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| a 3 way design speaker with the ESS Heil type sound @fatdaddy2 Look into Piega Nice. Seems Piega has a sale going on too for their smaller units. And, speaking of paring smaller/faster drivers with their AMT, and running a sub separately, here it is. A link to the Piega USA site here, and a p... | |
| a 3 way design speaker with the ESS Heil type sound Plenty of DIY dual 6.5s and AMTs in 2.5-way configurations out there for a while now across forums Gryphon had these a few years back. Heard them at shows a few times. Nice. | |
| a 3 way design speaker with the ESS Heil type sound @arion Check out Arion Audio speakers... Certainly worthy of some links to pics. Wow, those are some serious AMTs! Very interesting open-baffle designs. Others coming in April 2025 eh’. Very Cool. https://arionaudio.com/speakers/ Way mor... | |
| Cary SLP 98 vs Benchmark LA4 To @billpete for the Cary SLP-98 it also depends on how old it is, and which version of factory upgrades it does or does not have. Some of the older version caps installed are quite different sounding from newer version 98s with totally different... | |
| 12au7 tube? @curiousjim My preamp uses 12au7’s and I’ve tried PSVANE and will never buy them again and would suggest than nobody should buy from them! Share more. While I have more vintage pairs of 12au7s than I care to recall - including RCAs, GE, Tung... | |
| a 3 way design speaker with the ESS Heil type sound @tomic601 so the MTM w mid bass drivers of 7” or so with a sub makes sense…just my .02$…. That configuration is darn close to my own custom built setup: Dual 8" Nomex mid-woofer/midrange --Peerless Tymphany version ESS AMT Great Heil -... | |
| a 3 way design speaker with the ESS Heil type sound @sputz Truly like bass. I must be a bass head ? But with details. This also has a lot to do with your amplifier. Not just the speakers. Also fast mains paired with really good subwoofer(s) for lower-end duties can be a good mix too. Imo, mi... | |
| a 3 way design speaker with the ESS Heil type sound @larryi Cinnamon Audio offers a three way with the Heil tweeter, also in open baffle configuration.. Post by @larryi above worthy of a few pictures. Some of these are 97db closer to what the OP was looking for. 10ohm tube amp friendly too. ... | |
| 12au7 tube? @audiojan Thanks everyone. I have a bunch of tubes incoming. Radiotechnique, Genalex Gold Lion, Brimar, Amperex. That's the way to do it. Do some nice pair comparisons, select a few vintage you like, and a few new/re-issue tubes to play when y... | |
| a 3 way design speaker with the ESS Heil type sound Hey @sputz If you have the funds and don’t care about Di-Pole AMTs, one of the best AMT implementations of the AMTs I heard at a show once, >> Gryphon <<. The lower models like the Pantheon 3-ways are are not as efficient, Gryphon Tr... | |
| a 3 way design speaker with the ESS Heil type sound @sputz ...ESS 3 ways with HEIL.. AMT3s are di-pole, the air motion transformer electrostatic diaphragm sound you are appreciating, the design, and driver configuration is not easily replicated today. I completely designed my own version ground ... | |
| 12au7 tube? Tried 22 different pairs of vintage 12au7s, and 6 pairs of new re-issues. Vintage best for me, 1965 Blackburn Plant Mullards if you like vintage. Stored now. New, PSVANEs are lasting longer than any of my former Gold Lyons. Get them curve trace... | |
| A little puzzled by my newly acquired Yamaha A-S801 I've read these comments before on the 801, then people moving up the stack to 2200, or even the venerable AS3200 for the newer designs. A friend is trying the new R-N2000A with tone controls and room correction, and he's a diehard tube amp guy. ... | |
| Best Used Tube Based Preamp $2k Or Under? @hightfall my friend had one for a year. Re-Sold it. He just wanted to try it for fun. No real "signature" that he commented about really - was a big collector of tube preamps and has owned and owns several of Dennis Had's Inspire Linestage units,... | |
| Best Used Tube Based Preamp $2k Or Under? Might as well toss Holger's preamps in the ring. Tone controls anyone? Aretha - 6SL7 https://www.erhard-audio.com/Aretha_MKII.html Europa - 6922/E88CC https://www.erhard-audio.com/Europa.html |