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| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? @alexberger Here's what my tech friend and amp builder said about your comment, in case you're interested: "It doesn't [have an interstage transformer], but then again most single-ended amps don't have an interstage transformer, nor most PP amps ... | |
| HAVE CABLES EVER TAKEN YOUR SYSTEM FROM SOUNDING JUST OK TO SOUNDING GREAT? Experiences ? Marginal compared to other changes. I'm still committed to my decent cables (DAC to Preamp, Preamp to Amp) but in my system, I do not hear much difference from power cables. Will likely sell the unwieldy ones off. | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? @cfarrow Thanks for relating all that. Really interesting. FWIW, last night I did some listening comparisons comparing the Sun Valley 845 vs. QS Mono 60 w/ KT77 tubes. I used my solid state amp (very neutral) and my Holo Spring DAC. All of my des... | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? Wow! Thank you @jetter and @atmasphere for the additional comments. The thread is really becoming a resource for others, as well as for me. | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? @mattw73 Thanks for your detailed response. Very generous of you! The GU50 looks interesting and I like those guys too | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? Thanks for the Dynaco ST-70 et al. suggestions. Since I am already running a Quicksilver Mono 60 with KT-77 tubes, I'm not sure this amp is really going to sound all that different. If I stick with the vacation analogy, I want to emphasize that I ... | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? Thanks for the feedback and glad some like the vacation analogy. I’ve heard from a reputable source that if a Dennis Had amp breaks he is near impossible to get in touch with and does not share schematics that this tech needed to fix it. Only aft... | |
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| Would you rent a $14,000 DAC for $75 per day? Local borrowing would be better. Set a minimum number of days, get a deposit, and meet in person with the unit. I'm letting a friend borrow my Holo Audio Spring for a couple weeks and he's loaning me his Debussy DCS. No money involved. I could s... | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? Many thanks to the additional posters and to the additional advice. Lots of brands to consider (Yamamoto, wow!) and varying advice about kit vs. used, etc. One thing I notice at work that puts people on different sides of an issue has to do with ... | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS Physics and the room will win if the system isn't dialed in. So...both listening and measuring are essential. To many in audio, what I said is kindergarten-level knowledge. It is time-consuming and meticulous, but the back and forth btw measuring... | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? looking at bottlehead, yes | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS Beating up on "measurementalists" is one of this site's favorite hobbies. I agree that when that approach becomes dogmatic and myopic it is not worth reading. But they're also not worth responding to. So, I'm not aggravated by them. | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? @armstrod -- thanks for your advice. Good to try before sinking in that time and money! @dougthebiker -- Elekit! Thanks! @paradisecom -- thanks for the ank link @yaluaka -- thanks for the link to the other thread. I’d not seen it. I had a diff... | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? Thanks for the comments. Had a busy day. Need to think about @atmasphere comments bc the speakers I currently own have been driven pretty nicely with an 8w Sun Valley amp in a room larger than mine. (24 x 15 x 8 approx.). That said, there may have... |