newbee
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| Room treatment success story FWIW, Schipo, I think your first sentence is misleading. There is also no EVIDENCE that they are good. They are what they are and whether they are deemed good or bad is dependent on a lot of things, including personal opinion and/or appreciation o... | |
| Tube or Solid State J bailey, I'm LOL. I've been called a lot of nasty things in my life but never "a ss guy". :-) My post was an attempt at being pragmatic as opposed to a tube enthusiast. | |
| Speakers this way, or that, with cathedral ceiling Everything else being equal I'd try firing the speakers down the room parallel with the ridge of the ceiling. I've never had success with speakers placed under a sloping ceiling. And, I'd think it would be even better if you were firing down the l... | |
| Tube or Solid State Go with the solid state Mac. The often subtle differences between tubes and SS is the liquidity of the tube sound which I think can be largely lost when you are listening to really loud music, as you seem inclined to do. Now if you maintain a SPL ... | |
| Room treatment success story Kclone, I sort of agree with the oversimplification set forth by Keithr. He left out some treatments for sidewall first reflections (usually necessary) but included some reference to ceilings which most over look. :-)But, FWIW, in my opinion you w... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Interesting thread, all opinions included. FWIW I concluded some time ago that the 'problem' in our hobby had its seeds in the development of 'stereo' sound including multi channel sound, where the objective became creating/sustaining the fantasy ... | |
| Another speaker placement question. HELP Go to your hardware store and get some 'furniture movers', for lack of a better term, which are plastic faced rubber discs which you place under the corners of the speakers base. Then you can just slide them around to your hearts content. Mark or ... | |
| Abour EAR 834 Int Amp activating phono stage Boy, you have lost me on this one. I have an EAR 834L line stage. It has NO phono section, it only accepts line level sources such as CDP, Tuners, Tape recorders, and Phono Pre-amps. If you have plugged the phono cables from your turntable directl... | |
| Which purchase tipped you into nirvana. In chronological order: 1) 1975 - Stax Earphones; 2) 1986 - ARC SP10II pre-amp, my first piece of tubed equipment; 2007 - Silverline Bolero speakers. | |
| Most powerful and popular EL34 tube amp? I have a pair of your speakers in my closet. They are 92db and I had no problem driving them as loud as I needed in a 19.5x13.5x9 ft room with 40 wts. The best sound I got out of these speakers using an amp with EL34's (SED Brand) was a Primaluna ... | |
| Most powerful and popular EL34 tube amp? Depends on SPL (in db's) you wish to obtain at the listening position. Both 89db speakers and 4ohms are do-able, assuming the 4ohm is their lowest impedance droop and you are driving the speakers a lease breaking levels. Do you have budget limitat... | |
| tutube or not tutube Tube pre-amps/line stages are as simple, or as complex, as you fear/require depending on your actual usage and sonic demands. For example, I'm aware of a tube line stage which can be left on 24/365, uses easily acquired and inexpensive small tubes... | |
| Advice on going from mid level to high end Before you consider moving on, have you optimized the set up of your present speakers, listening position, and room acoustics? If not don't drop a dime until you have explored this thoroughly! There is so much to learn. The stuff you now have can ... | |
| Questions Luxman L-505u, L-507u, Simaudio & Classe A Luxman demo in an unfamiliar store will prove nothing. The environment, let alone the minds inability to really retain a reliable memory of the sound in your home, is enuf to overwhelm any differences that might exist. If you are happy, be happy... | |
| Electro Harmonix 6922 pre-amp tubes Tom, FWIW I just finished playing with the SP10 (aqain) today. I tried mixing some Sovteks and EH's in my SP10's line and phono stages. You can try putting some EH's in the critical stage and Sovteks in the non-critical stage of you BAT and see wh... |