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| What is the best 2A3 SET Amplifier? Yes, you are absolutely right. The good old US did created the 2A3/300B and even the SET amp but those are accient history........ But they also the first one to abandon it.........Back in the 1920 or so, all those hard-working Bell Lab engineers/... | |
| What is the best 2A3 SET Amplifier? For your hi-end Avantgarde 2.1, you should use the best 2A3 SET amp that money can buy.Forget about the Cary, Wavelength or any SET amp that are made in USA(they are beginner in SET amp design!) - poor design, very low quality parts that including... | |
| What about the Teres Turntable? Good for you and welcome back to analog.As I see it, there is no future in the ultra hi-end audio for anything digital. With a high quality turntable, tonearm, cartridge combo, it just blown any digital crap away from this planet! | |
| What are the benefits of a SET amp? The major benefit of a SET amp is its ability to show what the regular tube amp and ss amp are missing in music reproduction. Of the 3 types of amps, even though the SET amp has the worst performance in test measurement but it sounds closest to th... | |
| What are your thoughts of the Tower design of amps It is all marketing gimmick. The tower design is inherently unstable and just doesn't make sense. It will be prone to be effect by the impact of a hugh amount acoustic energy during high dB musical presentation. Based on my observation, if the man... | |
| SS amps. Why so much power? Nearly all the speakers manufacturers put cheap drivers with ceramic magnets into all their hi to low end speakers. Also the sealed box speaker design also a major contributing factor in lowering the over-all efficiency of the speakers. As audioph... | |
| SS amps. Why so much power? "Strain"........."Congestion"....."compression"...."Distortion".....and "Confusion"...... are what the so-called mainstream hi-end is all about........ Very, very sad........... The major cause of this is inefficient speakers............ | |
| What is the best DB level to In a good/proper balance system(with proper room treatment) using high listening level will not cause any listening fatigue. Listening fatigue are caused by the following:1. Poorly design audio equipments2. Use of transistor equipments3. Poorly de... | |
| Why SACD,DVD-A are already DEAD I think most of us are going to play golf...........Now you are the only consumer left..................and for sure SACD will die........ | |
| Why SACD,DVD-A are already DEAD As we already know, the the regular CD format is only about 20 years old(roughly). Then came the so-called SACD. How long will SACD last? From what going on in the digital field(it is basically computer technology), it might be already outdated si... | |
| After leaving my system on for 3 days... There are a lot of variables that can affect the sound quality of your system. Stacking of equipments on top of other component do affect sound quality(mechanical or electrical interference). The most noticable is that the quality of the electrici... | |
| Mark Levinson's Guide to Better Sex Does the book contains a chapter regarding using EL34, 6550 or even the giant 211 triode tube as sex toy..............? I hope this is no the major reason that he went into tube amp! | |
| Walking that fine line: What would you do ? The goal of hi-end audio is to recreate live music at home. Can you hear all these craps in real life? I don't think so. The word "reference" is misuse. There is only one reference, it is the original live music.The "reference" that you refer is w... | |
| Transistor pre & power amps. Are they any good? You people must be into transistor equipments only. Let me make this thread more interesting by asking like........... Tube pre & power amp. Are they any good? Let see your response....... | |
| I've been unfaithful with an SET amp. Low power SET amps are mean to use with very efficient speakers. Pair it with the wrong kind of speakers will lost all its "annoying" magic. Be open-minded people........... |