pubul57
Responses from pubul57
| List : Components with high dynamics CAT amps and preamps are the most dynamic electronics I have heard. Of course, how dynamic they will sound will depend on the speakers they are matched with, but they'll be very dynamic with most. | |
| Atma-Sphere MA2 Mk2.3 / Krell KSA 250 / Passlabs? If the Atma's can drive them fine - an awful lot of tubes though. I think you should take a look at the Pass XA-160s up for sale for less than $6,000 - I would choose the XA over X if and when money is not a consideration. 160 Class A watts should... | |
| McIntosh MC275 / Audio Research VS-110 Does the current 275 sound more or less like the original? | |
| Holographic imaging You think great DACs are realtively immune to the transport use? And if so, is that a recent development? Seems like a while back, the transport was viewed as being just as important. In a review of my Accustic Arts DAC, the reviewer found that wh... | |
| Battery Powered Preamps Dgarretson, would love to get your impression of the Dodd. SBank also owns Merlins (great minds...) and switched to the Dodd after owning the Atma Pre (he had the MP-3, not the MP-1). In my system I prefer the Atma-Atma combo, but I prefer the Dod... | |
| Vandersteen 2CE's I don't think Double4w sounded like a Vandy hater (are there any? really?) but I kinda agree that in the context of the OPs question suggesting other speakers can (not in this case, I don't think) be a shill tactic. I no longer own Vandersteen, bu... | |
| Battery Powered Preamps Dgarretson, are you thinking battery power frontend electronics, I'm concerned with preamps in particular, is where we are heading for best sound? | |
| Battery Powered Preamps Assuming battery implementations overcome what might be a theoretical issue regarding bass and dynamics (owners of Dodd and RWA seem to think this is not a problem with their preamps)wouldn't battery DC be cleaner and more "perfect" than what comp... | |
| Battery Powered Preamps The Dodd uses (2) 6dj8s and as previously mentioned, it only uses 1/2 of each tube (when they get old you switch tubes and the other half of the tube is used). I thought this was a pretty nifty feature for getting double the life from expensive NO... | |
| Battery Powered Preamps I don't know enough to fully understand Dgarretson's technical explanation, nor whether Gary Dodd might answer "yes, generally true, but...." I do know the Dodd seems to be a pretty effective implementation of battery power and a whole lot simpler... | |
| Holographic imaging There must have been a great deal of satisfaction of building your own amp, truly yours. I'd be afraid of starting a fire, but the idea has alot of appeal - talk about pride of ownership. | |
| Battery Powered Preamps Dgarretson, do you know if the Dodd is a minimalist tube design? It seems to work well on batteries (4 12volt 5 amp SLA batteries - pretty heavy). Not as strong in the bass as the CAT Sl1 but it does seem very balanced. I wonder if Gary Dodd has o... | |
| Battery Powered Preamps It would be interesting to hear from some designers on the issue, like Ralph Karsten of Atma-sphere and others. Since I know nothing at all about electronics I may be blind to something critical that makes getting on the grid worth the effort. But... | |
| Holographic imaging I use to really get drawn into the music with my Thorens TT, NAD 3020, and JBL19s when I was in college...hmmm. | |
| Holographic imaging Let's hope the market recovers as well as this thread. |