larryi
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| Different Tubes and general purpose? Tube gear manufacturers tend to supply their products with decent sounding, but lower cost tubes that they can procure a large enough supply to fulfill new orders and to have backup tubes for customers wanting them to supply replacement tubes. Av... | |
| Brighteyes or Conor Oberst recordings that are the least garage band-y I like, for both musical content and sound quality: "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning." | |
| Moving tube equipment If you are moving it yourself, and presumably being careful, there is no problem with leaving the tubes in the amp. Removal is a precaution when the amps will be in the hands of uncaring strangers; that kind of handling can be brutal--dropped box... | |
| Cube Audio Nenuphar Single Driver Speaker (10 inch) TQWT Enclosure I have owned and used both meshplate and solid plate 2a3s from EML. I like both types. I ran a pair per channel in parallel single-ended configuration (Audio Note Kageki amps). Both pairs lasted a decent amount of time, although the meshplate w... | |
| If you want to use omni's you need a lot of room. The "theory" is that omnis are actually easier to locate because they spread sound about the room more evenly and the location of the listener between the speakers is not as critical. In my own listening, I find that one does not have to be so ti... | |
| Why Does CD Sound So Good? If you have a large collection of CDs, the main reason to rip them and put them on a server is accessibility. How do you listen to 1100 classical CDs?, someone asked: the answer is rip them. It is so much easier to scroll a large collection whe... | |
| Power Amplifiers I have a "new" amp that is built mostly from very old parts and a design that was around since the 1940's. It is essentially two Western Electric 133a amplifiers on a single chassis. It has original Western Electric input and output transformers... | |
| Best Tonearm for Thorens TD-124. A well reconditioned 124 is a great table deserving of whatever top end arm one takes a fancy to. I don't think it favors, or is synergistic with any particular arm. My local dealer, who recommends this table for some really high end systems, lik... | |
| Cube Audio Nenuphar Single Driver Speaker (10 inch) TQWT Enclosure I am not surprised that people report good results with SET 2a3 and 300b amps. I generally do find that most people overestimate the amount of power they really need. For the vast majority of time, one listens at levels where a watt or two is en... | |
| Cube Audio Nenuphar Single Driver Speaker (10 inch) TQWT Enclosure At 92 db/w efficiency, whether or not something like a single-ended 300b or other small triode will work depends a lot on how loud you like to play the system. With most single driver systems, you have the BIG advantage of the speakers sounding r... | |
| Rethm Maargra Speaker: High efficiency, very easy impedance, built for SET amps. Have you heard them yourself George? I have not heard the Maargra, but I have heard the cheaper Bhaava (also with fullrange driver and powered woofers), and I thought it was very good for the money. It probably doesn't hurt that the Bhaava is qu... | |
| Cube Audio Nenuphar Single Driver Speaker (10 inch) TQWT Enclosure Has anyone here heard the Cube Audio speakers with the active subwoofers? I am wondering what is gained and what is lost by that approach. I am not a bass freak myself, and I was not particularly concerned with the bass I heard from the Nenuphar... | |
| PROAC D48R Bass Booming Is it really the case where the speakers sound great with most recordings, but is too boomy for some? Could it be that it is still a bit boomy with most recordings, but not so troublesome? I ask because any sort of permanent fix to reduce the bo... | |
| Cube Audio Nenuphar Single Driver Speaker (10 inch) TQWT Enclosure I am wondering who else has heard various single driver systems and can compare the results. I would love to hear something like the big AER system with the huge back-load horn and front wave-guide horn. I know that Classic Audio has a field coi... | |
| You could work for any manufacturer, past or present... I would be sitting next to 4crowme at Western Electric. They were at the cutting edge of everything--speaker design, acoustics, amplification, radio, electric parts and tubes, you name it.geoffkait, THAT is very funny. |