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| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? "We take turns meeting at each member’s home, allowing each member to host and present/share their music, food, wine/drinks and good company. Most of the members have various consumer-level listening stations: AV receivers, Bluetooth soundbars and... | |
| Eversolo A6/A8 I have a friend who loved Primephonic and briefly switched to Apple Classical but was frustrated by the lack of good streaming options. He has since switched to Qobuz and has no regrets. You have what is considered a very decent streamer. Rathe... | |
| Solid State Power Amps I rarely see folks in the US mention YBA gear, but years ago I sold it an audio shop and always felt very confident recommending it, especially with Focal speakers. We sold quite a few setups with that combination. It has a lively, sweet tube-like... | |
| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? Years ago I performed a series of music/spoken-word concerts with a local symphony orchestra. The conductor walked me through the music on a boom box. At the time I thought it odd that a musician wouldn’t have a nice stereo, but then I realized th... | |
| Summer Power Issues Ditto on the Furman. I use an M8X AR, which will handle 15 amps. Last summer my line voltage dropped as low as 113VAC, and my tube amps and tube preamp really suffered. The Furman keeps it at 118-120, and I have not felt it affected the sound. ... | |
| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? "Well, I guess it was good to get all those opinions off your chest. If only they had the least bit connection to what I actually said." I took your comment for what it appeared to be saying. It's certainly good to have some clarification. ;-) | |
| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? @rok2id As a classical music lover, I too would take issue with the notion that it's "just the same music played over and over by different ensembles." This is no more true of classical music than it is of any other genre. It's rather like say... | |
| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? I’m a big fan of historical recordings, both jazz and classical, so sound quality has always been a secondary consideration for me. That said, even I have my limits, which stop somewhere well short of Edison cylinders. ;-) But my musical life woul... | |
| Tube preamp topologies and music Most single-ended tube amplifiers have relatively high output impedance a) because only one output device is being used and b) because they usually don’t use feedback, which also contributes to higher output impedance and poorer damping factor. Yo... | |
| Watts! How many do we need? "I was using a 10 watt class A amp to drive a pair of Super Tablettes (86 db I think) in a 13x14 listening room with zero issues. So then I thought, "What the hell!" and put in my 2A3 integrated amp. Still no issues and the speakers sound great." ... | |
| Watts! How many do we need? "You don't need walls of drivers and the only jousting with 600wpc is financial/spouse approval." My point was that I have seen systems so expensive, so complicated and striving for so much power and scale that they become unmanageable for the ow... | |
| 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 ... |