newbee
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| PrimaLuna One, interconnects,cables,power chords I put in some NOS Tesla E34L's (power tubes) built in the late 80's/early 90's, but I haven't tried similar vintage Tesla EL34's yet, but from past experience I suspect they would sound much the same. That brightened my One up quite a bit. Added t... | |
| Re-biasing a CJ Premier 8 Since you are just starting out with these amps, I would suggest the Svetlana (SED) flying C. They are very reliable and produce a fairly balanced tone. The KT90's may have tighter bass and maybe a bit brighter tone - my biggest reservation is abo... | |
| PrimaLuna One, interconnects,cables,power chords New Old Stock. Means that they are tubes that have not been used but are no longer in production. Unfortunately many tube sellers on the internet apply this designation to any old tube, used or not. Caveat emptor. | |
| PrimaLuna One, interconnects,cables,power chords I have a hard time justifying spending a lot of money on cable, PC and I/C just to improve this amp's "sparkle and transparency" (not that you need my justification). One of its biggest attractions for me is it's price/performance ratio. What I wo... | |
| New Condo, time to downsize?? If you are just into CD's, I probably get a CDP with analog volume control and connect it directly into a medium powered triode amp connected to some small(er) floor standing speakers dynamic speakers with efficiencies in the 90's and a relatively... | |
| Subwoofer recommendations for mostly music If you can hear the effect of the sub woofer in any substantive way you may have it set up improperly. In a music system the only time you should hear the effect of a sub woofer is on very deep notes and you will get a little added warmth in the m... | |
| Wilson Benesch ARC vs. other Scanspeak revelators Durbin, Tyler uses both the Seas Millenium and the Scanspeak Revelator in different speakers. Most of his better speakers use the Seas Millenium. | |
| Spikes versus wall coupling Gammajo, Thank you for your recommendations. Since you bring up Volados, I would most highly recommend to you his Schubert solo piano works on Sony. This is not only outstanding playing, an excellent recording, but who would ever have guessed that... | |
| tall speaker in small room??? FWIW, I'm running the 1 piece Linbrook Systems full range speaker in a room 13x19x9 and its more than enuf for my room. It also produces a large and deep image at much lower volume than my other dynamic speakers. With a room of your dimensions, be... | |
| Spikes versus wall coupling I agree with TWL, except I'm never at a loss for words. I think this thread is a vintage argument for the old saying what ever works for you must work. There are just so many theories regarding vibration control it's tough for folks like Gammajo a... | |
| Sonic frontiers sfs 80 or 160 Franczyk makes an interesting point with some merit. I've never matched my SFS or SFM amps up to a Quest Z. However most tube amps do have a higher output impedence than a tube amp and its not unusual to find them going as high as 3.5 for the SFS8... | |
| is interconnect more important than speaker cable Eldartford, I grew up in Massachusetts. I agree with you, there are many reasons for moving to Arizona besides the weather! :-) | |
| Spikes versus wall coupling Tom, If you want to couple speakers as massive as these to the floor why would you need to do anything except let the wood bottom rest unobstructed to the wood floor? That would certainly allow all of the vibrations to pass directly to the floor. ... | |
| Spikes versus wall coupling With your speakers I'm afraid the mass would compress the felt so much that it would just become another mudium for transmission of vibrations. Cork could work and those dense rubber mats sold at Home Depot combined with some felt so you can push ... | |
| Spikes versus wall coupling Personally I would not advise spikes. Why would you want to couple these speakers to a wood floor. In fact, with the mass of these speakers they are already more than adequately coupled. In my view you should want to isolate them from the floor, i... |