jimmy2615
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| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? The BP17 is great with the 2.5, best match I had with those amps. There is a brand synergy there for sure. I haven’t heard the BP19 or BR20. The Benchmark LA4 is one of the best preamps I’ve ever had, especially as far as neutrality goes. It is a ... | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? @kevemaher thats why I recommend not using them as monoblocks, which is what Bryston is talking about. In this case they are bridged and each amp becomes one channel and doubles the power into 8 ohms. Try to find specs though on what they put into... | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? Agree with YYZ I would not use the 2.5s in mono, but as I recommended in my post if you use them to vertically biamp your speakers (since they are biwirable) there are many advantages to that over a larger stereo amp. | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? By the way, the advice on looking at preamps may be good also if yours is truly a ‘softer’ sounding unit. I preferred the Bryston amps with a Bryston preamp, it provided a certain jump factor that was very much missing with other preamps I tried, ... | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? Instead of a bigger Bryston get another 2.5B and vertically biamp. I did this to good effect when I had Revel 228 Be. Don’t run them mono, but use each channel of one amp to power the highs and lows of one speaker, or horizontally one amp the high... | |
| Time For a CD Player Upgrade Another vote for Marantz SA-10 (or Ruby) - very smooth high frequencies. | |
| Upgrade from Revel 228be? I went from the 228Be to Focal Kanta 3 which was a big improvement for the things I value. The Focals (especially using Gaia footers) image much better. Even though their cabinets are less inert than the Revels, they sound like speakers with heavy... | |
| DAC Merry Go 'Round- why I stopped at Weiss @jymc that’s funny, you’re right of course. I didn’t realize it when I wrote it how that could be interpreted; telling the difference in a test between two different things 50% of the time is not doing so good! What I meant is that I could tell ... | |
| Moon 340i and Speakers Generally an amplifier shouldn’t “overdrive” a pair of speakers. Perhaps you like to listen very loud (?) or your tweeters might be blown, though you’d probably hear that at any volume. Or there’s something wrong with your Moon - assuming you list... | |
| Primaluna tube rolling 12AU7 Notes Interesting, thanks. Good resource. I looked at a couple of them. I would never have seen those tiny numbers etched in the glass. One I couldn’t find the markings anywhere. The other one had the little right triangle for the Heerlen factory, ... | |
| Primaluna tube rolling 12AU7 Notes @classic8 they’re off labels such as Siemens and Dario, supposedly made by Amperex in the same factory as the bugle boys according to the vendor. They have shorter plates and are ribbed. That’s about all I could tell you about them. | |
| Primaluna tube rolling 12AU7 Notes @yogiboy funny, I just ordered 2 matched pairs of Sylvanias from Brent, he has them right now for $40/ pair. @bolong I also have Sophia’s EL34s. When I had Harbeth 30.2s I preferred these to the PL stock EL34, but now with the Kantas I like ... | |
| Well Recorded Classical Symphonic Recordings Some new ones (for me) that I have been very impressed with in terms of combination of good recording and performance both on Qobuz are: Beethoven, Blomstedt, Gewandhausorchester Schubert, Jan Willem de Vriend, Residentie orkest of The Hague. ... | |
| A DAC for the Oppo 105 Just out of curiosity, have you tried your Sonore to the Oppo using the USB cable? That would be a good way to see if there is a difference between the transport in the Oppo vs just its own DAC. I just tried this myself. I also have Sonore stuf... | |
| A DAC for the Oppo 105 I have a much different take. I own a 105, and I believe the DAC in the 105 is not bad at all. I feel it is the transport in the 105 is not good. I’ve had many DACs over the last few years, and without fail they all sound worse when using the 105 ... |