lostbears
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| Sonus Faber Olympica II Speakers The sound of all three is very similar. The 3 has a little more bass than the others. The 2 is slightly more detailed than the 1. While the 1 is slightly warmer than the 2. It would all depend on the rest of you system. I think they would be fine... | |
| Advice about what to do with not-needed tubes? I would just keep them if you might buy another tube preamp in the future. How many tubes are you talking about? What preamp was it that you had a problem with? Since the buzz Was coming from one channel, did you try swapping the tubes to the oth... | |
| vandersteen Quatro or sonus faber elipsa The original Elipsa or the current Elipsa SE (Red)? I own an Audio Research Ref 110 and a pair of the Elipsa SEs. This is a wonderful combination.What type of music do you listen to? If it is hard rock I would tend toward the vandersteen Quatros. ... | |
| Diavelet 200 and Sonus Faber Cremona Audio Research is an excellent match with Sonus Faber. I own Elipsa SE Reds {the baby strads} and use an Audio Research Ref 110 to drive them. The sound is exquisite. My choice for a solid state amp would probably be a Pass 30.8. I had a Jolida ... | |
| Crimson 200's The Pass 30.8 is a very nice amp. I have not heard the Carver but I own a ARC Ref tube amp. I can tell you that Power tubes will not last 50 years. They will last 2000 to maybe 4000 hours, it depends on the tube. Signal or small tubes will last m... | |
| Amps for Egglestonworks Andra II or Sophia 2 I recently went on the quest for new speakers. I can not imagine buying a pair of speakers of that caliber without listening first. Speakers can sound so different in different systems. Like you I tend to buy used as I just can't afford what I l... | |
| What are used tubes worth ? Why not look what the matching numbers are and order a new matching tube? Then you would have a backup set. I would email Jim Mcshane for the new tube. Are you sure though that they are the original tubes and only have 800 to 1000 hours? If that... | |
| Pass Labs XA60.5 with Magnepan You would be fine. Look at the spec sheet on the Pass website. Pass underrates the power of their amps. The 60.5 doesn't even leave class A until 120 watts into 4 ohms. A friend of mine is driving a pair of 3.7i and a pair of bass panels with 60... | |
| Speakers to audition at AXPONA 2015 You might want to check out the Sonus Faber / Audio Research rooms on the top floor. I thought both the Venere 3 and Olympica 2 were very musical sounding. After a long search for new speakers I just purchased a pair of their Elipsa SE or Red. | |
| Adcom 515 verse Monster 3600 or 2600 power conditi I have a Furman Elite 15 pfi which replaced an Adcom 515 for my source components. My amp is plugged straight into the wall. In my system {all tube} the Furman sounds much better than the Adcom. Also the two cord deal on the Adcom is a bit of a p... | |
| NAS backup Question This was a concern I had when I looked at a NAS. As I understand it the Synology is one of the few NAS that does not use a proprietary file system. I wanted to be able to pull a drive from the NAS and put in in my external drive case if I wanted.... | |
| ARC D-115 use half of tubes I had a mk1 version as I remember. It was a very nice sounding amp but seemed to run out of power very easily. Actually I sold the amp to a buddy who I believe still has it packed away somewhere. I had a pair of monitor type speakers at that time... | |
| Audio Research VT 100 MKIII The VT100 mk3 is not a bad amp. I owned a mk3 for a few years. I never had any problems with it other then a tube blew a resistor once, not a big deal. I bought it used from my ARC dealer because I needed to send my V70 back to ARC. My plan was t... | |
| ARC D-115 use half of tubes It is a very bad idea. You do not mention what speakers you have or how efficient they are. A 100 watts is not huge or even large for a push pull type tube amp. You want some headroom so the amp doesn't start clipping all the time. But if you th... | |
| Audio Research Ref 1 compared to Ref 2 mkII The Ref 2 mk2 is still a very nice preamp, don't get me wrong. But there have been a lot of Ref preamps since then. Audio Research has released the Ref 3, 3LE, 5, Anniversary Edition, 10 and 5se. all have been an improvement to one degree or anot... |