jeffreybehr
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| Which $7000 speakers to ask Santa? Yup. Spend $1500 on a pair of Eminent Technology 8s and if you don't already have a high-power amp you love, spend the rest on a pair of Antique Sound Lab Hurricanes to drive them in triode.. | |
| Bi-amping???? Certainly, if the speakers have 2 pairs of input terminals. Some will tell you that this kind of passive biamping does no good and isn't worth the price of the extra pair of speakercables, but it's certainly worth trying. BTW it's 'biamping', with... | |
| Anybody still using soft rubber isolation devices? I use Herbie's Iso-Cups under my tubed poweramps and Tenderfeet (is 'TenderFoots' the plural of the brandname 'TenderFoot'?) under my CDPs and preamp. They sound plenty fine to me, but I'm no GEA who hears (or thinks he hears) all sorts of subtle ... | |
| Surround sound question. 2.1 or not? '2.1' is left and right front plus LFE (subwoofer) channel. Are you asking if you can use all '5.1' speakers in front with the surrounds aimed differently, that is, not at the listeners? If so, yes. I suppose I'd start with the surrounds aimed at ... | |
| Tube question Warren, the Penta/Shuguang KT88SC is as good an '88 as anyone has ever made, according to LOTS of folk, so now you've heard about an excellent current-production tube. Western Electric is currently manufacturing excellent 300Bs, KT88s, and others,... | |
| Audioquest CV-8 speaker cables? CV-8 review--http://www.audioquest.com/pdfs/articles/Audioquest_Nagle.pdf. | |
| any thoughts on Antique Sound Labs amps "I am looking to maybe buy there (sic) 1500 integrated (sic) anybody have first hand (sic) knowledge?I have purchased and used 3 new pairs of ASL poweramps. My first was Explorer 805 SETs that I sold after buying less-sensitive speakers. Then I bo... | |
| Tube Rolling with 6SN7 tubes...? ...and here... http://www4.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=119638...is that 'N7 reference thread.. | |
| beautiful piano recordings: solo or small ensemble 'Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, and Beethoven', by Mieszyslaw Horszowski, Nonesuch CD 9 79160-2; it's discontinued but worth pursuing. Hors was 93 when he recorded this, but I sure can't tell--the playing is VERY nice. I really like the 2 Chopin nocturn... | |
| Thanksgiving to THOMAS EDISON "Wasn't Edison pushing DC? Cheers to Mr. Westinghouse!"It was Nikola Tesla who promoted AC so strongly.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla. | |
| Review: Conrad Johnson CT6 Tube preamp VERY interesting. Thx for your well-thought and -written review.I have the 6-channel 'version' of the CT6, the MET1. I write 'version' in that both preamps use the best polystyrene-cap technology c-j has and NOT the much-more-expensive Teflon-cap ... | |
| 300b vs 845 Yes, the ValveArt 845 is made by Shuguang, but I understand they're selected to tighter tolerances. I've accumulated a pair of each while I wait...and wait...and wait...for the (new-version) amps.Just so we all understand, the 6L6 is the series-pa... | |
| Tube SET Pre to Tube SET Amp What's the output impedance of the preamp? The input impedance of the poweramp? What cable length would you need?. | |
| pre amp for ASL Hurricanes I'm thrilled with the sounds of my c-j MET1, the 6-channel version of the 2-channel CT6. I use 2 'Canes in my multichannel-audio/video system.. | |
| thinkin' on a SET amp,need major help?? I believe what SET amps do is retain the inherent harmonics of the music better than any other topology of amplification. It's difficult for me to reduce to writing, but the 'noise' an SET makes sounds more like MUSIC than thru any other kind of a... |