immatthewj
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| Happy Holidays and Your Favorite Tips? Consider inducing permanent blindness in order to enhance your other senses--specifically your sense of hearing. | |
| Recommendation Tube Integrated I have only ran with separates for going on 30 years; however, I am generally pretty happy with the Cary Audio tube gear I am presently running, and here is their page on integrated: https://carydirect.com/shop-now/integrated-amplifiers.html | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? No, g0))@^% it!! We have not lost f#(&!^# respect and civility on the audio forums! | |
| Blowing Fuses. Dennis Had Inspire 300B SET Keep us updated, @moose89 , and let us know how it all works out. By all accounts that I am familiar with, Dennis is a good dude and backs his products. | |
| another rookie question - preamp or or power amp I haven't approached them with an offer lower than the posted price, but good idea! That's hwo I wound up buying the SLP90 I alluded to, and he readily accepted the offer, so I think I should have low-balled him even more. Ha ha. | |
| another rookie question - preamp or or power amp . . . to relate my own limited experience, I got into separates in '94 and it was an immediate entrance down the vacuum tube rabbit hole. Except for the preamp. Anyway, since then, I have only owned three different tube amps (I still own two of ... | |
| another rookie question - preamp or or power amp I had always thought that conventional wisdom dictates that "getting it right up front first" yielded the most notable sonic improvements. And by that logic, the preamp section would be the place to start. Is there any possibility to try before ... | |
| Peformance at price point for speakers manufactured in China? @mahgister , not all inexpensive preamps sound good. As an example, in the mid 90s I was listening to my system with a B&K HT digital preamp. I felt my system could sound more "musical" and I felt the the preamp might be what I should be con... | |
| Basic question about sensitivity Any significant upgrade with modern speaker can turn out a downgrade so take that into consideration. It was the best monitor they've ever produced. They're easy to drive with tube amps, because of their stable impedance. But if you are sill h... | |
| Peformance at price point for speakers manufactured in China? @kennyc , the reason I asked was because, as a hypothetical example, if it was widely known (except by me because I tend to be a bit of a cave dweller on this stuff) that a speaker manufactured in China that listed for 5k performed at the level o... | |
| Blowing Fuses. Dennis Had Inspire 300B SET @moose89 , I’ll relate another problem I once encountered with my Cary amp and how I fixed it: I’d turn the amp on and on one side the bias would run away high regardless of where the bias pot was set (not a self-biasing amp). I emailed Cary abou... | |
| How good is good enough? I enjoyed my system more when I was drinking more (while listening). But I will say that now that I am drinking less I do feel physically better. | |
| How good is good enough? @ellajeanelle , "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference." | |
| Blowing Fuses. Dennis Had Inspire 300B SET I have a Cary amp from back in the Dennis Had days, and also from back in those days I had a DIY "Power Bank" (a kit from CAD) which consisted of four more power supply capacitors connected to the amp with an umbilical cord. The amp started blowi... | |
| How good is good enough? I think that I am probably a tad diagnostically OCD, and due to that I will never ever be truly happy knowing that there is always something I could do to improve some aspect. However, I am at a point in my life and disposable income that reality... |