larryi
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| What are we going to do about Tele 12AU7 prices What prices are you seeing? They don't appear to be that hefty in price, at least compared to real old stock Telefunken ECC803S (12AX7) which now go for around $1300 each. In the right circuit, these are all very long-lived tubes, so you might b... | |
| SME 309 HTA Key. Does anybody know how to get one or an alternative? A Torx head is not the same as a hex head. A hex screw has a six sided depression, while the Torx depression has a 6-sided star shape.From the instruction manual danmar posted, you are looking for a common allen hex driver. Get a metric set with... | |
| Tang Band 2145 in action How did you arrive at the Avantgarde Duo as the only better system? I hope it wasn't via listening to a youtube video. I like that system, but, I don't think it would be universally loved by horn aficionados. Also, how did you arrive at that pa... | |
| You own a store, you sell 2 brands, which? Audio Note (because you would have a full range of source, amplification and speakers)Western Electric (some of the very best speaker components and great amplifiers) | |
| SET the best? Not necessarily. I own two low-powered pushpull amps (both custom builds) and a very good SET amp (Audio Note Kageki), and even limiting the analysis to my personal taste, my particular room and my system, I cannot say that any particular amp is ... | |
| Tang Band 2145 in action To me, the big takeaway from this discussion is the importance of using drivers that permit the crossover points being moved out of the heart of the midrange. I've heard one way, two way and three-way systems utilizing wide range drivers that per... | |
| Tang Band 2145 in action I am very much a fan of wide-band drivers, particularly in systems employing them in multi-way systems where the wideband driver covers a very substantial part of the frequency range.But, even among fans of this type of speaker, there is no consen... | |
| Tang Band 2145 in action I don't think that the posted videos show problems with the speaker; I don't think it shows any merit to them either. It is simply the case that you cannot discern anything about the sound of speakers from a video. If someone is listening to the... | |
| Biggest "bang for the buck" audio gear you have owned(in your history)? The biggest improvement I made, and not for killer dollars, was when I bought my first pair of serious speakers--Magneplanar MG -I. | |
| Tang Band 2145 in action "revelatory"I can understand the enthusiasm of someone hearing a different kind of sound from speakers that are not conventional boxes. This can be hearing a good horn-based system for the first time, hearing a Walsh bending wave driver, an electr... | |
| shielded vs unshielded pros and cons? Who knows where noise can intrude in a system. I recently talked with a repair person for a local shop who had to run down RFI problems in a system. It turns out that the long speaker cables were acting as an antenna and injected noise into the ... | |
| SUT Advice - Which Ones Are The Best? My phono stage came with a built in SUT, so I haven't fooled around much with different SUT. I tried a super expensive Audio Note SUT feeding the phono stage in my preamp, but, I could never sufficiently ameliorate hum, so I haven't used that bui... | |
| Tang Band 2145 in action It is great to hear about someone discovering something that is, for this person, new and exciting. But, it is unfair to declare that everyone else is ignorant, a fool for spending on something else, or a victim of a corrupt society because they ... | |
| shielded vs unshielded pros and cons? Many years ago, I tried the shielded and unshielded version of otherwise identical Kimber cable between my tonearm and phono stage. At this very noise sensitive location, noise intruded with the unshielded cable, but the sound was better—more liv... | |
| Tang Band 2145 in action For my taste, the 756 with a tweeter is considerably better and more versatile (sounds good with more types of music) than the 755. |