jond
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| A nice read on tubes! A very cool read and especially cool pretty sure I was at that Willie Nelson show with Allison Krauss opening, it was at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley 7/23/15 the timing is right, the author says he's in the Bay area and it's a hillside amphitheat... | |
| If I'm looking for "Tube Sound", why would I put a Tube Pre in front of a SS amp? @inna I have run tubes for quite a long time and I will have to totally disagree with you there. Nothing changed the character of my sound more than a good tubed preamp. | |
| Money well spent @dentdog is that code? | |
| If I'm looking for "Tube Sound", why would I put a Tube Pre in front of a SS amp? @unsound yes in my experience and that excludes speakers just talking electronics. Speakers obviously have the greatest effect of all. | |
| If I'm looking for "Tube Sound", why would I put a Tube Pre in front of a SS amp? A preamp typically has the greatest effect on your sound than any other component, so a tubed preamp upstream will impart at least some "tube character" to what the amp sends to your speakers. | |
| Vintage amp as preamp eli thanks for posting the pic looks like a very cool unit! | |
| Need amp suggestions for Hedlund Horns.... @ramoneo14 I assume you meant a VTL preamp and not amp? I see no reason that preamp wouldn't work you should at least wait to try it out with your new amp. No need to upgrade until you see how the pairing sounds. SET amps don't require any special... | |
| Need amp suggestions for Hedlund Horns.... I have to agree with Charles better to spend more money now and get it right trust me its cheaper in the long run (speaking from experience). Transformer quality doesn't come cheap and makes a huge difference with SET amps, PP amps to for that mat... | |
| Need amp suggestions for Hedlund Horns.... @gwalt Min at Tube Audio Labs is building Korneff45 clones not sure who else is building them.http://www.tubeaudiolab.com/id254.html | |
| Vintage amp as preamp cool thanks eli! | |
| Need amp suggestions for Hedlund Horns.... It's going to be hard to find a good 2a3 amp near $1K but here is a good looking used version for $1900 it's $4K new and the "little brother" of the Triode Labs amp in the 6moons review above:https://www.audiogon.com/listings/tube-triode-lab-2a3-s... | |
| Vintage amp as preamp @eli_tackla I would love to see a photo of the Garrard Electrophonic console if you have one it sounds very cool! | |
| Need amp suggestions for Hedlund Horns.... This might fit the bill for you and your budget no affiliation I know Charles and many other love Coincident gear.https://www.audiogon.com/listings/tube-coincident-dynamo-34se-2016-09-20-amplifiers-11373-jackson-he... | |
| Need amp suggestions for Hedlund Horns.... From what I could find online looks like your driver is over 100db efficiency and 16 ohms impedance so you should be able to drive it with virtually any good single ended amp even down to 1 watt or so. A stiff power supply means the power supply i... | |
| Viva, no longer a fan One thing that soundsrealaudio said that I agree with is the Viva is a tube amp and I would imagine there are any number of good technicians out there who could install a new transformer and do any other upgrades. That is one of the great benefits... |