pubul57
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| Best pre-amp w/phono for $1000-$1200 USED/MINT You could do a lot worse than the Mapletree Audio Design Ultra 4A SE with separate tube regulated power supply. About your price brand new, direct from Canada. | |
| SS for Merlins VSMs? I only owned the Joule LA150 MKII and then the LA150 Signature preamps which I used at various times with the amps listed in my OP. While I certainly enjoyed the Joule mono-blocks at shows, I would say no better than the Atma-sphere M60s which wer... | |
| Review: Ars Sonum Filarmonia SE Tube amp 60 watts? | |
| Pass X vs XA amps sound quality in class A range In the case of the 30 watts XA.5, clipping occurs at 130 watts into 8 ohms, higher into 4ohms. If you search the Stereophile archives, you'll find a review with performance measurements. | |
| Musical Fidelity A5, Simaudio I-5 or Krell s300i Yup. 3K | |
| Musical Fidelity A5, Simaudio I-5 or Krell s300i The Ayre is very fine, but I don't believe it is Class A as previously stated, if it were, it would very likely be more the sufficient power to drive the Vandies to very, very loud levels - in fact, I would expect the same from A/B power, especial... | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? With the right speakers, there is no reason to ever replace the Atma-sphere M60s, though I will hold on to my Music Reference RM10 MKIIs for as long as I listen to music. I thought my CAT JL2 was a keeper for life, and if they did not weigh 200lbs... | |
| Has anybody heard the new Audio Research LS 27? No question they make excellent line stages, they have been for a long time. An interesting A/B would be the all balanced LS5 versus anything before or after, I think it would hold up pretty well in comparisons (sound-wise, maybe not functionality... | |
| Cardas Cold Forging Thanks, will read, but those pesky formulas:) | |
| Has anybody heard the new Audio Research LS 27? It is certainly the case that if they don't come out with new products they won't get reviewed and they might even fall of recommended component lists because they haven't been reviewed in so long. This is especially a problem when a ten or twenty... | |
| Cardas Cold Forging Cardas on soldering verus crimping:"When we look at crimping connectors onto cable vs soldering them, I would have say that most crimped connections are better than most soldered connections. However, the best connections are soldered connections.... | |
| Who is the KING of MONOS? It would have to be the BAT Rex Monoblocs, or perhaps something by Crown. | |
| Cardas Cold Forging Al, well said. Hard to know what to do since I'm skeptical I could hear the difference, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't and to the better. Like I said before, I do wonder why this approach wasn't done long before, since the ability to do this has... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Well George, hopefully you have nipped that bad idea in the bud, hard to believe what some people will do. | |
| Cardas Cold Forging A very good question, given the importance of the golden ratio. It did always bother me that my friend the electrical engineer thought I was crazy when I explained my cable choices for my equipment. He did not think that all cables sounded the sam... |