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| 5AR4/GZ34 Rectifier Tubes Did some more listening last night with the Create 5AR4 and Sophia Electric 6SN7's in the lineup. Really spectacular combo in my system. I am getting a very lucid, detailed and musically involving sound. The Create provides exceptional inner detai... | |
| 5AR4/GZ34 Rectifier Tubes Mofi--I'll be interested in your take. I could see how people could come to different conclusions with these two tubes depending upon their listening preferences and system makeup. You really can't go wrong with either. What's nice is that the Cre... | |
| 5AR4/GZ34 Rectifier Tubes OK Guys:Sorry this has taken so long but summer vacation and then a pretty thorough testing process has left me with these conclusions:I did a direct comparison of the following 5AR4's: My vintage Mullard (Blackburn), Create/Synergy and the stock ... | |
| Cables for Harbeth-Luxman match? Meiwan: I KNOW what you mean, I just disagree. Cables matter, just not nearly as much as people claim and this is particularly true when fronting a pair of Harbeth's. Will Au24's sound different than Cardas or Kubala--sure (I ran Au24's with my C7... | |
| Choral Music Suggestions Super guys--keep them coming. I'm headed to Princeton Record Exchange next month and will bring your suggestions! | |
| Unusual TAS bomb How many of you remember when TAS was small, put original artwork on the cover, contained long form pieces on music, culture, audio engineering and the pursuit of high fidelity sound and contained a very low ratio of ads to enlightened text? They ... | |
| Cables for Harbeth-Luxman match? "but you can certainly change the tonal balance dramatically with speaker cables"I disagree with this statement as a general rule and particularly so with respect to the Harbeth line. Unless you talking about connecting up with lamp cord any array... | |
| Where did you go after Harbeth? I don't think an SET amp will properly drive your SHL5's. I found that my C7's liked power and sounded best with at least a solid 100 wpc amplifier. Though I never tried a SET or low power tube amp I have doubts about this pairing given my experie... | |
| Setting Azimuth I haven't used it but I would recommend looking into the Soundsmith "Counter Intuitive" which allows precise adjustment of azimuth AND tracking force. They are currently backordered but I'm going to pick one up when available. Meanwhile, I've had ... | |
| Cables for Harbeth-Luxman match? In my experience the C7's are not particularly sensitive to speaker cables. I would look at decent, low cost cables that are easy to work with and explore spending the difference on system improvements further up the signal chain. It is very hard ... | |
| Choral Music Suggestions Excellent! Thanks everyone. I'm generating a list and will keep tracking the thread and add as new suggestions are made. I really appreciate your collective contributions. | |
| 5AR4/GZ34 Rectifier Tubes Create/Synergy 5AR4 just shipped so it will be a few weeks before I will be able to comment on the performance compared with the Mullard. I'll keep you posted on progress. | |
| Where did you go after Harbeth? Sebastien:That is a logical conclusion and SHOULD be correct given the sheer musicality of every Harbeth design BUT I do see quite a few pairs for sale here on the A'gon so some folks must be moving on to other brands (though some may be moving up... | |
| Where did you go after Harbeth? Daedalus are high sensitivity designs (i.e. 97db) and a number of owners are using them with low power SET amplification. Just so you know... | |
| Where did you go after Harbeth? Daedalus DA-1.1's. I loved my Compact 7's and spent two years looking for a speaker that was as true and natural in the midrange and non-fatiguing as the Harbeths but had a bigger, more dynamic and "quicker" sound. Daedalus did that like no other ... |