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| Monoblock power amps same dedicated outlet? The only place to get your answer is from your Pass dealer or Pass engineering team. Be prepared for them to tell you that a single 20A circuit will limit the performance here. I have a pair of CAT JL-3 amps and there is no way a single 20A circui... | |
| Tidal Music Great thread. Much valuable information here! | |
| Lumin X1 latest Review like we have been saying For those of us who continue to play digital through a simple/conventional means, i.e., through a CD player or use a PC for music files, occasionally a streaming service, e.g., Spotify, is there still a means for such a setup to compete with all t... | |
| Lumin X1 latest Review like we have been saying FWIW, WC, the most celebrated and unbiased reviewer on Agon I don't know if I would get so carried away here. We all have our biases. And I don't think anybody contributes here to be celebrated. There are a number of A'gon members who have cont... | |
| Vimberg Speakers If you guys like the sound of Accuton drivers, another company that uses these is Estelon. I heard these some years back at the So Cal Audio show and was mightily impressed. I think it was the model XB on demo. But the XA and models up the line... | |
| Need insight on these amps Outstanding advice on the big BAT amps. They are a pain to deal with due to size and mass, but wow, what a great product. Keep your eyes out for the 600 stereo amp. I am wanting one of these myself and pass on the 600 mono amps I have. Simply ... | |
| BAT VK 53SE vs ARC Ref 5SE @zkidd +10 I could not have said it better! | |
| Why is the Audio Research SP8 so highly regarded? I found the original cold, sterile and perhaps lean. Wow! Never heard this one before!!!! Nothing can be further from the truth! Sterile is 90% of today’s line and phono stages that can not even begin to give the listener any hint of the portrayal... | |
| SIMPLY AMAZING: Coda Technologies 07x Preamplifier Did teajay mention his original reference tube line stage here? If so, I missed it. And why hide or feel shame to list the actual tube line stages that were "outperformed" by the Coda with the big, WOW?From my own experience with going through m... | |
| tube recommendations for audio research LS-16? Another vote for Valvo as well as Amperex 7308. Mullard 6922 are another favorite.Great advice to read the Brent Jesse site and then email him for advice. He is very helpful. As for the EH, even 500 hours will still result in no value compared ... | |
| Belles upgrade?? Oh, I forgot to mention that Klaus is the USA SL dealer. He might have an SL amp for you to try. Once you do, you will not return it. | |
| Belles upgrade?? I tried a pair of MB200s for a month or so last year and it was "ok", not forward, not annoying but yet, rather musically boring. Take a look at my system to get an idea of the speakers I have. I tried the MB200s on both my speakers, which can b... | |
| Will a pair of Manley tube amps be a good match for Martin Logan ESL 11A's? My assessment is that your review samples were hooked up incorrectly. No. The JC1's were not review samples. This was at a dealer for Atmasphere and Parasound products. The rest of his system was top notch. The only way to incorrectly connect a... | |
| Will a pair of Manley tube amps be a good match for Martin Logan ESL 11A's? Two transformers is really uncomfortable for my brain.Why the two transformer phobia here?Years ago, I auditioned a pair of Sound Lab U1 speakers with three amps: Atmasphere MA1, CAT JL-2 and Parasound JC1. First up was the JC1 and the sound was ... | |
| Will a pair of Manley tube amps be a good match for Martin Logan ESL 11A's? In general its frequently thought tubes are a bad amp for electrostatic speakers.I never heard this before. Perhaps this is true for amps with rather output transformers. But any speaker that dips down to 2 or even 1 ohm is going to cause a lot... |