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| Amps for Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage 0461,I'm curious as to when you had your 100.5s, how much were the needles moving when your Strads were sounding compressed?I love the combo of Pass and SF. The 30.5 is one of the amps I rotate in to drive my Guarneri Homages in my home office. Ho... | |
| Shindo preamp with Mcintosh MC252 Nitewulf,Definitely check out the impedance ratio between the Shindo and the Mac. Some Mac amps are as low as 10K, some preamps can be over 1K, not a great ratio.I like CJ's newer preamps. I know the CT-5's output imp is spec'd at 800 and their AC... | |
| Cary CAD-211AE tube rolling Lewhite, I wondered about that too. The EML meshes take the least amount of dissapation I have heard of. On the Cary 805 AE's, you can adjust the bias of the 300b so I am thinking I can "dial" it in, maybe run it in the low 50 mA's but I have 300b... | |
| Cary CAD-211AE tube rolling The harmonics seem to float a little more with the Sophia meshes. The EML solids just seem to sound right overall. I am on the hunt for EML meshes, very curious how they would sound. | |
| Amp suggestions for sofia's The CJ and Lamm's you mentioned are great choices, I would add Pass's XA.5's to that list. | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave If it was there when the music was recorded, why not have it there in your room when it's played back? The hard part is doing it right. | |
| Cary CAD-211AE tube rolling I know you're asking about the Cary 211 and I have the Cary 805 AE's but I think they might be close enough to comment. For the 300b, I like the Sophia Princess mesh and the EML solid plate. I also have the WE and KR balloon but the two I mentione... | |
| Favorite 300B: Sophia vs KR Here is some first hand info I'd like to share:I like Sophia's Princess meshes or more accurately, "perforated plates" :-).I have them plus some EML solid, KR and WE's. I would love to try the EML "true" meshes but was also warned to be careful of... | |
| McIntosh MC-1.2KW vs PASS XA-160.5 amps ?? That is a tough choice given your want of finesse and brute power and only you figure what you want most.As far as pros and cons: The 160's are going to draw a steady 600 watts from the wall "each" or around 10 amps total. That plus what else is h... | |
| Maggies with Tubes? Sebrof, good call.It's no wonder that a "thread starter" can start out a little confused and end up a lot confused. "Absolutely can!! "Absolutely can't!!" Thing is, both can be right depending on the type of music and loudness they like to listen ... | |
| Tube amp comparison Agree with above and favor the 8b. I bought one for nostalgia to go with my 10b and 7c. I wasn't expecting much but got a real pleasant surprise using it to drive some Sonus Faber Guarneris. I like being able to roll the el34's and bias each one i... | |
| Maggies with Tubes? If you don't play your music too loud, I think you will be lovin life. | |
| Sonus Faber Stradivari amp: X600.5 or X1000.5 ? Johnb30,That helps a lot. My feeling is that you would be better served by the 600.5 or go for the 1000.5's if you want. I've had the X's in my house and own 2 XA.5's. The XA's are the better sounding amp but you pay for quality over quantity in t... | |
| Do speaker wires degrade over time ? I have a pair of biwire jumpers made from original Monster Cables 12 ga wire. They have a clear coat and you can see that the copper has turned a nice barf green (it did this in less than 5 yrs). These were terminated imediately and had soldered e... | |
| Sonus Faber Stradivari amp: X600.5 or X1000.5 ? Johnb30,When you listened to your Mac 501's, what was the meter indicating at your louder volumes? |