knotscott
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| 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. | |
| Burn in vs perception Drivers with a physical suspension benefit from movement and time played when they’re new. After several hours of flexing, they tend to achieve something closer to their rated specs, and therefore the intended response. Similarly, stylus suspensi... | |
| FerroFluid aging It’s easy enough to replace FF if you can open the tweeters up. Did it with my Seas H400 tweeters a couple of years ago, and was surprised that it made an audible improvement once replaced. Once the voice coil is separated from the magnet, take a... | |
| What's up with the price of Vintage equipment? I’ve had the same observations....stuff that simply wasn’t very well regarded back in the day, now has a cult following and sells for a premium. Some of it was stuff I started with. Maybe it sounds better as the caps degrade and resistor measureme... | |
| Added A Second Subwoofer To System You most likely reduced some resonance that you were perceiving as additional volume. It's unlikely that the volume of the primary content itself is reduced. | |
| Where did the term "mono block" originate? Not sure of the origin, but the term itself is my 2nd favorite part of having mono blocks. 😎 | |
| Hybrid amplifiers Ss/tube, any good? Definitely others have offered tube/SS hybrids. I know that Luxman had the LV105 tube/SS hybrid integrated amp in the 80s. New York Audio Labs has the Moscode 300 tube/SS hybrid power amp, and I’m pretty sure that Vincent offers one now. I’m sure ... |