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| How to tell if Raidho ribbon tweeter is damaged? "retightened by heat gun" Yikes! So it's just like tightening the mylar skin on RC balsa airplanes then - right? The benefit of RC airplanes, when you screw up, you just cut another piece and heat tack it on; on a $10K speaker, eeeeh, embarking... | |
| Amp craftmanship/Quality In my first "nice" system which consists of a Pass Labs X0.2 3-box arrangement front end, and a pair of Aleph 1.2 mono's (200 wpc Class A), plus a Nakamichi Dragon CD Changer, which are all about 20 years old now; all of my equipment runs like a t... | |
| Best Way To Maximize Preamp Tube Life? Man, a fella can learn a thing or two off this forum. If you don't want to worry about tubes forever, see if you can home audition a Pass Labs preamp, which has that inviting midrange bloom, smoothness of a tube amp, and that lit from within soun... | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics Less than 30 posts... Hmmm :(Tweaks... There is no doubt that the core components are the foundation of a system. Is there still something that is locked away in the core components that can be exposed? I say yes. And to what degree, I say a... | |
| The smallest tube amp Man, that little devil is expensive. | |
| How long does Class A have? I seem to notice that equipment in the "hifi" world that sounds good, tends to stick around for a long time. Vinyl records with the right combo of equipment sounds good, and fill that niche for carrying on the torch of nostalgia. Tube amps survi... | |
| To Stream or not to Stream Before you drop some serious coin on the ability to stream, as a less expensive solution, how about this bluetooth streaming device from McIntosh... This MB20 looks cool. https://www.mcintoshlabs.com/products/media-streamers/MB20Looks like the p... | |
| D’agostino preamp - unfortunate its SS? D.A. audio equipment and tube sound…. Hmmmm…. I’m guessing this sounds fast, deep bass, forward, with midrange bloom so to speak…. In my limited experience, this would be something like any big Krell amp, connected to some big Apogee speakers, wit... | |
| What's your dream speaker? Let's see here... broken into two categories, here goes: 1. Old School - Von Schweikert VR-10 Mk II2. New School - Von Schweikert Ultra 11 | |
| As you have moved on, are there any items you remember fondly...or most fondly? Sonic Frontiers Power 3 Mono Amps, 220 WPC - Pretty awesomeJM Lab Mini Utopia - My first pair, woah... Much better than KEF Ref 1sAdcom GFP-750 Preamp - It was pretty good...Sonic Frontiers Line 2 - Much better than Adcom...Pass Labs Aleph 5 - My... | |
| Class D amps seem poised to take over. Then what? When I think Class D, I automatically think of the good stuff like Devialet, Linn Amps, and Bryston (sp?) amps. I have a very nice pair of Audio Research DS450M monos that I really like. These are fairly powerful, meaning 450 wpc into 8 and 650 ... | |
| Class A amplifiers Vintage amps are cool. I listened to my first Levinson ML9 (100 wpc, Class A) connected to a monster sized pair of Apogee flat panel speakers. Woooweee, that amp and those speakers were a match made in heaven. The thing about though is that an ... | |
| Complete Proprietary Systems Krell... Sort of, and by this I mean that between the line stage and input from a CD player/streamer including output to an amplifier, Krell uses a proprietary connection system called CAST. It's an acronym for something... This connection syst... | |
| T+A PA 3100HV vs Pass Labs X350.8 86 dB sensitive speakers in that 4 to 6 ohm range, and a good sized floor stander at that. I bet that Revel speaker needs a high current amp to drive it. From my *general* listening experience, Pass Labs amps, especially the dot five and dot eig... | |
| What’s a mistake you made by being impulsive? Ehh, the way I see it, if one can afford it and make it work within one's budget, then it's no big deal; it'll probably bring some new joy into one's life. On the other hand, if it causes you to eat ramen noodles for half a year, or it prevents y... |