knotscott
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| A Black Box to Solve Everything Tubes for guitar and tubes for hi fi have very different objectives. Audible distortion for a guitar amp is a desirable feature, not so for a hi fi amp. Two different worlds for the same technology. Adding anything in the path of tube gear for hi... | |
| Watt Puppy DIY advise Changing drivers will almost certainly make them sound different. Whether it's an "upgrade" is subjective. With a speaker of this level, I would not suggest such a radical change. It's likely not going to be a plug and play replacement. You m... | |
| Would a real butcher block be going to far? The benefit of end grain is that it’s easier on the knives, so they hold an edge longer. An end grain cutting board is harder to make so costs more. As mentioned, there’s really not much sonic benefit that justifies the extra cost. | |
| Cardas vs Cardas vs Shunyata interconnects If the cables are all new, did you give them any burn in time before critical evaluation? | |
| Buying Used Equipment on the Internet Pardon my ignorance, but what is "TMR"? | |
| Active ATC vs Spendor / Pass Labs I had a lovely demo. of a Pass INT 60/ Spendor D9.2. Had all the musical flow, engagement at all volume levels that I could ever want. A truly impressive demo.... I think your statement says it all. Bird in hand, and all that! | |
| I'm thinking about a low watt tube amplifier? You'll not be happy with an SET and IMHO the push pull design loses much of the "tube magic". Jerry They're not cheap, but have you ever heard a CAT JL amp (push-pull)? | |
| Can you pick out what is what? While possibly interesting, Youtube videos suffer audio degradation that will likely mask subtle differences of the better gear. | |
| A previous discussion included a statement about crossover components. It couldn’t hurt to ask them if the upgrade is still available, or at least what they’d recommend. Otherwise, go your own way...it should still be an upgrade from cheap electrolytics, sand cast resistors, and iron core inductors. Should definitely... | |
| A previous discussion included a statement about crossover components. "Have you ever replaced the caps and resistors in your speakers crossovers, and to your ears did that result in better sound quality?" Yes, and yes. Many times. On a good system it’s pretty audible. It helps reduce/eliminate one of many potenti... | |
| Bridged amps vs stereo vs monoblocks. If you do as jasonbourne71 suggested, and switch the bridged amp back to stereo, and use one channel of each amp per speaker, you may find that it sounds better in an unbridged mono block configuration. You’ll retain the benefit of the separation ... | |
| Used vs new Tube mono amp? - same model It should be fine if the circuits are the same, and you use identical tubes of identical age in each. | |
| Amp for LS 3/5a Falcon Gold Badge FWIW, Stereophile reviewed those speakers a couple of years ago using three different amps. The reviewer like the Line Magnetic LM-518 IA. https://www.stereophile.com/content/falcon-gold-badge-ls35a-loudspeaker-page-2 | |
| Can a system sound too Holographic? @aniwolfe Yeah...if he said, it was too bright, too forward or added an metallic sheen to everything then I could understand that being an issue. But he claims he is trying to get use to it. We shall see lol Audio is a journey that often has ... | |
| Can a system sound too Holographic? If a holographic soundstage is part of the recording, too holographic has never been a problem for me. If the system is generating it, then yes....I suppose too much could happen and would be less desirable, but I can think of worse traits. |