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| Raven Blackhawk LE... am I going to be disappointed? If it does not work out as hoped and you want to keep your speakers, trade-up. If you like Raven, the "Shadow MK" amplifier paired with a really good preamp w/two sets of pre-outs would get the job done! AND you get to keep the lovely sounding Sal... | |
| Raven Blackhawk LE... am I going to be disappointed? Do not change to KT150s without doing a bunch of research on this tube type. I thought, for my garage system , that the extra power of the KT120s was worth the slight loss of humanity. I have never used KT150s, but have heard a number of users as ... | |
| Raven Blackhawk LE... am I going to be disappointed? @b_limoSo you came back over to the dark side, good for you :) A friend in common shared the news about your incoming Raven. I was about to send you a note to say this, just saw your reply and was about to share thoughts like 1) it will sound very... | |
| Tubes for Cary V12 amps. "Sometimes you get what you pay for and personally I avoid power amps with lots of output tubes for just that reason. Also why I got away from 300B amps the retubing costs."@jond while I sometimes miss and look back to my former amps, your note is... | |
| Tubes for Cary V12 amps. Agree, and KT77s would be nice in a Cary V12 / V12R, particularly when the old stock Audio1 coupling caps are swapped out for better ones. The amp really responds well to this, Mundorf EVO Supreme Silver-Gold even better. | |
| Tubes for Cary V12 amps. ^^^ With TWELVE output tubes per v12 amplifier, and he has three amps to deal with, NOS tubes is not a realistic option buying thirty six tubes. OP, If you can find sets of the stock Rubys, those particular shuguang EL34-BSTR output tubes are very... | |
| Just auditioned Martin Logan ESL vs 60xt Demoing with lame power / source / amplification at BestBuy-Magnolia stores is extremely limited.Take the same speakers home and evaluate on a worthy setup and hear a different result. | |
| Tubes for Cary V12 amps. @whataboutbob1 I use to have a V12R and YES the EL34-BSTR tubes are going to sound the best in that amp, truly. They are/were made by Shuguang for Ruby and sounded really nice. Heard various things about them having trouble rebuilding the factory ... | |
| KT150s in a Preamp Design? Hey I'm interested, and more so if you actually try it and compare KT150s to 6SN7s in a preamp. I run four 6SN7s in my preamp and four KT150s in my mono amps. Have wondered who's actually tapped the real potential and ceiling limit of a KT150 tub... | |
| Any Thoughts On These? When Magnolia consolidated their independent stores and shoehorned them back into the corner of BestBuy stores, seems like they lost their mojo for 2-channel audio displays and demos. Focus kinda went back to home theater and hand held gadgets. N... | |
| Black ice Audio owners, pet peaves +1 @larryi Well said. | |
| Black ice Audio owners, pet peaves My buddy sure is enjoying his F22 from Black Ice Audio past four months.He is not a tube roller, he simply bought it, plugged it in and uses it for his 2ch audio and even uses it with his big TV with stereo speakers quite often. Added a nice DAC a... | |
| Your favorite OCC speaker cable AP OFC VS. OCC (Crystal)Comparing the Analysis Plus OFC (Copper Oval-In Micro) cable versus the next-level-up Analysis Plus OCC (Crystal), there is an audible difference for sure. I have both types and compare both periodically. Both are nice cabl... | |
| Any Thoughts On These? @high-amp I’d add "quality" amp first, then power (watts) comes second but still important. With 92 or 94db sensitivity speakers, I’ve heard 8-watt tube amps with big, quality, transformers make wonderful music. Excluding class-D, most of the real... | |
| Preamp tubes in power amps @jji666 Read the 2nd paragraph about Upscale and 7DJ8s in the Vk-3i preamp. Seems like staffers there might not be on the same level as uncle Kevvy. https://www.audioshark.org/balanced-audio-technology-bat-38/tube-noob-seeking-education-11051.ht... |