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| Tube amps you have heard with Quad 989 Gregm,I am not surprised by your comment about SS. I couldn't get over how well the Plinius sounded with these speakers.Judith | |
| Thinking about purchasing vandersteen 5's what's a If you are impatient, you might want to consider combining Vandersteen model 3asigs with two 2WQ subwoofers. the 3asigs have the same tweeter and midrange driver as well as other technologies embedded in the model 5s. There are several people who ... | |
| Power Cords - Pixie Dust? I agree with you, this business of identifying sonic attributes of power cords is twilight zone. Don't spend a single dollar on this until you are ready. As for me, I no longer have any stock power cords in my system. | |
| Do you leave your SS amp on all the time? Pro: Leaving any component on all the time tends to keep everything thermally stable and avoid thermal shock: light bulbs fail most of the time when they are first turned on.Con: Some amplifiers (e.g. Krell class A rather than class AB push pull) ... | |
| Phase and time alligned speakers Viridian, Quads and Vandersteens are the speakers I had in mind. Your answer makes sense to me ... that electronics and cables preserve phase information far better than loudspeakers are able to. | |
| Plinius class A vs. class AB sound difference? You owe it to yourself to listen to the Plinius SA 102. | |
| From tubes to solid state. What do you loose... From tubes to solid state, what do you lose? The best explanation I have ever read on this topic said that:Distortion shows up as even harmonics in tube gear, as odd harmonics in SS gear. Even harmonics sound musical, Odd harmonics provide a more ... | |
| Tube amps you have heard with Quad 989 Ivanj,Emphatically not. No honky tonk forwardness in the mid piano octaves with the QUADs. And believe me, I have searched long and hard to find speakers that light my fire.Ed Sawyer,Thanks for the offer. I will try to listen to a pair locally. | |
| Reasonably prices wires/intrconnects There is a survey of the sonics of 12 brands of inexpensive interconnect in the October/November 2002 issue of The Absolute Sound that you might find useful. Includes Audience Maestro, Monster Cable, Siltech, Van den Hul, Straightwire, Kimber, Aud... | |
| Men & Women & Bass Well Zaikesman, at least you didn't call me a vocodor-abusing sequin-hoarding geriatric mannequin. | |
| Does Vandersteen VCC support biwire/biamping Thanks for the info. | |
| CES 2003 - Any Audition/Picture Requests? I am personally interested in the Quad 989s and what will be driving them at CES. I am also interested in the Wolcott presence amplifiers. Undoubtedly these will be used to drive SoundLabs, but maybe they will use them with other speakers as well. | |
| Men & Women & Bass Why do men like T-REX type bass? Simple. It's about POWER. | |
| Electrocompaniet owners If you buy Electrocompaniet, your equipment may not have very good resale value on this website. This is an important consideration for me in purchasing new equipment. | |
| Who is your overall favorite guitarist? Hmmm. How about Julian Bream, Andres Segovia, Pepe Romero, Eduardo Fernandez... |