decooney
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| Spatial X5 speakers @jaymark good to know. A great position to be in, at least the speakers are good to go awaiting whatever amp you have to throw at it. I'm following along with your progress now, while helping a remote friend looking at some form of efficient [br... | |
| Default standard for speaker "sensitivity" measurement listings? Anechoic? In-room? Other? It's my understanding fewer are anechoic than in-room measurements. And, when revisions are made in subsequent versions of a speaker, one needs to ask if they truly went back and retested both anechoic and in-room measurements again. Sensitivit... | |
| Spatial X5 speakers @jaymark by chance did you happen to see the post on AC about Don Sachs, tube amplification, and talk about 100+ hours of burn in on the X5s? Not just the woofer drivers, but AMTs will change too with time https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?top... | |
| Not manufactured any more. ADS L2030 holy grail speakers | |
| Not manufactured any more. Infinity QLS and RS-4.5 | |
| Not manufactured any more. Pioneer HPM 200 | |
| Not manufactured any more. Polk Audio SDA SRS Signature Reference System I will never forget the first time I heard these. | |
| Not manufactured any more. A few of the less seen versions pictured here, and a home project version a few years back. Where the Dr. Von Heil Air Motion Transformer (AMT) all started from here in Sacramento California. Fun thread, great memories digging these up. :) ESS AM... | |
| Selling off Tubes for Solid State, A Cooler Love Story? OR pick up a low cost second-hand Class-D or smaller SS A/B amp for 3 months out of the year. Keep the PL for cooler darker months when you are inside listening anyhow. Read up on summer amps. More than a few do this in order to keep their big ... | |
| Just installed a bluesound node 2i , quality not so good @pegazus ...Honestly one of cheap tube Bluetooth Dac from China sounded way better than this junk Name it. What cheap DAC from China sounded "way better"? | |
| Cary Audio SA 200.2 SE power amp (latest version) @dilatante do you have a different pair of working speakers and different speaker cables you can test with this amp? | |
| Would you sell for cash? Ask to meet at a bank with the teller handing cash to him to you on camera. If they balk at this, you have your answer. | |
| RCA interconnect recommendation @smaarch1 "...Then I switched the Zen cable over to the DAC (successfully this time). All I can say is Wow!. A vast improvement." There it is. For some, for better or worse, cables can/do make a difference :) | |
| Cary Audio SA 200.2 SE power amp (latest version) @dilatante do you have a reputable "local tech" who can go through the amp and identify the noise or possible transformer hum? Might be less shipping-damage risk and less cost vs shipping it back to Cary if you plan to fix it. I remember my SA200.... | |
| FM Tuners Sold off all my former McIntosh / Sansui tuners unable to keep them all. Kept one. Currently listening to my Magnum Dynalab MD-102 FM tuner. Enjoying it for the past 10yrs. Sometimes I get tired of streaming and just wanna hear some FM. @im... |