lou_setriodes
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| Amps from the 1980's -- What gear holds up sonically? Reliably? Funny, I'm finding myself squarely stuck in the 80's when it comes to audio gear and rather enjoying it. Been a classic B&K guy for a long time as this is my 4th B&K amp (2 - ST140's, an EX442 Sonata & now an ST202), but would love to... | |
| Personal Preamp Evolution Latest Update: Not much here, since the mid 80's I've had the following:Luxman C-120AAcoustat TNPMusic Reference RM-5 (classic silver finish)Dyna PAS 2 Music Reference RM-5 mk II (got the RM5 upgraded)Dyna PAS 3Hegeman Hapi 2Superphon Revelation... | |
| Personal Tuner Evolution Almost 4 years later - Tuner Update:1. Harman Kardon 330C rec'r2. Mitsubishi DA-R8 rec'r3. McIntosh MR-714. Sansui TU-7175. Pioneer TX-98006. Dyanco FM-37. Luxman T-1108. Luxman T-4009. McIntosh 1900 rec'r10. Yamaha CT-81011. Quad FM-4 (din output... | |
| Since my sabbatical Hi rhljazz,What does something like a streamer and Tidal Subscription cost? Is that anything like a Squeeze Box? I'm very old school myself with a vinyl, CD, and Cassette collection - no 8 tracks though - Ha! I've noticed that since I got rid o... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. I realize I'm only on pg 7 of this wonderful blog, but I must chime in.Dear Mr. Modjeski,Thank you so much for taking all of this time to provide such great information for all of us. Your honesty and humility is so refreshing and the graceful wa... | |
| Which Amp to complete my system? I totally agree with you analogluvr and I'm a huge fan of EL84 amps. I used to sell Klipsch at retail many years ago (early 90's) and we always had them featured with a high powered Yamaha or Denon receiver and I hated them. Then I bought a pair... | |
| Which Amp to complete my system? You really want to hear what those LaScala's can do? Put them on a low powered SET amp like a 2A3 or 45. Case Closed. | |
| Since my sabbatical What is the cost to refurbish the CAL Icon? For those monies, what could you get? After the refurbish, will it have a new laser and last for a long time? I had a CAL DX2 a few years ago that I really liked and also have an Oppo DV970. It's c... | |
| Affordable integrated pure class A? A really great sounding inexpensive integrated is a Tandberg TIA3012. It’ll set you back $300-350 and is heavily biased into class A as it runs very warm to the touch. I had one for a few years and loved it. Kept it on all the time with about 4... | |
| Looking to get into tubes on the cheap I just picked up a GemTune GS-01 tube integrated that runs EL34’s in SE Ultralinear mode for 8 wpc. It came with an upgraded Alps Blue Velvet volume pot and TungSol 6SL7’s and an SED winged C 5U4 rectifier tube as well. With my speakers, I think ... | |
| Movies with... In The Conversation, Gene Hackman had a mono tube amp with a horn mono speaker, was a long time ago since I saw it.Just saw Copland the other night and it looked like a Thorens TD125 that Stallone was playing an album on | |
| best preamps Go get a Stereophile magazine in April or October, their Recommended Components issues, and you can see what Stereophile feels that are the best preamps now. This list doesn’t take into account older preamps, only current offerings. The newest is ... | |
| Treated my interconnects with Deoxit D5 today I bought Tweek years ago, it evaporated in like a year or two, even though it was sealed tightly | |
| Rules for Trading & Best Trading Experience No one gets hurt with my trade rules and it keeps the hobby fun as it should be.The amp for the speakers trade, we both had known each other for years although never met, kind of audio pen pals. I shipped the amp to IN, he shipped the speakers to... | |
| Have you ever downgraded deliberately? First off, what amp was on those Apogees? Something very serious like a Krell, Threshold or Levinson? The store I worked at back in the day sold Apogees running with Krells, it was the only thing that would run them. They need lots of current, ... |