larryi
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| Tube Amp or Tube Pre Amp I would try a tube integrated amp. An integrated amp is often not that much more than a power amp. With some amps, the integrated amp is essentially a power amp with input jacks, selector knob and a volume control. | |
| ???What's The LEAST Expensive "End Game"Amplifier You've Ever Heard??? For me the least expensive amp I could live with is the Synthesis A40 (costs around $8,000); if I needed more power it would be their A100 amp. Both have built in DACs I could live with. The power amp I currently operate costs about 8.5 times th... | |
| List Of Small Company Tube Amps One of my favorite tube amp makers is Synthesis. They consistently make amps whose sound is WAY beyond one's expectation for the price. My two favorites of their lineup are the integrated amp/DAC combination--A 40 (twin KT66 tubes pwer channel) ... | |
| Tube Amp or Tube Pre Amp By far, the most important choice is the right amp for the particular speaker. The sound of the system will be primarily determined by the amp-speaker matchup. If you want to hear what tubes can do for the sound, start with the proper tube amp f... | |
| Music with Titles that get you to think I don't know why, but I actually own a copy of that Firesign Theater album. | |
| Music with Titles that get you to think Yes, I agree on your Mars Volta preference; I just like the name of “De-loused.” There are some names that strike me as odd or contrary to expectations, such as Sam Cooke’s great civil rights anthem “A Change is Gonna Come.” The name and lyrics ... | |
| Music with Titles that get you to think I can think of two somewhat depressing titles. One is Mars Volta’s “De-loused at the Comatorium” (hard to think of a more degraded human condition) and the Gorillaz’s “Laika Come Home.” | |
| XLO Signature and Reference Interconnects How old are these cables? In their day, many years ago, XLO made some very good cables. The best of them remain good to this day. I still have and use an XLO Limited cable in my system. | |
| Silver spades Silver is a better conductor than gold or copper. Gold is often plated onto other metals because plating is cheap and gold does not oxidize. Silver oxidizes, but, silver oxides are quite conductive too (though not as much as pure silver), so it ... | |
| Open baffle speakers I like both the OB and the closed model of the Songer speaker. The OB was a two way system using their field coil driver as a woofer/midrange coupled to an OB tweeter. The closed box speaker did not have a tweeter so the field coil driver opera... | |
| Open baffle speakers Spatial has some quite different views on OB. They have a model which is open baffle/dipole for the woofers, and claims this is superior to conventional woofers because it reduces room interactions and modes, while it encloses the midrange and tw... | |
| Silver spades I've use the silver WBT spades in the past, but, I did not try to assess the sonic attributes of that choice. They are easy to use, which is what mattered most to me. You need a crimping tool and the right choice of sleeve that goes around the b... | |
| Recommendation Tube Integrated I agree with the poster above who recommended the Synthesis A100 Titan. It is a rich, smooth and natural sounding amp with lots of punch too. I heard 40.2 with that amp or its little brother, the A40 (single pair of KT 66 tubes per channel vs. f... | |
| Pianos Angela Hewitt has also sung the praises of Stuart and Sons pianos made in Australia. That is Australia, not Austria. | |
| Open baffle speakers Bache, Which commercial OB speaker did you hear that you found wanting in bass response? What was it like otherwise? I am surprised by how decent bass can be even with the dipole cancellation and the lack of reinforcement from bass reflex or se... |