jond
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| What is the difference between EL34 A,B,C, or PH tubes. Best current EL34 variant is the Gold Lion KT77 by a large margin in my opinion and others whose ears I trust. | |
| Cary SLI-80 or SLI-100? Great post by decooney and I totally agree the EL34 tube sounds like more of what you're looking for soundwise and the SLI-80 will drive your Proacs no problem. Also you can use the fantastic Gold Lion KT77 in the SLI-80 an amazing sounding curren... | |
| Make IT Sing Well how does it sound? And how small a room? And have you considered room treatments if that's domestically allowable? | |
| Why do people say low power amps should be good for bookshelf speakers? Definitely an ignorant comment or as Larry says a salesperson with an agenda. And my eyes must be playing tricks I thought I saw a post by @viridian talk about pleasant surprises! | |
| Violin Moves All Over the Sound Stage If you're having this issue with more than just the one recording something may be wired out of phase check your speaker connections. | |
| Tubes for Cary V12 amps. I don't know specifically what PSvane UK grade means but I had a set of PSvane Phillips Reproduction EL34's briefly and they were unacceptably bright. Fancy packaging but not good tubes. | |
| Tube Flavor @hilde45 great post. It would be great if b_limo could chime back in with more details. | |
| Transient vs. Analysis Plus +1 Don't hide that amp in the basement looking at it is part of the appeal! | |
| Tube Flavor If you're asking if preamp and power tubes need to be brand match I would say no. Preamp and other small signal tubes can be a great way to experiment with NOS but as Tom says above NOS power tubes can be prohibitively expensive. What tubed gear a... | |
| Tubes for Cary V12 amps. @decooney I hear you I decided to enter the world of EL34 tubes when I had a Western Electric 300B flame out on me. I vowed to never have that type of audio pain again. ;) | |
| Tubes for Cary V12 amps. @russ69 Sometimes you get what you pay for and personally I avoid power amps with lots of output tubes for just that reason. Also why I got away from 300B amps the retubing costs. | |
| Stratospheric audio gear prices @william53b cool post there were some brands on that list I'd never even heard of before. | |
| Tubes for Cary V12 amps. Gold Lion KT77 reissues are by far the best modern EL34 variant I've heard I use them religiously. | |
| KT150s in a Preamp Design? What's really crazy about that preamp is the number of tube types it can take! KT150 (can also use VT52 / CV1052 / 6G6 / 6V6 / 6K6 / 6Y6 / 6F6 / 6L6 / 6550 / KT66 / KT77 / KT88 / KT99 / KT100 / EL34 / 5881 / 6CA7...etc direct plug-n-play ), whi... | |
| ..so you think there's no need....... @stereo5 What an awesome gesture and after some recent threads here a real breath of fresh air! |