kevziek
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| Old Classic Receivers: A Mistake to Buy? Audiobeer,Who is the rebuilder of the 70's classics? Let us know. | |
| Review: Bryston 4B-ST Amplifier Sorry, but the 4BST is NOT that good sounding an amp. I did extensive comparisons of it with McCormack DNA225, McCormack DNA-1 Rev. A, McIntosh 352 solid state, and various tube amps.The Bryston has a bright, piercing quality in the lower treble. ... | |
| Tubes Do It -- Transistors Don't. An update. My friend who borrowed the X-350 and raved about it, said that it still lacked the naturalness and realness of tubes. He also just installed a dedicated line (10 g.) and is astounded with the improvements. His MC2000 now sounds more dyn... | |
| Tubes Do It -- Transistors Don't. By the way, LIQUID does not have to mean colored or smoothed over. LIQUID to me describes a quality in tubes that is a certain form of transparency, where an instrument's attack and sound has a freeness to it, a clarity. A sound that has an aliven... | |
| Tubes Do It -- Transistors Don't. Asa, your well-spoken comments on "SPACE" are helping us get closer to defining some very important tube / transistor differences.When you say the Pass amp will make "leading transients possess a certain dryness", I interpret this as follows: When... | |
| Tubes Do It -- Transistors Don't. The accuracy thing bugs me. Nothing out there is accurate. Every amp presents a facsimile of the musical event, and none is true to it. Some of the SS people just want to push the "science" thing, but it's all for naught.Again, measurements basica... | |
| McCormack Preamp??? I briefly had a new RLD-1 when they first came out. I didn't like it. To be fair, I don't know if it was sufficiently burned in. I threw a tuner on it for 72 hours, and thought it would be sufficient time to give a good indication of what it would... | |
| Tubes Do It -- Transistors Don't. Muralman, strangely, I never seriously considered a tube CD player, thinking this was the ultimate use of tubes as coloration devices. Perhaps my thinking was awry. Which CD player you have?I do realize the majority of recordings undergo a mixing ... | |
| Tubes Do It -- Transistors Don't. BWHITE, you're right. How short-sided of me to ignore the power differences of the MC-2000 & the X-350. My friend w/the MC-2000 complained of how it was unable to deal w/ the complexities of full-scale, loud passages. Of course -- it don't hav... | |
| Alignment Protractors I have a DB alignment protractor that was used a couple of times and been sitting in storage all these years. If someone wants it, make me a reasonable offer. No turntable, I have no use for it. | |
| Mosfet amps A true compromise betw. tubes and SS? If MOS FETs are so superior, why would AYRE, who used them in their earlier amps, now prefer bipolars for their latest design? Which sound pretty good, at least in a store audition.MOS-FETS, bipolars -- listen to each amp and judge it on its own m... | |
| Opinions on McIntosh CD Players? My friend had a 7007 which kept going and going..... We both thought it sounded very good, but when I got a Theta DAC and SFT-1 transport, it was clear that it was significantly sonically inferior. Nice machine, but I wouldn't buy it used unless i... | |
| Audiogoners, I love you........ I knew some of the familiar names would respond. Hi - Garfish, Albertporter, Sean, Ligj, Rosstaman.Sean, your reference to a "family" and a "community" is right on. That's the ambience you get here. Sean, you must be near the top of the list of th... | |
| Tubes? Transistors? Which are better? In my experience, solid state does not sound as musical as tubes. On a very basic level, tubes sound more like the instruments sound. SS is thinner, flatter, less fleshed out, less dimensional, less body, less harmonic structure. I don't care anym... | |
| power tubes for ARC VT130? I don't know how they'd be in your VT-130, but in my VT-100, I love the ElectroHarmonix 6550s. Depending on your taste, if you like a real laid back sound, they might not be to your liking. I tried Svetlana KT88s in the VT-100, and I was not impre... |