nightfall
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| Need A Top Quality Repair Service For My Vintage Luxman Amplifier I'm in Michigan, but can ship as needed. | |
| Sonus Faber Alternatives That Offer Similar Sound and Performance, your expertise needed! chrisaz, I've actually heard the 40.1's in a quite small room in a nearfield setup and they were outstanding. I strongly suspect you could make them work in your room. | |
| Sonus Faber Alternatives That Offer Similar Sound and Performance, your expertise needed! Thanks, VERY much, aolmrd and soix for some valuable recommendations. Some of these are quite large speakers, though. Based on your experience and knowledge of them, do you feel they will work effectively in my moderately sized room, that I noted ... | |
| Sonus Faber Alternatives That Offer Similar Sound and Performance, your expertise needed! sfseay, I'm not sure you completely understand. My issues is that the two Sonus Faber speakers that I "could" potentially upgrade to will not be available, used, at a price I can afford, for the foreseeable future. I'm asking for suggestions of ot... | |
| Auditioning Elipsa SE tomorrow, getting my ducks in a row, am I missing anything Elipsa SE's are wonderful speakers, especially in the famous violin red color that SF is known for, as was mentioned before. My only concern would be your room, if it truly limits them to 2 feet from the wall. Elipsa's are difficult to place well,... | |
| The Best , make that the all time best, 6SN7. I'm interested in trying the 6J5 family of tubes to replace 6SN7's but am having trouble finding any adaptors? | |
| Best Tube Amp For Sonus Faber? Or Pass XA-100.5? $6-7,500 Budget, Purchasing Used. abrew19,I was told by people involved with the company that the 60.5's would not be a good match due to the requirements of my Sonus Faber Olympica III's. They are 4 ohms, are rated at 90DB sensitivity (which I think is definitely inflated) and dr... | |
| Best Tube Amp For Sonus Faber? Or Pass XA-100.5? $6-7,500 Budget, Purchasing Used. I discovered how you can PM here. Thanks. PM's sent.To everyone else, thanks for all of your valuable and insightful information, it has all been helpful in my arriving at a final decision on what is an extremely important purchase for me.In the e... | |
| Best Tube Amp For Sonus Faber? Or Pass XA-100.5? $6-7,500 Budget, Purchasing Used. jmcgrogan2 said:06-19-2017 8:09pmAre you a member on any audio forum where I could PM youYou can PM members on Audiogon. If I had known that, I would have PM'ed you previously! Now if I could just find the way to do that. | |
| Best Tube Amp For Sonus Faber? Or Pass XA-100.5? $6-7,500 Budget, Purchasing Used. 06-19-2017 3:32pmnightfall said..."My current preamplifier is the top of the line PrimaLuna Dialogue Premium, which I have loaded up with very good NOS tubes. I find it to be a giant killer under $10k" aolmrd1241 saidI concur. What NOS tubes are y... | |
| Best Tube Amp For Sonus Faber? Or Pass XA-100.5? $6-7,500 Budget, Purchasing Used. djfst, Are you a member on any audio forum where I could PM you, I have made a decision after a long call with VAC today. Some of what was said is not information I feel it right to share here, as it was a private, and extremely upfront conversati... | |
| Best Tube Amp For Sonus Faber? Or Pass XA-100.5? $6-7,500 Budget, Purchasing Used. djfst,My current preamplifier is the top of the line PrimaLuna Dialogue Premium, which I have loaded up with very good NOS tubes. I find it to be a giant killer under $10k (granted I stole that line from Kevin Deal who may be a bit biased, but th... | |
| Best Tube Amp For Sonus Faber? Or Pass XA-100.5? $6-7,500 Budget, Purchasing Used. Thanks for the tip on the 8 ohm taps. I would not have expected that. Another reason why it's good to experiment on what might work best. By the way, what preamp were you using with the Olympica III's and the 200IQ?Very eager to call VAC tomorrow ... | |
| Best Tube Amp For Sonus Faber? Or Pass XA-100.5? $6-7,500 Budget, Purchasing Used. djfst,Quite a bit earlier in this discussion you said " Would not go with the VAC Phi 300.1. Definitely go with the updated VAC Signature 200 IQ with continuous auto bias. 100+ watts and has all the bass and tightness of solid state and the m... | |
| Best Tube Amp For Sonus Faber? Or Pass XA-100.5? $6-7,500 Budget, Purchasing Used. djfst, Thanks VERY much for your continuing help and information. I actually talked to Brent, as Kevin wasn't available, but I understand it, he is Kevin's right hand man. and he was incredibly helpful and knowledgeable. We discussed a lot if thin... |