lowtubes
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| How much difference does a phono preamp really make? Straight to your question, huge difference. | |
| warmest speaker cables you've heard? I would easily recommend MIT 750 or Cardas Quadlink 5C. | |
| Class D amps seem poised to take over. Then what? I purchased well regarded, highly recommend and reviewed Class D mono amps 1,000 watts of power and had high expectations but the Class D amps did not have the life, dimensionality, transparency and immediacy that my Class A SS amps had. With the ... | |
| Class D amps seem poised to take over. Then what? I’ve tried some high level class D amps and none have sounded better than my Class A Threshold amps. | |
| Tubes for Magnepan’s. Hello, I highly do not recommend tubes on Magnepan’s unless you’re willing to go through a lot to make it sound very good. There are very few times where tubes will sound good on Magnepan’s but in my experience most of the time solid state class A... | |
| What do $2500 speaker cables sound like? Hello, I have quite a bit of hifi components, amps, preamps, turntables, and many hi-end cables. I usually keep the cables I’ve purchased throughout the years in the event I need them in the future. Usually, the difference between a $200 cable a... | |
| If your were to assemble a vintage system ? Zavato, If you ask me about a vintage system and if music is #1 on the criteria, I would recommend you pick up a Fisher tube integrated amp or a Fisher tube receiver. There are many models to choose from and all are great sounding. IMO, you will ... | |
| The Absolute Sound vs Pleasing Sound Hello Russ69, I’ve been through the same situation as you. I have 3 systems in my home. One system is 200 watt SS class A mono amps into Electrostats and two other setups are tube amps, EL34 100 watt and mono 18 watt 300b amps into conventional s... | |
| rule of thumb: how long do you leave a tube preamp on versus turning it off then back on? I’ve owned tube preamp for 25-30yrs now. Do not worry about your tubes, they will last a lot longer than you think. I use mostly expensive highly sought after vintage tubes in my preamps and in all these yrs, only 1 tube has went bad. I use 20 tub... | |
| What makes speaker's sound big? Hello Martin, I just read your post and haven’t gone through the responses. Excuse me if I may repeat something already mentioned. I’ve been in this hobby for 25-30yrs. So one of the things I offer is experience. The design of the speaker is what ... | |
| My list of tweaks and the verdict Wow, With the tube rolling you didn’t hear any difference? I question your hearing or your equipment or the tubes that you were rolling. | |
| Single driver speakers. Are they worth considering ? The Rethm speakers I’m referring to are the current version that does not use the Lowther drivers as mentioned in the post above. I do not know the brand of driver that is being used, but there were none of the issues that jdal mentioned in his po... | |
| Single driver speakers. Are they worth considering ? The best single driver speakers I’ve heard are the Rethm. | |
| What s the best Class A integrated tube amp over 80W I’ve heard the VT100 a few times but never biased it so I do not know the process. But one of the tube amps I have is a Canary 301 mk 2. To bias the Canary, I need to flip the amp and remove the bottom cover. Then with a volt meter, put the probes... | |
| What s the best Class A integrated tube amp over 80W Just another thing to think about when we compare new technology to older designs. The best things that were ever created to make music sound its best were invented very long ago, Vacuum tubes, LPs and Reel to Reels. |