of vintage 6SN7s any more. A SET/Triode obse... | |
| This sounds suspicious... The ad text changed some and the other ad by the same seller still shows no local pickup, and was "gifted to him", so who knows... | |
| Is there a strategy in preamp tube placement? @pindac "The reports being made on these Tubes are generally good and have got my attention". For sure. After trying various matched pairs and matched quads of vintage over a decade, along with several loaners from friends, now mothballing the... | |
| This sounds suspicious... Heavy units and the ad reads "no local pickup". Yeah right. | |
| Is there a strategy in preamp tube placement? @coachpoconnor yes, in my SLP-98 and sparing you my vintage 6SN7 tube trials with RCA and Sylvania Black Plates I own and tried, I’ve been experimenting again with newer tubes some. TJ Full Music 6SN7s in the all four spots (most transparent, ... | |
| Eminent Technology 8b Speakers - Amp/wattage Recommendations @jwr159 apologize if I misunderstood, originally I thought you planned to bi-amp the LFT8B speakers alone, like this on the rear. Using the QSC amp with separate subs should give you plenty. This is similar to how I run my setup, with custom dual ... | |
| Eminent Technology 8b Speakers - Amp/wattage Recommendations @jwr159 for tube amps, you are on the right track with the M120s, if you can find them. I run a Cary SLP-98 as @russ69 mentioned, btw. If you bi-amp with say a capable tube amp for the upper section (which sounds glorious on those speakers btw) an... |