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| Help What Say You - Amp choices The Nola Viper, if I remember correctly (I owned their predecessor under the Alon badge), are very tube friendly and would likely work very well with Rogue. I think the tube bass issue is one of proper matching with the right speakers. Although I ... | |
| Help What Say You - Amp choices Undertow is 100% correct, but you need some guidance to choose tube-friendly speakers. Generally speakers with a very smooth impedance curve, and if it nominally 8 ohms rather than 4 ohms, all the better. A tube amp with the wrong speaker can resu... | |
| Preamp Synergy for GamuT amp I think your Gamut might deserve a little more investment on the pre front; that is a mighty fine amplifier. | |
| Isolation Devices for Digital Herbies makes some good isolation devices. | |
| TVC Promethius versus Bent Thank you for the link. | |
| TVC Promethius versus Bent Charlie, I'm not sure I understand the volume issue with passives in most cases. My DAC put out 3Volts and my amp plays at full power with .839Mv, I'm not sure how volume can be compromised. The other issue I have with transformers is that they ar... | |
| TVC Promethius versus Bent The S&B transformers used by Bent seem to have a great reputation, is it possible that the Promtheus trasformers are as good, even with C-core? | |
| Spendor S9e or ProAc Response D28 Arbuckle, a box that size with a 6 1/2" mid/bass driver cannot produce an honest 20Hz, I'm basing that on the laws of physics. And by honest I mean meaningful output, not whether or not there is some output. If you want "big" bass you need a big w... | |
| TVC Promethius versus Bent Well, I certainly get the sense that the two brands are very competive with no clear cut winner, which is good as I can sort of decide on price, ergonomics, and aesthetics. I had the Placette RVC which was very clear, neutral and deatailed, but no... | |
| Nos Amperex 12AX7 Bugle Boy's hard to find. Have you tried Jesse Brent? He too has a pretty good rep. | |
| Passive preamp for Tube Amp? Placette Active does not address the issue of gain for phono - it has no gain, only sophisticated buffering. | |
| Best 6922 tubes for Conrad-Johnson CT6 preamp I also ended up with the white label PQs and in my CAT amp sound like a very significant improvement over the Sovteks they replaced, but you must have reason to trust your sources as a noisy great tube brand is much worse than a good measuring and... | |
| Spendor S9e or ProAc Response D28 Given what you are considering, you should also consider Harbeth and possibly Sonus faber. Did someone say an the D28s give honest 20Hz?? I don't think so. 40Hz yes (I'm not saying there is no output at 20 Hz). | |
| Reliable tube integrated for $1000 How efficient? You may also want to take a look at the Japanese made Almaro SET integrateds, their 318B is 18 watts. And has wonderful reviews on 6mooons. | |
| Nos Amperex 12AX7 Bugle Boy's hard to find. Andy is thinking of retiring. I would take advanatage of his services while he is still at it. |