lou_setriodes
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| 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,” :) | |
| Qobuz vs. Tidal Anyone using QoBuz or Tidal with a Bluesound Node 2i? Just curious because that’s what I’m using with an Audio-gd NFS-1C DAC. I have Spotify Premium, which to my ears, doesn’t sound too bad at all. Wondering how much better QoBuz will sound? ... | |
| 20 Years? @coltrane1 Ha! rec.audio.high.end, rec.audio.marketplace Audio Trading Times and Audiomart before that I’ve been here since 2001 :) | |
| Solid State Low powered Amplifiers I’ve owned several Fleawatts over the years and have loved them all. I was surprised several years ago to hear Derek say that several of his friends traded in their 300B & 2a3 amps for Fleawatts and never looked back. A few months later ... | |
| What do you think is the best integrated amplifier under 1000 A Tandberg 3012 or 3012A is also a great 100 watt integrated too that will run you $4-500. Also a Creek 5350 SE supposed to be a great sounding unit too. I had the Creek 4330 many years back and it was a very nice sounding unit. | |
| Determining compatibility with amps Single Ended Triode tube amp with high efficiency speakers is a great way to go. You’d be very surprised just how loud a 3 wpc 2A3 amp can get with very efficient speakers > 100 db. But depends on the kind of music you listen too… |