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| Small Bedroom Tube Amp eziggy Iook at the Q Acoustics speakers..Fairly easy to drive,inexpensive & KILLER reviews! | |
| When it sounds like a tube amp needs rejuvenating, Power & output tubes going bad tend to snap crackle & pop,literally... Small signal tubes going bad are sneaky,usually only displaying lack of volume until going dark...JME,YMMV... PS:Figure around 5000 hours for small signal & between... | |
| Small Bedroom Tube Amp Jolida,something like the Glass FX Tube Integrated or the small Hybrid,forget the model... If you want a real investment piece that will last a lifetime & can scale up to a $10,000.00 speaker look at the Quad VA-One... | |
| Audioquest Night Owl Headphones I have the Pangea extension on my HiFiMan HE400i driven by tubes & it sounds fantastic... | |
| Speakers that sound like Marshall speakers First you can not get the true Marshall experience without TUBES!!! Have a look sometime at Peter Framptons set up,HUGE stacks of Marshall driven by Mesa Boogie & Orange amps last I checked... Best Marshall sound I've had in my home was EL34 t... | |
| Tube amp/preamp options for Tekton Enzo XL's (Budget Quad VA-One!!! NEVER had better sound in my home...Got mine from Underwood Wally,a seller here.. | |
| What are you streaming tonight? The ultimate tropical vacation station via Pandora+..Jimmy Buffett,Bob & Ziggy Marley,Cliff,Tosh,The Mermen,The Blue Hawaiians,Blue Stingrays... | |
| Is it my amp or pre-amp ? So if you connect amp directly to CDP all good,add Pre/Pro to the mix & amp(?)starts clicking & stops producing sound?It has to be the Preamp,which the CDP is acting as when direct coupled..Maybe an output stage going bad... | |
| Tried tubes and LOVED it, now what? nasaman I forgot about what is involved in biasing that amp...Start rolling with the small signal tubes,they do not affect bias voltage... | |
| soundstage location~speaker plane; speaker design or placement? No idea how they do that voodoo they do do but no doubt it’s a combination of all 3(design,room & placement)... | |
| Tried tubes and LOVED it, now what? First off congrats on finding the light......I'm not a fan of KT88's,great bass but the mids are no where near as lit up as EL34...You could:Consolidate all speakers to 1 pair of Hi Eff.& go 300B SET or something S.E.Triode Strapped or 300B Pu... | |
| Mid-fi integrated tube amp advice Saves a tiny bit of tube life but IMO gives up tone as the tubes aren't operating in their sweet spot...Probably like that from the factory,I don't think either of them run them in & bias them..By the way I was cleaning out storage & found... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? 1976!OMG I was 16,1 year away from the Army,living in a beat up old Dodge van & Diving the coast of Cali from La Jolla to Mendacino Co...Oh man all you had to do for fresh Black Sea Bass & Abalone was pick a spot,pull over & hit the wa... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Clearing out some cobwebs via Bluetooth from my FiiO X1 Gen.II. with Whitesnake,Y&T,UFO,Ronnie James Dio.... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Pandora + Susanna Vega station.Vega,Tracy Chapman,Gentle Waves,Edie Brickell(another great memory in my life..I worked for 2 years for her Accountant/Managers brother..Down to earth & sweet as her voice she was)... |