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| Hybrid vs. Straight Tubes If yoo really want to find out why tubes have a very dedicate bunch of fanatics. To hear what makes a tube amp really magical, it is imperative that you have an all tube power output stage . Not a shadow of doubt period about it. | |
| Affordable tube amp match for Tannoy HPD's? Your biggest bang for your buck will likely be a vintage refurbed EL34 based amp like the Dynaco . It is a good suggestion. If you want the real tube-ey sweet nostolgic soud you'll find the EL 84 amps and variant EL 84 amps will give you that. The... | |
| Tube sound Comes, mainly, from? Pre or Power? I ask you to listen to my advice and spare yourself endless tweakling and other manuervers to get tube magic.1. The modern tube amp probably will not to sound like the vintage tube sound you may remember. The best are quick dynamic and stage like ... | |
| 3 Recomendations Far be it for me to make any grammatical assertion but allot is not a word. The short phrase a lot is what the author intended. Frankly I would like this site to provide a few tools when composing not the least of them being "spell check". I hope ... | |
| How important are the Speaker Cabinets? the best cabinets are closed perfect cubes, no prorts or internal structurs. You can just stack as many as you want on atop the other. T walls must be free to resonate at 500 cylces thus use a thin copmpliant material. Make sure that no one slips ... | |
| Mapleshade boards under speakers Make sure it is the best kiln dried maple hand ruubed with just mineral or tung iol . I use 4" thick ones with oil finish and there is a very obvious changein my syste,. I now have very attractive slabs of very thick maple and brass cones. It look... | |
| Cleaning horns on Avantgarde speakers? Do you use Armorall on the backs and poles or is it easier to get them detailed for you. The wax without cleaning will be a way of cementing in the dirt. Try a small amount of car soap in water scrub lightly with chamois then rinse off the soap bu... | |
| OT: Fine Writing Instruments I like fountain pens mostly but do yeild to roller and ball points when need be. I use bottled ink and converters for most of them. While I think it might be nice to own the hyper exclusives I settle for stupidly soort of exclusive and now ....."a... | |
| Cloning Class A Classics Continued.. Do you mean "Replica" of old class A amps. That is what they used by criminals to commit a fraud. They sell pricy things like Swiss watches using the fany makers Name and Trademarks and do a pretty convincing job of it.. Almost every Dupont lighte... | |
| Need HELP for Jadis JS1 DA Converter If you search these archives there is an official Jadis repair technician nsmed Avi Brand. I don't have his contact data But you might find it burried in the short thread. Given that he is a Jadis official,he may not be in a position to offer you ... | |
| What amp do I need to power my Acoustat 1100 Any amp stable at one. ohm. These are not easy to rive becauze they do present 1 ohm laods but employ fonick transforms thst friend's melted with an Aragon m0n0 block palladium 1Ks.Instead try a favorite for low ohm loads the ICE powered H2O brand.. | |
| Speakers and vacuum tube gear Ho big is your budget? How much for the amp? etc.Yes of course there is fidelity between tube amps and speakers. I agree with Mr. Reynolds the best speaker regardless of the tube amp in question is one that holds a steady high impedance. However t... | |
| What year did tube lose to SS Thanks for the answers.The only point that I want to clarify is the use of "lost." As was posted I meant in terms of number built and then purchased by the consumers for good or bad reasons. Simply the numbers. Recall my analogy to CDs and Vinyl R... | |
| Audio Research SP-6 captive cord....... I bought one with a captive cord but new by Zu. The work was done by an ametuer and what a messy job. I had it changed to an IEC. Since I never sold it I have don't know whether it matters price wise. The second point about sound degradation thoug... | |
| How long to burn in Graham Slee Amp 2 The cartridge is in my original post. I run the Graham Slee into an AE-3 pre that is incredibly good then Cyber 800 monos to JM lab 936 Electras . |