gareents
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| Seeking a Tube preamplifier All good suggestions so far. Only stellar preamp left out is Lamm LL2.1 Deluxe. All tube including rectifier. | |
| Western Electric 300B Tube Problems The repair consisted of replacing resistors and capacitors in both channels since the repair tech could not find the exact replacement brand but wanted to keep the two channels equal in sound quality. Also, the tech also replaced all off the coupl... | |
| Help me build up a jazz album collection. Can you suggest a must have album? Two sides of jazz, east coast and west coast. Two different sounds. Many have recommended great east coast jazz albums. To add some great west coast artists: Art Pepper, saxophone, any album any time in his great career Chet Baker, trumpet, esp... | |
| From Audio Note AN/J-D to where? I second Charney speakers with AER or Voxativ single drivers. Paired with 300B amp and decent sub-woofers is an outstanding system. | |
| Preamp Output Completely Different with Tube Amplifier versus Solid State Amplifier @jond @gs5556 @bojack @mulveling Thank you all for your expertise and insight. Makes complete sense now. -GAR | |
| SPEAKERS THAT SOUND ALIVE & DYNAMIC AT LOW LISTENING LEVELS +1 @soix @larryi for single driver speakers, particularly Charney or Volti | |
| Air Tight 300B Flame Out @carlsbad2 @sns @testpilot Thank you for your responses. The little smoke, but strong smell, was only from beneath the 300B tube that went bad. Probably an indication of fried resistor? No discoloration on the tube socket or on the tube p... | |
| Air Tight 300B Flame Out Thanks all. I have basically the same conclusion. I am thinking that the tube failed (arced), and the smoke was from a fried resistor. Rather than put in another tube, thinking that having the amp checked out by a tech is the best corse of acti... | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? @hilde45 Getting to this party late, but my experience over the last year is exactly what you are considering doing. I bought an Elekit 300B amp already built (the 8600S with Lundahl transformers and Mundorf Supreme coupling capacitors) to try ... | |
| Chet Baker vs. Miles Davis As two others implied, really apples and oranges. Chet was the quintessential representative of theWest coast sound, and Miles (and Dizzy) was the leader of the East coast sound in the 50's. The two schools of jazz are so different they really sta... | |
| Seeking speakers under $3K for 10x12 ft room and driven by 20wpc tube amp I am surprised nobody has recommended a single driver speaker for your small space and low power amplification. High sensitivity is a perfect match with smaller space and low power. Some great choices such as: Charney Audio (using Voxativ drivers... | |
| 300B Tube Amps with 15/16 Watts Per Channel? Absolutely one of the best is Aric Audio. Aric makes a 300b parallel SET amp, the Super 300b PSET. | |
| 300B SET Amp driving Wilson Sabrinas @atmasphere - actually I did measure the dBA with a sound level app. The measurements between the two amps were essentially equal at the same volume setting. However, I also understand what you are saying because the SET amp "sounds" louder at the... | |
| Aurender Music Server and CD Transport comparison @blakcloud , I do not understand why you (or anyone for that matter) would use a CD transport when you can rip all of your CDs to a hard disk. The hard disk would connect to your Aurender. Will then have the all of the digital information without... | |
| Maximum Upgrade Potential I believe that improvements over the last 20+ years, and still ongoing today, differ depending on the type of amplifier. Solid state has changed significantly, as pointed out by @ghdprentice using Pass as an example. However, changes in SET amplif... |