justin_time
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| Tube power vs Solid state power, how much is enoug I am sitting firmly on the fences when it comes to tube vs. transistor.Of the many tube amps I've owned, I've yet to find one that is completely satisfying in the bass. The best ones gave me good bass without the depth, tightness, and impact of th... | |
| Jeff Rowland amp owners: What's your pre-amp?? My goal has always been a fully balanced system. At the minimum, it has given a very quiet system and additional gain.I have used the Rowland Consummate as well as the BAT VK5 with Rowland amps in fully balanced mode with great success.If you are ... | |
| BAT vs. Quicksilver If you have a new home, a larger listening room and you are a little short on funds, I think the last thing you want to do is to go around switching amps.The question is do you like the BAT? If you do, the logical thing to do is to sit tight, not ... | |
| What's Your Experience with Digital Switching Amp? Owners of Bel Canto, H2O, JJaz and other switching amps, do you think that switching amps share a family sound?I suspect so. I’ve listened to just a few of these amps with modules from different manufacturers and with some design differences. But ... | |
| BAT vs. Quicksilver I agree with Albertporter about the BATs. Great design, and great sound I might add, but you are stuck with 6C33C-B tubes (me too). And they run so darn hot in the BATs you may think your house is on fire. But you know that. What you may not know ... | |
| What's Your Experience with Digital Switching Amp? QUOTE: "I ... noticed Pat's phone number was listed..." Hi Grk:No trouble at all about you emails. I am sorry I did not provide all the info you needed in the thread. I was mainly interested in discussing my enthusiasm for the sound of the Velluto... | |
| What's Your Experience with Digital Switching Amp? Response to Tracer: "How much is the Velluto?"They cost $2200 with the 250 wpc modules and $2800 with the 500 wpc modules. You can find out more by looking up: http://home.att.net/~analog.research/velluto1.htmlYou can also buy small 100 wpc mono m... | |
| What's Your Experience with Digital Switching Amp? QUOTE: "06-16-05: WrpI'm in the process of audtioning the following DSAs:JJAZ ICEpower stereoAudio Zone AMP-2 monosNuForce Reference 8 monosChannel Islands D-100 monos"Hi wrp,You owe it to yourself to audition the Velluto as well.http://home.att.n... | |
| What's Your Experience with Digital Switching Amp? Hello Fedreams,I believe that it's the way of using the ICE mudules that has evolved. In my Velluto, each ICE module is FULLY ENCASED in a metal box and all leads in and out are treated with ferrite material to eliminate the EMI problems: it works... | |
| What's Your Experience with Digital Switching Amp? Hey Muralman1,Gee, I wished you hadn't said anything about the MIT CVT cables until I've sold them :-). I bought them because they were recommended for the Watts/Puppies (!). The Velluto revealed their flaws pretty ruthlessly. Surprise: the OCOS t... | |
| What's Your Experience with Digital Switching Amp? QUOTE: "Hey Justin time, I like the name. I was an early convert to ICE magic. I owned the eAR, loved it over any solid state amp I had owned. I sold it to Ramy, and later bought H2O signature monoblocks. The improvement was significant. The H2O h... | |
| What's Your Experience with Digital Switching Amp? QUOTE: "I have the Bel Canto eVo 4 amp, which is also a DSA, but based on a Tripath technology. It also sounds wonderfully smooth, and has a purity of tone rarely found in SS amps. When run in bridged mode, it has one of the best, most dynamic and... | |
| What's Your Experience with Digital Switching Amp? QUOTE: "I really enjoyed my Spectron 1, driving a pair of Maggie 1.6's...plenty of power to bring out the bass [the 1.6's need oodles of power]. Drove everything with a tube preamp."Hello again Fatparrot,I am very curious about your set up with th... | |
| Will a Wilson Maxx be possible in a small room Dear Raul,I did try two 12" Velodynes. They did not work well in my small room--what was I thinking?. Each sub had to be near each speaker so placement became a nightmare. They were tried behind me but blending then was far from optimal. And in bo... | |
| Will Maggie 3.6 or 20.1's work in a 121/2 X 21 Rm The short answers are: maybe for the 3.6s and no for the 20.1. Perhaps not what you want to hear but here are the reasons.The problem is with the short axis (12 1/2") of your room. You do not have enough room laterally to place your speakers along... |