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| $3500 floor standing speakers used. What would be your choice ? But no one so far describes the sound of their recommended speakers. At the end of the day, people choose their favorite speakers because it sounds most like "music" to them. Which means different things to different people. In the case of Tan... | |
| $3500 floor standing speakers used. What would be your choice ? Maggies are notorious for soaking up power - op's tube amp is doing 60 Watts / ch on a good day (fairly optimistic for a push-pull pair of EL34). | |
| Can you do anything to make power tubes last longer ? Sure, that’s a fine strategy - stick to seeking what you really want. But I’ll say that even XF3 and XF4 Mullards were much much better than SEDs, to me. I didn’t really like SEDs; they came off as a 1-trick pony for lots of warmth, lacking the ar... | |
| Can you do anything to make power tubes last longer ? didn’t like Brimar 12AX7 in the phono and thought that 12AU7 would not be too different, and Sylvania is thought to be bright by some. Sure - the sonic traits of one make/vintage of 12AX7 generally carry over to the corresponding 12AU7. Sylvani... | |
| Can you do anything to make power tubes last longer ? I am not going to use any new reissues, only interested in vintage tubes. I see no reason to just waist money on inferior sounding and less reliable tubes. But if you need 20 power tubes, yeah, you just might be forced into that. I only need a qu... | |
| Can you do anything to make power tubes last longer ? I also agree that there is no need to use white gloves. I’ll admit I’m an outdoor guy who doesn’t use lotion so my skin tends to be dry. but most tubes run cool enough that a little skin oil it isn’t a problem. Agree on the gloves point. Actual... | |
| Cartridge - sweet spot on the cost/sound curve? @elliottbnewcombjr In the sub $500 new cartridge market I am interested in knowing what options there are for boron or other hybrid cantilevers. For awhile there was carbon fiber but that was more of a cheap as chips option for Audio Technica. ... | |
| $3500 floor standing speakers used. What would be your choice ? Everyone will have their favorite speaker brand. Mine is Tannoy. There are frequently lots of tempting (to me) used Tannoys for sale. I’ve used Tannoys with lots of VAC components for many years now. In the bigger system I have Canterbury GR with... | |
| Can you do anything to make power tubes last longer ? Really, don’t overthink it. The lifespan will be determined primarily by the amp’s operational parameters (bias, voltage), and quality of the tube. Enjoy your tube amp. Vintage tubes tend to be very good, and long lived. But these days, most of wh... | |
| Just Getting Started With Headphones @mulveling - while I’ve not personally heard them yet, the Empyrian 2’s and the Elites are not supposed to be as dark/thick as the original Empyrians are. That’s true. My listening experience was with the original Empyrean version. It was "too ... | |
| Just Getting Started With Headphones So the Lyr 3 isn’t much more than a switch box with a volume control, because I’m using the tape outs on my power amp. I’m using an ASR Emitter II Exclusive power amp and its a bit of a mismatch to run a signal from the ASR into the Schiit but th... | |
| Phono stages: Hagerman and Sun Valley 1616 possible giant killers @mulveling oops. Thanks for the correction. That’s embarrassing. I always assumed Hagerman was a genius for pulling that off without FETs and using 6 tubes instead of the usual 3 in MM amps. Ah well... @noromance Clever as Hagerman is, all-tub... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. Analogies of audio to other hobbies are generally suspect (especially the car ones), but yes I can sort of get on board with this one. The folks at ASR have a very different hobby than what is generally practiced here - though we’re superficially ... | |
| Phono stages: Hagerman and Sun Valley 1616 possible giant killers No longer posting but @bkeske was impressed with the 6 tube MC version of the Trumpet—especially after rolling in Telefunkens etc. Note that as it’s a tube MC section, likely a little noisier than FET or SUT. Trumpet MC actually uses a FET base... | |
| More on XLR vs RCA considerations? I have never had any real complaints with RCA'a other than some that seem too tight, some too loose and having tried some cheap ones over the years, well, they were inferior in many ways, including audibly. Oh man, I HATE Cardas SRCAs and the a... |