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| Watts! How many do we need? The Sanders paper is very interesting. But one should remember a couple of things: 1) He's talking about ESL speakers in the main; 2) I think he exaggerates the frequency and extent of clipping in an appropriately matched system. I would ventu... | |
| Watts! How many do we need? "is an unltralinear watt identical to a triode watt? That’s a serious question, I am not intending to be sarcastic." Basically, yes. But ultralinear operation has plusses and minuses. and a lot of those depend on the quality of the output transfo... | |
| Tube preamp topologies and music If you have the Dennis Had equipment, why not hook it up and try it? You’ll know quick enough if it works for you or not. | |
| Tube preamp topologies and music If you're saying you have Heresy 4's, you have a lot of options. The Airtight amps would be a good bet. Personally I would choose the ATM1. You don't need more power than that, and IMO the EL34 is a very sweet tube. Really, 15-30 wpc would be ... | |
| Tube preamp topologies and music In all fairness, I thought jasonbourne71's comments were pretty on point overall, and I should have made that clear in my own comment above. | |
| Tube preamp topologies and music First of all, I disagree with some of the comments above. A well-contructed single-ended amp can rock pretty hard with the right speakers. But the key thing for you is, what kind of speakers do you have? That's going to determine the amount of ... | |
| The Horror "I think my Dennis Had SEP amp sounds better than any tube amp I've heard anywhere...cost about 1100 bucks (slightly used) back in 2017." A friend of mine bought one of those around the same time. It's lovely. I think Had has a real gift for t... | |
| So, a reviewer just said something I need to talk about. _dalek_ wrote: 'So much is written about recreating the experience of having the music performers standing in front of you in your listening room." Yes, but I think it's important to distinguish between "illusion" and "reality." It would take a... | |
| So, a reviewer just said something I need to talk about. I very much judge a system by how well you get a sense of the performer as a three-dimensional person, as well as how realistically the actual recording is conveyed. Whether it's Horowitz in Carnegie Hall, Coleman Hawkins standing at a ribbon mic... | |
| The Horror This is very sad to hear. Believe it or not, I’m always happy to get home to my modest system--an ancient pair of ProAc Response 2’s, my homebrew Williamson tube amps, my homebrew Aikido 6SN7 preamp and my Doge 7 DAC. It doesn’t bring the NY Philh... | |
| Need recommendations on 15ft speaker cables I have a friend, a former concert pianist, who has one of the best systems I've ever heard. He has some pricey interconnects and even a power cable or two, but I asked him once what speaker cable he was using, it looked sort of rugged. He said, ... | |
| USB DAC cable over 15ft - Solutions? I'm with the streamer camp. Time to cut that cable! Plus, get your PC out of the chain. You'll be glad you did. Even a Raspberry Pi 4 with a little free audio OS would be better than the PC. I just sent one a friend to solve the same issue yo... | |
| Vacuum Tube preamp with my KRELL KAV 250a, a no no......WHY? "The cap failure you experienced might have been caused by not speccing the cap right. If its connected to a plate circuit, it must be rated at a value 15% or so above the no-load DC Voltage of the power supply in the preamp! If not, it can short ... | |
| Vacuum Tube preamp with my KRELL KAV 250a, a no no......WHY? There was a thread in another forum recently wherein a fellow was using a highly-regarded tube preamp with a very sensitive SS power amp. The amp kept going into shutdown, and after much discussion with the preamp's designer, it was determined th... | |
| Jazz for aficionados "I’ll Remember April" by the Roger Ram Trio. "Roger Ram" is "Ram" Ramirez, who wrote "Lover Man." A solid jazz pianist in the Ahmad Jamal tradition. This is an RCA "Living Stereo" album that is only available for streaming from Qobuz, Amazon, Spot... |