roberjerman
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| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. I still prefer US, European or Japanese vintage production over the new stuff! | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. I have bought a set of 4 Gold Lion (Russian) KT-66's for use in my pair of Heath W5's. $35 a tube! Originals sell for $200+ a tube (UK). They sure do look real nice! I still have the original US Tungsol 5881's in use. I wonder if the Russian ones ... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. So Roger: new production tubes from our old Cold War rivals. Can the Russians really make and sell quality tubes at such low prices? A quartet of 12AX7's for $18 (shipping free!). We did that ourselves back 50-60 years ago. But that was when US tu... | |
| What is the first album you purchased, and do you still have it? And the Thunderball soundtrack completed the trilogy! | |
| What is the first album you purchased, and do you still have it? My second LP purchase soon after was the Dr. No soundtrack - soon after seeing that movie! How about that Ursula Andress - hot! | |
| What is the first album you purchased, and do you still have it? Age 12 - bought the Goldfinger soundtrack after seeing the movie in 1964. Played and enjoyed it on a GE console stereo. What a hot cover! Now long gone! | |
| Discontinued equipment that you wish were still here. What do you miss or think will miss? @yogiboy my Proton integrated has input/output jacks, same as some NAD's. A most useful feature! | |
| Discontinued equipment that you wish were still here. What do you miss or think will miss? The return of the Beveridge Model 1 with integral high voltage drive would be most appreciated! Also see my post above about the KLH Nine. Two great electrostats worth reviving! | |
| Best bookshelf speakers My JBL 4312's and 166's have plenty of dynamics and bass-slam - but you can't put them on a shelf! | |
| Best bookshelf speakers Bass and treble response are fine and in balance with that fabulous midrange! HiFi News did a listening/measuring test of various iterations of the LS3/5A's some years ago. Worth looking up! | |
| Best bookshelf speakers Au contraire, Geoff! Long-term listening with the LS3/5A's is most satisfying! And I'm a Quad owner, too! | |
| Best bookshelf speakers Get a First Watt F5 amp to go with LS3/5A's and you'll be in Heaven! This is the combination I use with the Rogers. | |
| Best bookshelf speakers The LS3/5A has the "magic"! The others above merely sound "good"! | |
| Best bookshelf speakers The LS3/5A was designed in the mid-Seventies by the BBC as a monitor speaker for use in the limited space of a recording van. Emphasis was on a coherent, natural midrange, particularly voice. I'll take them over ANY of the above listed! Falcon Aco... | |
| Best bookshelf speakers A secondhand pair of LS3/5A's (Rogers, Spendor, Goodmans, KEF ... ). Available usually for under $2K. A true classic that will holds its value over time! Mine cost less than $1K (Rogers) and came from an EBay seller in Lithuania, of all places! |