lou_setriodes
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| I need a little help from a UK, German, Greek or Israel member. I live in Israel, I can send them a message for you. But my thinking is that if they only accept messages from those 4 countries, perhaps they might only wish to ship to those 4 countries? Send me a private message with their information and wha... | |
| Korneff or similar 45 Alan used to sell tubes on eBay and a good friend of his, a retired long time McIntosh engineer, from time to time would make beautiful custom amps mods from organ amps. Jim Edmunds I think his name was, and about 15 years ago or so, I bought an a... | |
| Korneff or similar 45 Once upon a time I owned a very early Jeff Korneff 6BQ5 SE amp that was amazing. Years later, when it came time to sell it, I was in contact with Jeff Korneff and he asked me not to describe it as a Korneff amp, but as an early Jeff Korneff desig... | |
| Help me identify an amp Carlsbad2 - Absolutely Not!!! Never ever do that with vintage tube gear unless you want to risk replacing an expensive and hard to find transformer. Bring up the voltage slowly on a variac is the right thing to do. so it may be a GSI modified... | |
| Speaker List narrowed down… @grislybutter - apparently so :) @aj523 - I’m not shaming anyone here, your doing that all by yourself. More power to you that you can spend $25K on speakers, I think that’s great. Likewise, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with what I said... | |
| Speaker List narrowed down… $25K is a lot of $$$ for speakers. You could buy a great pair of used speakers for much much less and commission someone to refinish them in high gloss white and they would look brand new. | |
| Personal Turntable Evolution Updated Turntable Journey: 1. Dual 1225 2. Bang & Olufsen RX w/MMC5 cartridge 3. Denon DP59L 4. Rega Planar 3 with Accutex MM cartridge 5. Kenwood KD-5070 w/Audio Technica cartridge 6. Harman Kardon T45 w/Ortofon OA-30 cartridge 7. Thorens TD... | |
| Amps that don’t impersonate space heaters. Go check out Derek Sanderson’s Fleawatt amps, you’ll be very surprised. When I A/B’d it against a 6B4G SET amp, I had trouble justifying tubes, it just made no sense in running tubes when I listened to it…. | |
| Decisions, decisions, decisions Just checked quickly on US Audiomart and for about $1000-1200 you could get: 1. A Tandberg stack - amp & preamp; 2. Aragon 2004 & 24K preamp; 3. Muse 100 amp & Morrison Elad preamp; 4. B&K M200 monos, Threshold CAS2 or Mona... | |
| Decisions, decisions, decisions If it were me, (and admittedly I am not familiar with all the different upgrades of Vandersteen 2CI, 2CE, etc), I would look to upgrade both electronics and speakers and buy used as you can save quite a bundle on used gear. The Adcom GFA2 is an o... | |
| Should we care if a piece of equipment comes from a pet-free, kid-free, smoke-free home? grislybutter My attempt at rhyming humor. I wrote: ”I think ending future ads with this might draw some extra interest? What do you think? “Stereo equipment in a Smoke free, Woke Free, Hot Trophy-wife home,” :) I figured people might wan... | |
| Would like to try a tube preamp after years of solid state and hybrid I heard both the SP-6B and the SP8 at different times and on different systems. The person who owned the 6B had also said it was the best of the SP6’s (SP6A - SP6E). I also read from the later Roger Modjewski (Music Reference) in his tech days b... | |
| Would like to try a tube preamp after years of solid state and hybrid Charley Horse - I like what you’ve accumulated in terms of audio gear. It’s all of a certain vintage and all very good sounding, without that next level price tag and performance. All good bang for the buck gear, which is where I usually have alwa... | |
| Would like to try a tube preamp after years of solid state and hybrid Charlie Horse - What I have not seen anyone ask here is this - What ICs do you use between amp and preamp? A most critical question to ask, IMHO. With over 40 years in this hobby, (including a few selling audio gear at retail), I have found that... | |
| Should we care if a piece of equipment comes from a pet-free, kid-free, smoke-free home? I think ending future ads with this might draw some extra interest? What do you think? “Stereo equipment in a Smoke free, Woke Free, Hot Trophy-wife home,” :) |