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| Vintage Power Amp vs new age power amp I'll put my JWN Eico HF-20 rebuilds up against anything under $10,000.00 (for considerably less money) all Point to point wiring with a different circuit but the original Chicago OPT used in the units is legendery and virtually as good as anything... | |
| Vintage Power Amp vs new age power amp I just purchased a pair of Eico HF 20 rebuilds courtesy of Jim Nicholls from JWN amps, He changed the caps and resistors, upgraded the Power xformer, and put in his own cicuit and all I can say is WOW! I would put these up against any amp out the... | |
| Best $1,500-ish New or Used Floorstander - I would contact Tim Kroll from Shelby Kroll to see if he has any more of his B stock Nano Monitors left and get the matching sub at a later time. Awesome speakers and the sub is supposed to be awesome as well. They haven't been professionally revi... | |
| Looking for best $1000 tube power amp Plenty of good suggestions here. I would also recommend you contact Jim Nichols from JWN amps. He will build you a custom tube amp for well under $1000.00 that is auto-bias and accepts virtually any power tube type, and did I mention it sounds gre... | |
| Good budget amp for Mirage M1 if you can stretch your budget to $800.00 have Jim Nichols from JWN amps build you a custom tube amp, I promise you won't be dissapointed | |
| magnestand owners I've been to Pete's place and heard both the gunned 1.6 and SMGA and both were excellent. They definitely perform way above their price point. Jusy my 2 cents | |
| what is a good tube pre amp out there........... I would check out the Purity line from Bill Baker | |
| TAD Rocks Big Time Very sad indeed. I owned his Cayin Ta30, The Tad 1000 monoblocks and his Tad Signature 150 pre, all excellent products and a great value. Paul was a very pleasant and cordial person to deal with and always willing to help in any way he could. I ju... | |
| EL34 upgrade Mikirob:I paid $800.00 for my amp and it is an all around great performer. it has three 6sn7 tubes and a quad of whatever power tube you choose to utilize. el34, kt88-6550, 6l6-kt66 and is autobias. It's rated at 45-50 wpc but has plenty of power ... | |
| EL34 upgrade There's also another article from Lynn olsen at Positive feedback online reviewing a JWN amp and the tubes Lynn was using (the 6l6 ones with the adapter)are supposed to be stellar as well. Jim speaks very highly of them and they are very reasonabl... | |
| EL34 upgrade I'm also ready to pull the trigger on some of those 6p3s-3 tu bes from Jim Mcshane as well. I'm currently using Genelex Kt66 reissues in my JWN amp and they sound pretty darn good, and I'm a little concerned about them being too similar sounding. ... | |
| Should I buy a new amplifier; and if so, what? I'm sure Jim Nicholls from JWN amps could build you a great tube amp for far below what it will cost to replace the caps in the Mark Levinson. There's plenty of good tube options out there, just bag SS altogether and don't look back. | |
| Not your everyday bookshelf speaker? Shelby + Kroll Nano Monitors. they're rated at 6 ohms but according to Tim Kroll They're ruler flat to 10k hz and then drop to 4 ohms and are very easy to drive. They also happen to sound gerat | |
| Quad 21L vs. 22L2 Sonic differences? I owned a pair of 21L's approx six years ago, they were finished in the birds eye maple finish and looked great. They definitely sounded better than the Meadowlark Swifts I owned previously but came up well short against a pair of Morel Preludes I... | |
| Why do I always like a source with Burr Brown DAC? The dac in my Esound cd player is a Crystal CS4390 sounds pretty good to my ears |