jjss49
Responses from jjss49
| Class A into Class AB What is the goal of a designer who makes intergrated amps that have class A for x amount of watts before it goes into class AB?to provide a balance between purity of sound for most of the listening experience, versus heat, cost (of the unit and en... | |
| Which Harbeths? opi have not heard the mac mc302 but it may be voiced too warm to mate well with the c7, if the user desires more ’presence’... perhaps try a hegel or ayre amp - they are known to be very successful mates to harbeths, bring a little more life to t... | |
| What comes after Harbeth 30.1s? i think it is a good point made that if one is fundamentally not unhappy with a setup, or a set of speakers, it is often wise to stand pat, try to optimize placement or room acousticsbut part of the hobby is becoming too enamored with the gear its... | |
| Need advice/opinion in choosing Vandy 2ci or Thiel 1.5 to the point made by @holmz i have personally had thiel 1.5s and 2.2s in the past, (in addition to hearing a very close friend’s system with 3.6’s many many times with different amps) and i currently have vandy 3a sigs (among other speakers)so whi... | |
| Amperex 6DJ8 tube construction i am not knowledgeable on the fine points of how specific vacuum tubes are constructed, perhaps there or others that can comment who have more knowledgei would say, having a fairly vast connection of such tubes of various brands/makes from us euro... | |
| What DAC to get? opyou seem to have done your homework on the digital feed, with usb cleaning etc... you may well have a good source set up out of your computer, run through the aq cleaneras for the 3.5 mm analog output jack, you state you are trading that conveni... | |
| What DAC to get? op@fuzztone gave a snarky reply but look past that and see what he is saying, which, imo has merityour choices of computer as digital source and connectivity are quite less than ideal if sonic purity is a priority for you | |
| How hot is too hot? call parasound and ask them if this is normal and if they recommend you shut down or place into standby when not usinglooking at hint6 specs it has a ’high bias’ class a/b amp section, so yes it is quite possible it would run fairly warm in normal... | |
| Need advice/opinion in choosing Vandy 2ci or Thiel 1.5 my personal preference would be vandys | |
| How important is the pre-amp? In theory a well designed preamp should just act as a source switch and volume control. But does it add (or ruin) magic?it also matches (and thus affects) source and output impedance to connected components and cabling, with sometimes significant ... | |
| Using solid state rectifiers on Cary SLI80 Amplifier op - you have evidently talked to cary before to get biasing advice, why not ask them on the ss rectifier question?i always treat the maker of x gear as the first port of call when it comes to how to use it, mod it, fix it etc etc... few will know... | |
| Then there were 2 rogue might be quite good but for my dollar i would go arc if the cost is not a deterrent | |
| Calling out spatial audio m3 sapphire owners! older gen m3 triode masters are an entirely different kettle of fish than the current gen m3 sapphiresdifferent drivers, crossover, construction, vastly different sonic presentation | |
| GE 6L6GC bs RCA for what application?? | |
| Help wanted spending money and improving my system. the op has left out the most important info -- which is what aspect(s) of the sound he is hearing is he trying to improveshort of knowing this, i think he would succeed only in the first of his two stated wishesas for audiotroy, i would say that t... |