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| Devialet for Wilson Audio Sasha 2 Speakers I heard them with Momentum amps and the combination sounded quite good. I cannot recall what speakers I heard with the Devialet; the sound was not bad, but, not that engaging either. I terms of looks, small packaging and flexibility, the Deviale... | |
| SET 45 Amp Driving Dynamic Speakers I think that most often people who are SET fans arrive at that point after going through a range of other choices. Low-powered SETs tend to be an end-point only after a long search because it takes some experience finding the relatively few speak... | |
| Beyond Ayre Pass and Rowland My personal reaction to most of the better solid state gear-Soulution, Constellation, MBL, etc., is that they sound very good and do not have the bad qualities ascribed to solid state (grainy, harsh). While I cannot point out anything obviously w... | |
| SET 45 Amp Driving Dynamic Speakers Inna,Some other integrated amps to consider include something from Vinni Rossi (can be configured in MANY different ways, including tube stages) and Lavardin and LFD integrated amps (simple, really nice sounding medium power integrated amps). I'v... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences I am pretty much a tube electronics person. My current phonostage is a Viva Fono, which is thoroughly a tube unit, including tube rectification. But, if I had a reasonable opportunity, I would get a particular solid state phonostage that I heard... | |
| Joule Electra preamps and amps. What is your impression? OTL amps tend to have a high output impedance. That means that, if they are matched with low impedance speakers, particularly ones with an impedance curve with wide swings up and down, the frequency response of the speaker could vary quite a bit.... | |
| SET 45 Amp Driving Dynamic Speakers To me, having an amp that sounds not as good as the 45 SET (if that is one's preferred sound) when playing at the regular volume one listens at, just to have the capability of delivering clean sound at extreme peaks when listening at higher levels... | |
| SET 45 Amp Driving Dynamic Speakers I am a big fan of the 45 tube. I have heard it used in parallel single-ended, pushpull (I own a pushpull 45 amp) and in single output tube single-ended configuration. It delivers a very punchy, clear and detailed sound when operated well within ... | |
| Joule Electra preamps and amps. What is your impression? I like the LAP150 linestage for its warmish tonality without sounding murky or slow. I also have heard and liked very much their OTL amps. These too are on the warm side, particularly for OTL amps, which still manage to retain much of the genre'... | |
| The Best & Rarest of all Stereo Gear Sao Win made a few unusual cartridges, such as, a field effect transistor cartridge. The signal generating element of the cartridge was a transistor: the gate element being a permanently charged electret attached to the cantilever which controlle... | |
| 2A3 Tube Opinions Arthur,There are a lot of different 300B amps out there that sound better, to me, than the Sophia, but, decent amps are somewhat costly because they employ quite expensive output transformers.Among the most common low-powered triode tube types--th... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences One more thing to check, particularly if "mistracking" happens only on a few recordings, is to see if that problem might just be the recording microphone overloading. I noticed such a problem with one record where I assumed the problem was eithe... | |
| 2A3 Tube Opinions I find that, among the low-powered triodes, the 2a3 is one of the leaner sounding tubes. It does not deliver either the punch or the weight that most other tubes deliver. I have run a number of new as well as old stock 2a3s in my Audio Note Kage... | |
| Calling all room treatment type specialists... At a show, I heard a couple of nice sounding setups that used the GIK Acoustic panels. The print transfers to the fabric of the panels looked pretty good. Their panels are not that expensive.I believe other companies that make acoustic treatment... | |
| Mellow speakers DeVore makes some very nice, not at all harsh, floorstanders that are more cat-friendly than the Vandersteens. Their speakers sound very good and are relatively easy to drive.Although not necessarily in the "mellow" and warm camp, I like speakers... |