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| tube amps and electrostatics Anyone ever heard a decent Icepower amp running newer Quad ESLs? That's something I would like to hear.When I was auditioning for new speakers a few years back, the Quad ESL demo I got at a local dealer hit the bullseye for the sound I wanted, run... | |
| tube amps and electrostatics I think Al got it right again, as usual. :-) | |
| Wrong speakers Yeah, Thiels can be tough, but I suspect there are many speaker choices out there that would work well with that amp. An easier load and higher efficiency speakers on paper likely provide the greatest upside.Of the ones you mention, I think mbl is... | |
| Happy music... Even a lot of Moody Blues music starting in the very early 80's sets a generally happy tone. I know most of it makes me very happy! Most of the blatant cerebral aspects of their earlier classic 7 albums was gone, though they continued to write int... | |
| Happy music... Britney Spears, Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga...pretty happy stuff!Taylor Swift? IS she getting that chip off her shoulder yet? | |
| Happy music... A lot of Baroque period classical music is pretty happy sounding stuff, but as the years progressed, things seemed to get a lot more serious and cerebral overall in general. Lots of good happy sounding exceptions to that general trend over the yea... | |
| Who makes The best amp is the one that matches best to the best speakers.In the end, that's really all that matters, no matter how it is accomplished in any particular case.Figuring out what will work best with what is the tricky part. The rest is largely s... | |
| Happy music... Klezmer music is generally very happy stuff! | |
| Happy music... We No SPeak Americano Video.Even Scrooge likes this.Also Brahms Hungarian Dances, and most any well known Strauss Waltz. Like polka's you can't waltz to music that is not happy. | |
| Happy music... THis one has a lot of narrator talking in it but is worth it for the fantastic sounding rendition of the "Batman" TV show theme song by Neil Hefti alone that makes me very happy. | |
| Happy music... The SMCGH CD is fun and fantastic with good sound start to end.Most not all the cartoon songs are from when I was a kid back in the 60s-70s heyday of saturday morning cartoons, but this was always a hit with all my family including even my 12 and ... | |
| tube amps and electrostatics I have never heard quad esls have a dynamic low end like is possible with good full range dynamic speakers. I always figured that to be their inherent achilles heel, as is the case with planars generally. Have not compared with a good beefy SS amp... | |
| tube amps and electrostatics Ive heard quad esl of cj tube amp. Very nice match! | |
| Happy music... Surf guitar music, beach boys, b52s, leroy anderson, beatles/mccartney, vintage chet atkins, buck owens, a lot of 50s and early 60s pop hits, before kennedy, vietnam, watergate, etc. When things got heavier. Go to allmusic. Com and check out music... | |
| Who makes YEs, and most modern high quality speakers that are not large and use porting and other methods to deliver extended low end bass response out of a smaller package, as is popular with most these days, ARE difficult loads, even quality small monitor... |