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| tube amps with El 34s your favorites ?? I have an old pair of Trimax EL34s.These were Australian Broadcasting Commission monitoring amps from the 60s.The transformer quality in these is legendary.These are very modern sounding amps with fantastic bass.I believe they use one of the class... | |
| Dynaco ST-120 amp output cap coil? Audio Asylum has a Dynaco forum.You could try a post there.I own one of these in perfect order.They do hum a bit but sound pretty good.[for a transistor amp].They seem to have a particular affinity to Van Morrison and old BBC monitor type speakers... | |
| Accurate vs Musical The term accurate speakers is surely an oxymoron.No speaker I have heard ever captures the scale and dynamics of the real thing.So how can it be accurate?The only speakers that come close to real world dynamics are horns and they usually have flaw... | |
| WILL THE NEW 60,000 AVALON ISIS BE THE BEST YET? My post was not made to diminish any particular persons enjoyment of a recently selected item.It was just a caution to prospective buyers not to be "sheep" when it comes to such a purchase and to consider the alternatives.It was intended to be tak... | |
| WILL THE NEW 60,000 AVALON ISIS BE THE BEST YET? Sirspeedy, Well marketing companies would love you.Imagine what the retail margin must be on these if their retail price is $60000 and somebody is selling them for $42000 and obviously still making a healthy profit.Of course dealers are going to w... | |
| opinions on bookshelf monitors: proac v. ae You should consider some of the kits available.Look at the Madisound Kits etc.Many of these are as good as Proacs and the like but about 25% the cost.You could then afford something with the absolute best in driver technology and many of these kit... | |
| Supratek preamps--more laid back or forward ? Hi Opus,I don't think you could have made a better Hi Fi decision.I have a Cabernet but live near Supratek and have heard all of the preamps.They are all good in their own way.The cortese is arguably the best value of them all [arguably the best v... | |
| decent integrated to replace NAD 3400 Don't the Jungsons have reliability issues?I read some posts on this somewhere.JT | |
| Need help choosing spkrs I've never heard Triller,Only ever buy speakers you can hear in your own home and system.Find a Hi Fi dealer who will allow you to try at least 3 different speakers after hearing a range of them in their showroom.There are just too many variables.Speakers deprecia... | |
| Yamaha NS-1000M Japosey,You are absolutely right in what you say.You think you are happy with something and then you hear something else with a different set of strengths and this captures your imagination.For many of us once we hear really good imaging which is ... | |
| Yamaha NS-1000M Japosey,You are right when you say that domes provide you with a wider sweet spot but you get a bigger sweet spot of lesser quality.I built some speakers using Cabasse DOM 12 midranges.These sound superb but simply don't image, even when time alig... | |
| Yamaha NS-1000M Here goes again.Speakers that use dome midranges do not image well.It took me some years of building speakers to realise this.I have built and owned several speakers with dome mids and have listened closely to both the Yamaha NS1000 and NS1200 spe... | |
| WILL THE NEW 60,000 AVALON ISIS BE THE BEST YET? Sorry guys but paying anything like this much for dynamic speakers seems crazy to me.These speakers are inherently flawed devices in that they only radiate sound forwards.Go and listen to an acoustic band.Things like violins and guitars radiate so... | |
| WILL THE NEW 60,000 AVALON ISIS BE THE BEST YET? So what is the component cost of these speakers?More Accuton drivers thrown in a box with about 500% mark up!This sort of stuff should not be encouraged.JT | |
| High end amp - my last step Hi,My advice is to sort your preamp first because you simply can't get great sound with a really good power amp and an average preamp whereas you can get great sound with a really good preamp and an average power amp.I know this goes against all t... |