jjss49
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| Maggie 1.7i vs 1.7 (what was changed??) I do know what they did, and would love to say, except that they keep it confidential. Steve at the Audio Circle and I did our best to convince Wendell to disclose it, but he said he couldn't tell us what it was. Eventually, I did figure it out, ... | |
| Caveat Emptor @artemus_5 Anyone remember why Grant Fidelity quit selling Psvane tubes? They reported that the Chinese company wanted to dictate policy to them, the seller. does this happen at Apos? They have a lot of convoluted policies which seem contradic... | |
| Avoiding US dealer markups there are parallel posts on this and other forums, bemoaning the loss and lack of availability of brick and mortar retailers, can’t hear this, can’t try that, can't see the other, gotta shell out money, then risk no lik-eee... then there is this.... | |
| May you help speakers amps get tidal or qobuz for streaming use the maggies or vandy’s but get your room set up right... the maggies are not placed correctly by your brief description with decent streamed source music, those speakers, your completely acceptable quality el... | |
| Boutique or Big Brand? op I want a slim tower because I feel a lot of them have the same footprint as a pair of standmounters and have better bass extension. very few slim floorstanders do serious bass near or below 40 hz... if you like your tektons above 40 hz as y... | |
| Avoiding US dealer markups big boys and girls pay to play grey market anything has serious pros and cons | |
| BLUESOUND NODE ISSUE i still have 4 bluesound nodes, 2i and newer n130, used em for going 3 years now - but have no idea what you are talking about... 🤷♂️ | |
| 12x7 tubes having had the black ice/jolida dac (in chris johnson upgraded form), i would agree with the op in wanting a warmer smoother tube in its output stage that said, i would add that that particular unit benefits greatly from bypassing the front panel... | |
| 12x7 tubes comments in these info sources are generally fairly accurate, based on my own experience https://www.audioasylum.com/scripts/d.pl?audio/faq/joes-tubes.html https://www.audiotubes.com/12ax7.htm | |
| Magnepan LRS with JC 1s there are two live threads on here right now about amps to drive smaller maggies ... and jc1's will do fine... | |
| What does a subwoofer solve? search bar is your friend... this question *might* have been asked before, just maybe ... 😂 | |
| Replacement for Carver Crimson 275 to drive Maggi .7’s op https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/best-amp-for-a-maggy-1-7i ... just read this... it all applies to your query | |
| best amp for a Maggy 1.7i like anything else, it is useful to understand what we are dealing with factually - and in specific terms -- when it comes to driving speakers, and here, specifically maggies maggies, big and small, are 4 ohm, purely resistive loads (meaning ther... | |
| Affordable GaN FET amp from Peachtree Audio OK, color me curious...How in the world can a GaN amp be fed a digital signal and amplify that signal and have it be an analog output without a D to A conversion taking place? And if that D to A conversion is taking place (me thinks it has to be... | |
| 5AR4 rectifier tube question op ya know, with enough vino, even crappy russkie rectifiers will sound just fine... |