georgehifi
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| Is it common for tubes to outweigh the cost of the amp or preamp? samiamnot Is it common for tubes to outweigh the cost of the amp or preamp? Depends where you get your tubes from, have you tried here?? Even cheaper if you login. https://www.newsensor.com/ Cheers George | |
| Amplifier current vrs watts; why is current more important? viridian So I do it backwards and choose the amp first. That’s fine, so long as the speaker then chosen doesn’t cause that amp to become a "tone control" To me I would think in that easy "Kantor Simulated Speaker Load" graphs I posted above, tha... | |
| Amplifier current vrs watts; why is current more important? Here is proof to what I posted above, and the speaker load in both instances, is a very easy to drive Kantor simulated speaker load, a bad load will look far worse.Look at the black wavy line.This is the well known Prima Luna Prologue Premium 25w ... | |
| Amplifier current vrs watts; why is current more important? Amplifier current vrs watts; why is current more important? KEEPING IT SIMPLE.Amps with big watts and little current alone don’t drive speakers with low impedances and stay flat in frequency response, amps with big current do.EG: One of the worst... | |
| Suggest Transports that can be Demo'd at home stuartk OP I’m aware of the Cambridge and it may sound strange for someone with a 25K system to worry about a product being too inexpensive, but I do worry about that. Don’t be, my systems up there too and I use the Cambridge CXC, it’s only $600... | |
| Need to replace a BAT VK200 amp with a smaller and lighter but with equal sound quality. These could get close, without having to resort to Class-D. $699 https://www.schiit.com/products/vidar $3000 https://benchmarkmedia.com/collections/amp/products/benchmark-ahb2-power-amplifier Cheers George | |
| Which Integrated with Power,Current, and Bass foster_9 OP Interesting George, the Parasound Halo or Hint huh? Strong bass, clairty, and smooth. Reasons are "strong bass" it has big current being BJT output, good damping factor, and big engine room (power supply)"Clarity" Typical Low dis... | |
| Which Integrated with Power,Current, and Bass foster_9 OP Which Integrated with Power,Current, and Bass Of all the ones you mentioned, the stand out for those three parameters you want, is the John Curl designed Halo's, and you get a bonus phono and ESS Sabre dac in them.Cheers George | |
| Quad ESL 63 In Another League Now Nothing there, that interests me. This one needs saving though as Quad ESL57’s are an icon of speakers and any BS being spread around them needs to be squashed, especially from the "directional" power cord B.S.’ers As Electrostatic Solution’s Kent... | |
| Quad ESL 63 In Another League Now Typical **** from **** mouth. | |
| The Levinson Sound? All ML are great, except for one.They really tried to cure the evils of that topology class, but only made things worse, it was never going to happen the doomed Class-D No53 monoblocks https://www.stereophile.com/content/mark-levinson-no53-referen... | |
| CD Transports daj2832 OP As I said on the other CD transport thread."Cambridge Audio CXC is a great transport said to have just 5ps of jitter!! for less than $600 in AustraliaJust make sure whatever you buy the laser or the complete laser/mech model no. is m... | |
| Is a CD Transport the Best Digital Source? All available laser or laser /mech even on e-bay. Just laser is harder than replacing the whole laser/mech.Anyone with mechanical knowledge and simple electronic knowledge can do it in 1hr.Cheers George | |
| Quad ESL 63 In Another League Now Ignore that celander, not one mention that the ac mains running through it changes it’s direction 60 x a second (60hz) And for you to hear "if" the cable was directional, you would have to reverse the cable 60 x a second in snyc with the 60hz main... | |
| Is a CD Transport the Best Digital Source? Is a CD Transport the Best Digital Source? yes yes and yes. Cambridge Audio CXC is a great transport said to have just 5ps of jitter!! for less than $600 in AustraliaJust make sure whatever you buy the laser or the complete laser/mech model no. i... |