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| Building first 2 channel system, need cable advice Use signal cables also inexpensive and no silliness. If you want to try a different type of conductor try vampire wire OCC long crystal copper in a Zip cord . The other to consider is silver. Silver has a particular sound to it. The sound is frequ... | |
| 5 Years or More? I have a pair of 1959 JBL sinature series 030 drivers in a C38 enclosure. They were my fathers and are 49 years old. 16 years after that I bought my own speakers, New Klipsch Heresys in 1976 for $550- if you wanted grill covers that was another $5... | |
| best tubes for VTL,5.5 preamp. I don't know the tube complement, if you post it I can tell you a few potential warm tubes to try. | |
| preamp gain problem. Get an old ARC tube pre. I own an ARC SP6B. This set up and circuitry seems to be a common theme for many of their preamps. Mine has gain from hell and tubes.Even though I am a devoted tubophile most old stock tubes make some noise. It takes very ... | |
| Pure class A amplifiers = "slow" amplifiers? Band width and slew rate are not a function of eachother only potentially limited by one or the other parameter. In any event the slew rate is ridiculously quick, some other elements must account for percieved slowness. I don't percieve it in my c... | |
| Shorting the speaker wires I feel sort of like an idiot in saying this but when did crossing my speaker wire terminations become a stereo system catastrophy. I blew the S*** out of an SS amp by doing just that a fews years back. Now I am hyper to the extent I can muster hye... | |
| Oxymoron: High powered tube amps that stay cool Just burn fossil fuels to make enough energy to fire up your favorite tube amps and turn on the ac pumped through baffled chambers from an outlying building to keep in comfy. | |
| Pure class A amplifiers = "slow" amplifiers? In the Black and Blue books of the the great German or was Austrian Oh that's right Vienese Philosoper Wittengstein explained at length . The only thing which anything tells you of itself, is limited to what it can tell you. Further you can't whis... | |
| Company or Solitude? I like talking to my friends about audio and it makes for lightwieght listening session. When I really want the music to rock my jelly roll soul I have to be alone. | |
| Mraconi B65 tubes? Marconi Osrams or MOV yes I heard tell of them but more frequently the B39 I think which is the 12AX7. The asking price for a pristine pr of NOS B39s about two years ago was $1000/PR. That was a semi private offer. I politely declined. | |
| Bell Canto VS Pass Labs I actually believe the poster that said weight is a significant factor. Most of the metal goes into transformers. Unfortunately much of the wieght is in the case work. I have heard that those pretty cases account for 50% of the cost. If the tranni... | |
| 6SN7 tube GTA vrs GTB Well I am happy to have finally sorted through enough N7s to have all of the TS RPs in one tray which has a bunch of other fairly good to superb ,no not the TS level tubes.The bad news or good news depending how you see it is that this is not even... | |
| Still working on choosing a power amp I love big sound and like my music on the loud side. I had been searching for the amp that invariably made great music. I was using 400wpc SS amps. They had that dreaded glare and would cause listener's fatigue quickly forgettaboutit. I finally li... | |
| great musician's audio systems Musicians don't need fancy equipment, though there are many stories like Patty labelle and VR9s et al. The reason they need little in terms of fancy stuff is that musicians hear a piece of music in their head and the recording is just a cue. My wi... | |
| CD/DVD Player with variable output volume control? I don'ty think that the "audiophile" level CD players benefit from the economy of scale that Universal players do. There are many with variable outputs but even used few will dip below $300. If must have a universal then I am clueless. The ones I ... |