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| Thoughts on Amperex PQ tubes Holland Amperex made some of the best detail clean and imaging preamp tubes. I don't know about the 7119 personally other than that it is a very strongly recommended sub for the 5687. I have used their 6922 types and especially the 12AU7 sub the 7... | |
| Can Tube Amps be Used for Home Theater? Actually a hybrid would be much less of a problem for continuous operation . Usually the hybrid is only one 9 pin dual triode miniature tube. I think that they rarely do much in terms of delivering the tube magic but others disagree. These small t... | |
| Rowland Model 7 s -- what are they worth? That sounds like a good price. BUT... for anything in excess of few years old you just never know what will go wrong and when. With big amps like these there are expensive electrolytic Capacitors. They usually last at least 15+ years but they will... | |
| Best tube-based phono stage? It sounds like your pal is not into very expensive gear and I think the OM5 cart is MM. I would not go with tube and I love tubes for everything else. The permissible noise level for a phono stage is miniscule the best sounding tubes in terms of t... | |
| Wanted: NHT X2 electronic crossover. I don't mean to be a jerk but this kind of "want to buy" is really an ad and belongs in the classified or other venues. | |
| elevating subwoofer... Yes large steel balls would dissipate energy. Can you find them easily? | |
| Parents need clear sounding 2 ch HT I think your parents are suffering hearing issues that seem to them as garbled sounds but is really a medical matter. They probably need the speakers near to them and the volume on the louder side for them to be satisfied. I would advise them to g... | |
| Anti-Skate dial-How to set it? + a bonus question Well after very careful and long listening with my new toy I did indeed notice that the anti-skate had a distinct effect on the sound of the left channel mainly. Skipping and mistracking was fairly uncommon even when VTF was on the lighter side "l... | |
| Jolida jd-502p I can tell you from personal experience how much better a Jolida piece I once owned sounded after I rolled the tubes. At that time it was expensive but clearly not as bad as it is now for the better truly strong old stuff. I used Upscale Mil Spec ... | |
| Weak Bass from my SP 1/2s You need more power as already suggested. I might try something with much much more juice like a Wyed4Sound amp, as big as you can afford, It is class D o it won't be as rich as some other amps (class A or A/B) but the price per watt ratio goes up... | |
| Where to go after Bel Canto Ref1000MKII How much do you want to spend you seem happy with the sound of the KR amp. I am sure a used one will be much less. A big Austrian tube amp like an Ayon. | |
| Forwardness of cymbals in Snell E vs ProAc 2.5 Who knows for sure? One thing I can tell you that if you want to bring out the top end of your sound replace the CJ-5. It is a very laid back warm unit. You might sizzle your ears off, but just to see what I mean, insert an ARC unit into your syst... | |
| Power cable thoughts for Krell Kav/Proceed Amp 2? Lloyd.... The pricing model albeit for a rather heavy guage cable is anything but inexpensive. The least you can spend is $650. How you determine SOTA is truly arbitrary in many cases. The high price of the cable the claims of superior ingredirnts... | |
| How far can room treatments solve boomy bass? While room treatments are very important, I think the system used is just as, if not more important, in determining the kind of sound you will hear. Every one I think would agree to try "bass traps" in the corners and to get the speakers off the f... | |
| Tube rolling Bat vk-3i The "better" 6922s/E88CCs 7308s Ccas etc have become very expensive. The style of sound you desire would likely be found in the German tubes Siemens in particular and Telefunken of course. If you are comfortable spending $300 and over for a pair o... |