marakanetz
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| Totem's "Hawk" and "Forrest":How Hi-End Are They? Forest is much stronger and better on higher volumes(110dB continuos what do you think?). They realy breath on high volumes. Since all Totems have relatively stable impedance they're considered to be a tube- friendly. Even specs on Forest say that... | |
| Need A Quick Education S/N is a measure for the poweramp that matters more than S/N measure for the preamp... | |
| why does triod mode sound better than ultralinear? the shorter the signal path the greater the sound. under this theory SET is the best with single- power tube and possibly directly coupled(OTL). there are not too many speakers that are efficient and full range and in cases otherwise the greater p... | |
| Need A Quick Education Mwilson,S/N in this case is more for the amplifier domain than in preamp and low-powered amps for horns usually have S/N much higher than 90dB. | |
| Need A Quick Education as soon as it >= 90db it doesn't make a difference in these terms as long as it can play music the way you want to hear it. | |
| What Instrument do You Play? Accordion, Chromatic Accordion, Bandoneon, Harmonica. Some guitar rhythm and bass...I can't call myself as a musician since I do not perform professionally but being what I am does not influence my equipment choices. It rather influence the music ... | |
| Why no remote? Estein, even if you acquire remote-volume CD-player you pretty fast realize that using fixed output with your existing non-remote preamp will make much more sence sonically! | |
| Desperately seeking the elusive tube sound One exception to NOS!EI Yugos are the tubes many audiophiles prefer over NOS due to their excellent sonic and built qualities. | |
| Acoustic Bass, Trombone, and Baritone Lester Bowie "All the Magic" on ECM available on record or CD.Carla Bley "Goes to Church" on CD and many many many more of Carla Bley to listen to... "Eoropean Tour 1977", "Social Science",...Charlie Haden and Liberation Orchestra Watt available o... | |
| Desperately seeking the elusive tube sound If you have preamp or source with tubes and SS driving speakers all you listening is to some tube-ish colours instead of tubes.Most of the tubes heard from power ones. | |
| Why no remote? Having turned volume up or down during listening of one piece of music on quiet or loud parts is just another way to compress the signal imho. | |
| Why no remote? The best "budget" remote preamp I've heard so-far is Audio Synthesis passive remote stepped volume control ~$2.2k new. | |
| NJ Audio Society? Since I work in Newark I can also take part... | |
| Why no remote? Oh, yeah... One more thing:When buying used equipment remote-controlled gear might to some point be a-bit more marketable than non-remote since it in general drop its price to the point of non-remote gear anywhay... | |
| Why no remote? The volume control implementation used in audio demands low noise, transperency and minimum reactance.Remote control volumes usually incorporate motors along certainly with DC to drive the motor that becomes a part of signal path(hm... noisy often... |