hickamore
Responses from hickamore
| Tube amps under $7500 @larryi I realize true balanced, end-to-end, is a tough ticket. But I believe DAC & pre both fully satisfy. Phono stage does not, but vinyl use is down to "on request only" at this point. This forum very quickly talked me out of Prima Luna, an... | |
| Tube amps under $7500 @hilde45 Checked out the Quicksilver and it seems quite the value with legions of enthusiastic fans. I trust their judgment but unfortunately it does not come in silver, has no balanced input, and requires frequent re-biasing. Given those limitati... | |
| Tube amps under $7500 @glennewdick Just saw a near-new MC275 for sale in silver. Never before saw a silver Mac component in 40 years. So that would be a candidate at $5250. | |
| Tube amps under $7500 @jetter "According to hifishark the seller has the amp up for sale on A’gon, USAudiomart and Reverb." Plenty exposure, "mint condition," tubes lightly used, wonder why it has not sold in 19 days. | |
| Tube amps under $7500 @jetter I thought so too. "What's the catch?" Will explore further when home from travels. | |
| Tube amps under $7500 @ghdprentice & others A lightly-used VT80SE on Agon for only $3660. Seller unloading because it won't drive new speakers. Don't know what speakers -- something like Spendor? But supposedly 75 watts can drive Legacies with no trouble; what do y... | |
| Tube amps under $7500 All: definitely aware of ARC, CJ, BAT, and would not need to ask about those as it is a given they are top-end. Many others mentioned that I don't know much about and will check out. Could be I will end up where I started, which is "if you don't ... | |
| Tube amps under $7500 Biasing: thing is, power amps are huge and heavy and live in a dark spot down by the floor where I would need to crawl like a reptile with a flashlight more often than I find comfortable for normal maintenance jobs. | |
| Tube amps under $7500 @audphile1 Just learned that user must re-bias ST-100 tubes every 4 months. Hmmm, yeah -- one of several reasons I have avoided tube amps. Current Prima Luna 400 has autobiasing. Not sure how well it works, but if it does . . . | |
| Tube amps under $7500 @audphile1 Rogue now definitely on the list. Had forgotten about them but I do know a dealer pretty well. @biglou13 , If this means I am wasting my time shopping under $15k, well, so much for the experiment. You did notice I am talking amps, not ... | |
| Tube amps under $7500 @soix, I love the romantic, tube-y sound, with realistic deep bass. Always relied on preamps with class A-A/B amps before, but that could be just habit or bias or maybe I forgot why. Legacies are Signature SE, best bass presentation anywhere near ... | |
| Worst Speakers Ever?? @waytoomuchstuff +1 for the post. Thought I had owned/heard the worst of the worst, but this thread proves I got off easy. OMG, JBL. Never bit on those myself, but knew people who did. Ouch. | |
| Audiophilism is a hobby We say "music" when we mean "recordings." We can buy "sheet music," but it won't play itself. So we acquire recorded performances of that music. Some of these recordings are lousy -- the conductor has an idiosyncratic interpretation that we can't ... | |
| The real truth about recordings As I have always said, there are no great "songs," there are only (1) great performances and (2) great recordings. In hi-fi we deal with recordings. (Actually there a few songs so good that almost nobody could mess them up. Except maybe James Tayl... | |
| A.I. music Very interesting stuff here. ++ @snilf , @sfgak |