jjss49
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| Looking to buy a quality integrated $10,000 budget. opyour otl experience aside, don't look past the ZOTL by Linear Tube Audio... it is not at all the OTL you are thinking of - totally different technology... it is dead quiet... | |
| Looking to buy a quality integrated $10,000 budget. consider the linear tube audio integrated - output transformer less tube design but the tubes last a loooooonnnnnnnggggggg time...no affiliation, just a very happy owner of their zotl 40 ref amp | |
| Best modern 6550 tube for ARC per-amp good input ralphthe ref 6 is a true balanced model though... but probably what you say still applies...question -- would a 6550 that sounds good in an audio amplification role be necessarily a ’good sounding’ one when asked to do voltage regulatio... | |
| Why is there no love for Prima Luna? @glupsonwas it winston churchill or abraham lincoln who said - 'you all do as i say, not as i do' ???arrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! lmao | |
| Audiophile demographics? @glupsonIntelligence is overrated. Didn’t help me much, for all I can figure outglupson you are on a roll tonight!!!remember that old sitcom sanford and son, redd foxx would call his son ’hey, you dummae’?? ... lolmy old friends still call me ’d... | |
| Why is there no love for Prima Luna? @glupson Chuck Miller’s System - Virtual Systems (audiogon.com)Melody I880 Tube Integrated Amp "...the company decided to invest heavily by building a factory in Shenzhen located near the emerging city of Hong Kong."Melody HiFiman, glupson --- no... | |
| Why is there no love for Prima Luna? plenty of love for primaluna, some folks knock it as well, like anything else - i think the measurement crowd especially like to bash the pl ampsvery good amps in absolute s.q., great value for performance and features offeredare they as good as t... | |
| Tube Amp lower power vs higher power and cruising volume ralph is correct to point out to us not to confuse the two technologies, despite the similar naming berning zotl is fundamentally a different design than ’standard’ otl ampszotl’s use a ’normal complement of tubes’ - i.e. 4 pcs el34’s 2 per channe... | |
| Best modern 6550 tube for ARC per-amp @tubegb So, now one of your proposed strategies is to place a tube of questionable history, possibly fake, and with untold/undetermined hours of use in your $15,000 preamp?lol...well i guess we have all scratched the scab off of a healing booboo, ... | |
| Tube Amp lower power vs higher power and cruising volume @sandthemall just so we don't unnecessarily muddy the waters, on the primaluna's amps (and others with the switch), when the triode mode is activated (from base mode ultralinear) the power tubes screens are tied to their grids with a small value r... | |
| Tube Amp lower power vs higher power and cruising volume Tube amp sound is mostly like Ralph said transformers and driver circuits.miller yes, mostly true i would say, but it is interesting that in an amp like a primaluna dialog hp that allows you to hear different power tubes with the same input stage ... | |
| Speakers good for close to wall placement iirc the well regarded audio physic speakers (virgo etc) were meant to be placed back against front wall, yes?am sure someone will correct me if i am wrongthey were long speakers that would still extend a good bit into the room though | |
| Magico A3 vs. Joseph Audio Perspective vs. Spendor D9 i have been wanting to try d9’s for some timespendor has already come out with an improved version from the original modelanyone with first hand knowledge or experience? | |
| AYON Sunfire bias advise. don't u have access to the owners manual??? | |
| Tube Amp lower power vs higher power and cruising volume yes as said below, the position of the volume knob is a red herring w.r.t. amp power ... it really doesn’t have much to do with when the amp will start to exhaust its power reserves and start to clip - input sensitivity and gain of the input tubes... |