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| Sonic Frontiers to Conrad Johnson . FWIW you are not the first person who tried to put together a system based on magazine reviews and ended up with something hard to listen to for more than a few minutes. Magazine reviewers seem to always be impressed with "detail", the wow factor!... | |
| looking to go from seperates to intergrated You need to give more info if you want other than generic recommendations or WAG's. What speakers, how loud do you play them, what size room, sonic preferences, tubes or SS, playback components and budget. | |
| The quest for power I use a Muse 100 as a summer amp on a second system. Tonally it is very much like a SF SFS80 tube amp just not as much "tube" magic, but a bit more detailed presentation. 100wt a 8ohms 200wts at 4 ohms. That said, I saw a Muse 160 on Agon. This is... | |
| Sonic Frontiers to Conrad Johnson . Well, you could always take a step back to the SFM 160's. They are a classic tube amp design. They are not near as cold sounding as the Power 2. The are very resonsive, tonally to tube selection and powerful. I run mine with SED 6550's and EI 6DJ8... | |
| Is There A Mouse in my Preamp or Power Amp? What Elgordo sez. Drop in new line stage tubes and see if the problem disappears. Don't replace the phono tubes unless you only noted the sound when the phono was playing. Also, you may only need to replace the most sensitive of the line stage tub... | |
| vpi aries/jmw-10, grado hum Grado's are notorious for their unshielded cartridges. Most commonly they react to the electronic field of the motor in a turntable which is commonly on the far side of the table from the arm. As the arm moves toward the center the hum becomes mor... | |
| Speaker cable vs. interconnect cable length I agree with Eldartford, with SS it shouldn't be a problem. I have a high gain tube amp with an output impedence of 600 ohms. I use 25' IC's and can detect no loss of information when compared to 3' IC's. Just keep the IC's away from anything whic... | |
| Anyone hear the Caravelle speaker and not like it? Warren, You're getting to be a real Oracle, are you from Delphi? :-)Pal, Warren is totally on point. I would add to his comments that if these speakers are as revealing etc as reputed they should be as critical of the sonic quality of the componen... | |
| Current tube Manufacturer's as good as NOS Best What Swampwalker sez, and not all NOS tubes sound better than current production. There is a lot of crap out there disguised as NOS (including a lot of used pulls) and there are some excellent new production tubes. And there is a lot of NOS hype c... | |
| cones or amp stand-??? Hi Stehno, You are right re closed minded - it never dawned on me that you had started up your own company. Nice looking stuff you've got there. Far more intriguing to the eyes. :-)By the way, I'm just an old country boy as well. Grew up on a chic... | |
| What do tube and music have in comon? As with Rushton everything I have comes with tubes. 75% classical orchestral, small groups, and vocal, and 25% jazz instrumental and vocal. My bigget priority is getting the system set up to reproduce the range from 200 hz to 3000 hz as smoothly a... | |
| speaker connections? Spades usually are best as they provide for a more secure connection (You are less likely to have one cable pop off, touch the other cable, and short out) and there is less potential for corrosion. Bananas are great for convienience. As long as th... | |
| Powercord to tame brightness and add musicality Warren, Since when is there an H in any of you opinions? :-) | |
| Anyone hear the Caravelle speaker and not like it? TWL, Nice spec's. Shows you where I haven't visited (on the net) in a while. What is the minimum and the maximum impedence? Hell, you might even get me interested. | |
| Anyone hear the Caravelle speaker and not like it? Onhwy61, ROTFLMAO! Nice parody. I find it interesting that with the great bass these speakers can produce no one publishes any spec's to support that claim. Certainly someone should know what the -3db point is for the bass. Maybe The Audiotweak sh... |