larryi
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| tube vs SS preamp I have never never witnessed, either personally or among the many friends with tube gear, a failure of tube gear that lead to damage of a speaker. Most tube failures end in distortion or no sound from the speaker. In a post above, someone mentione... | |
| tube vs SS preamp There is very little danger of a tube preamp failure causing a large signal that would take out a speaker, particularly when the downstream amp is a low to medium powered tube amp. Damage is more likely with a solid state amp, particularly higher ... | |
| Which high power SET As Almarg pointed out, it is not necessarily efficiency, but the impedance curve of the Harbeths that MAY make them incompatible with most SET amps. Most SET amps have a fairly high output impendance compared to other topologies. Push pull amps ca... | |
| New $35K pivoting tonearm I recall that a very rare Air Tangent arm allowed for remotely controlled VTA. I never heard of azimuth being adjustable that way. Kuzma had an arm pillar with a digital readout that made it easy to adjust the arm up or down and get back to a prio... | |
| Which high power SET I doubt that there are many here, or for that matter anywhere, who have heard your particular combination of gear with the three candidate amps. I have only heard the WAVAC and the system sounded quite good so it is a possible choice. I own a low-... | |
| vacuum tube shelf life Czarivey,So sadly true. When I got my current phonostage, a friend gave me pairs of 5751s, Telefunken ECC83s, and Amperex Bugle Boy 12ax7s to try out in place of the RCA blackplates that came with the phonostage. I had the tubes in a small box on ... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? Hi Charles,I have heard TVCs and I do think that they are the best way to implement a passive linestage. I also do wonder if they would be even better if incorporated into an all out active linestage. My main "problem" with TVCs are practical/ergo... | |
| vacuum tube shelf life I currently use Western Electric 348, 349, 310 and 311 tubes. I think they are all over 65 years old. The only current production tubes that I have are EML 2a3 tubes.Any modern tube bought now should easily outlive the purchaser, and perhaps, the ... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Ctsooner,I heard the D40 and I agree that Proac does a very good job with a ribbon tweeter where other manufacturers haven't quite pulled it off. I suppose it is mostly a matter of voicing than any particular technology. I say this because Proac s... | |
| More Tubes = Better Sound "In theory," fewer tubes mean less concern with mismatched tubes, which means less muddled sound. A lot of purist won't even except two output tubes per channel in a parallel single-ended setup for this reason.But, in practice, there are quite a f... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? I agree with Charles and Grannyring, theory notwithstanding, I have found that I like the sound of active linestages in my system. Moreover, I like tube linestages even though they measure poorly compared to solid state, and I currently use and li... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? TBG,To me, the ideal review would be one that extensively describes the operational features of the product (particularly any operational quirks or inconveniences) and physical characteristics and largely dispenses with the flowery praise of the s... | |
| Do you put as much effort into your Car Audio? I do wonder about how difficult it is to integrate a non-OEM audio system into a modern vehicle given the complex electronics and displays. Also, many modern cars have been pretty extensively engineered from the early design stage with the audio s... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? There is nothing wrong with folks here nominating favorites as candidates for consideration as being at the top, but, as Charles1dad said, there is no reason for anyone to accept someone else's "this is best" declaration-at this or ANY level of pe... | |
| Do you put as much effort into your Car Audio? Not as much effor, but a LOT of effort nonetheless. That effort comes in the way of paying for a nice car with a nice OEM system. In making my purchasing decision, I put a lot of weight on how the system sounded and the noise level of the cabin wh... |