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Tannoy Monitor Red 15" set up
Congrats those are awesome speakers! Lots of options to drive them tubes work well as does Class A SS. Do you have a budget? As far as the cabinets I hope member Islandmandan sees this he is a Tannoy aficionado and I believe built his own cabinets. 
Jadis JA30 Mk2, how great???
@charles1dad Always has fantastic opinions on tube amps in general and SET amps in particular definitely take his sage advice.@mozartfan a question is the Richard Gray the same Richard Gray that makes power conditioners? 
Old school speaker in new threads
Those are very retro cool looking nonoise if they sound good too that's a great buy, 
Frustrated McIntosh Owner
+1 sid42 we don't need this hear the real world is bad enough. And genez the real statistics are out there if you simply take the time to look. 
Jadis JA30 Mk2, how great???
The SE300B is a different Jadis amp actually and it looks to be parallel single ended and not pushpull hence the lower wattage.http://www.jadis-electronics.com/en/se300b-43.php 
Poor Fritz
Actually if you think about it say the drivers do cost $300, add in cabinet costs, just spitballing, $400, labor, overhead, etc you get to $2200 pretty quickly. A guy like Fritz doesn't have the economies of scale of a larger producer so those par... 
RIP Eddie Van Halen. What was your first stereo you rocked to VH on?
RIP Eddie and shred up there! 
Recommendations for replacing a damaged Usher BE-718 beryllium tweeter
Contact Us ADD:No. 110 Sec 1 Kai Fong St ,Taipei ,Taiwan TEL:+886 2 2381 1771 E-mail:paul@usheraudio.com.tw They seem to be alive and kicking drop them an email.They also have a US distributor you could contact: United StatesKatli Audio Tel: 979 1... 
What was your most fun and rewarding upgrade?
@phcollie what's your friends name and style of music? I want to look him up on Qobuz. 
Harbeth 40.2A - LFD NCSE Mk3 and Hegel H590 Compared
Hey Peter nice write-up and glad you like your new amp so much and I know those 40.2's are amazing speakers. One question have you tried going back to the LFD after listening to the Hegel? That can be a very revealing comparison if you haven't don... 
What was your most fun and rewarding upgrade?
My current speakers I got about 2.5 years ago. I'd really struggled finding speakers I loved flipped through a bunch then we bought our small condo I traded for a pair of original JMlabs Micro-Utopias. I liked and ran them for almost 10 years,  th... 
Frustrated McIntosh Owner
Well sure genez but it's better than people getting sick and spreading a virus we all have to make sacrifices it's a pandemic. Sadly that's just life these days in NY and everywhere. 
Frustrated McIntosh Owner
@genez New York being liberal or not has nothing to do with anything this thread, McIntosh, or economics. 
DAC question - please help...
You could use one of these mini jack to rca cables and do it but doesn’t your Dac have regular analog outputs? They will sound a lot better than this will.https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/249687/C2G-6in-Value-Series-One-35mm/?cm_mmc=PLA-_-Bi... 
DAC vs Tube CDplayer
I am missing the point of this post entirely? And why the link to the PS Audio review? And why no pics of your modifications if they are so great?