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| Opinions on Wyred 4 Sound ICE amps OK, please keep us posted. | |
| pass labs xa30 to valve amplifier. Well, I wish you lived near Florida. I own the Cary SLI-80 F1 and have been kicking around the idea to try an XA30.5I guess the grass is always greener on the other side. Anyway good luck, I hear OTL tubes sound great, but my speakers are 4 Ohm 92... | |
| Amplifier current draw/wattage You can get a watt meter at Home Depot for about $20 that will give you a digital readout. It also reports current drawn, voltage, freq. and other cool stuff. I use mine to very accurately read idle watts being used on various equipment. If you pl... | |
| Missing Stereophile Issues??? Why don't you see if there is an on-line issue you can subscribe to? | |
| Cary SLI-80 Thoughts? All I can say is that I did the same thing you are doing. I spent a lot of time researching and went with the Cary. In that price range (sig. version) you will be very happy. Also I am running EL34's in triode (about only 25 watts) and it still so... | |
| Voltage Level at speaker terminals Interesting thread, but how can you be measuring current if the cartridge is not on the record? | |
| Pre-amp suggestions for Thiel 2.4/Pass Labs XA30.5 Unless you think the amp is underpowered all the time, meaning that the needle is always moving... then don't you touch that amp! Kidding of course, but it's a fine amp and probably stays in Class A most of the time. Look into the W4S STP-SE pream... | |
| Opinions: PBN Montana speakers model xps signatu As long as you think your room is large enough for them, then keep em'. I own the XP-1 Sig. and I love them. I sold my Maggie 20.1 for them. They look beautiful and sound even better. They are neutral sounding, with no frequencies showing off, but... | |
| Wilson Sophia vs Aerial 7/9 Polk432... There aren't a lot of Hi-fi stores out there and since I live close to Tampa I would appreciate knowing why the warning? Did you know/experience something we should all know? If you wish to "private message" then jkoestner@cfl.rr.com pl... | |
| speaker wiring At the cost of your speaker cable, stick with just one and jump them. If you put out the cash for 2 more pairs and you will probably not hear a big (if any... honestly) difference you will regret the purchase. Sometimes we itch to spend on our hob... | |
| REVEL Salon2s - What Amp is needed? Subs needed? Irv has given you some great advice, I use a Velodyne DD15 , but I would run the Revels full range to avoid sending the signal through another crossover network. | |
| Amp, fully balanced, with sub via speaker inputs Well I am using a W4S amp MC-1000/500 with a Velodyne DD15 to the speaker level inputs and it works OK. I called W4S to ask them first and they said that the Velodyne uses a floating ground of about 100 Ohms. I don't know about the REL. Look into ... | |
| Top 10 Snafus to avoid when building a good rig Thinking that if something is good, then more of it is better. For example... brass weights, thickness of cables, size of the speakers, watts/channel, maple, isolation devices... in fact the only thing that doesn't fit this is money :-) | |
| Tube DAC Conundrum To answer those questions, the tubes are 6N1P from Russia. They're not expensive to get more (the Blacknote DAC30 comes from Italy). I usually turn it on in the afternoon and off just before bedtime. I think I will stick with that process as it th... | |
| Tube DAC Conundrum Yes Onhwy61,A test does seem the logical thing to do. I will do just that. Thanks all. |