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| Suggestions for a tube integrated under $3000 You can easily get an Ayon Spirit 2 used for that price... and if you bargain you can get an Ayon Spirit 3 new for very near that price.The Ayon is a wonderful integrated | |
| Help on Electronic Problem I definitely do not know what I am doing! I will call the fireplace people. I was thinking that maybe it was a wall wiring issue (older home --- thinking that the FP when the fan went on overloaded the circuit or something --- yeah... I do not kno... | |
| Help on Electronic Problem It is a gas fireplace. When it is about to have the fan go on, the static starts... often the static stops once the fan is on (though, not always). It does have a full-time pilot light. I am not sure if I can control when the fan is on or not.By t... | |
| 4 speakers/two channel Klaudio.How do you drive your subwoofer? Is it self powered? and how does it get signal (from which integrated or which amp)? | |
| 4 speakers/two channel agreed.When I have friends over and they hear the difference from the 4 speakers to the two you hear comments like "wow... if you went from your 8K speakers to 30K speakers the improvement would not even be close to the improvement here." It is st... | |
| Warm Rich Lush Speakers...Recommendations? There are people who really like the lively, vibrant sound that --- to them is exciting and more engaging --- and to me is harsh. It is, of course, in the ears of the listener. Though there are "camps" so to speak. I assume our original poster ---... | |
| Warm Rich Lush Speakers...Recommendations? I'll define warm, rich and lush... from my perspective. It is recorded piano sound that is not thin, and has the body and size and heft of sound that approaches the real thing (as opposed to a miniaturized sound like that of a wraith, w/o the body... | |
| Warm Rich Lush Speakers...Recommendations? As Hopat21 says --- Vandersteen makes pretty warm sounding speakers --- all across the spectrum of their line. I own some lower end Vandersteens (in a secondary system) and they are warm sounding. That said, every one of the speakers listed by tho... | |
| Warm Rich Lush Speakers...Recommendations? another thought. Lush fullness in a stereo system is very volume dependent. As the volume goes up, fullness, palpable presence, and richness also goes up. So... to get that richness, you want to play louder. But... as volume goes up, if there is a... | |
| Warm Rich Lush Speakers...Recommendations? The warm lush sound that ultimately emanates from your speakers is often as much, if not more so, a function of your CD player or pre-amp than it is your speakers. To get that lushness that you want, you might seriously take a look at your electro... | |
| Exceptional value in speakers today? Well...I am going to go more mainstream than most of the posters here and say that , generally, the two best selling speaker brands in High End history --- Magnepan and Vandersteen --- are so successful because they sell great sounding, high-value... | |
| Help with amplifier choice I have a pair of Montana EpS2 speakers --- listen to Jazz and vocals and sit 9-10 feet away --- and I use an Ayon Spirit 2 tube amp played in triode mode all the time at ca. 35 watts. And.... It is wonderful. Plenty of power. Tons of power. Blow y... | |
| Ayon Spirit 3 what speaker combo will u recommend? Sionlim:I have the Spirit 2 and have swapped tubes an array of times --- both the KT88's (amp) and the 12AU7's (preamp). At least in my experience (and that of others I know), the sonic differences are, generally, greater when swapping the 12AU7's... | |
| Ayon Spirit 3 what speaker combo will u recommend? I have a Spirit II and drive a pair of Montana EPS II speakers --- and the combo is wonderful. There is a pair of the Montana's on sale for under 4k right now. The combo is rich sounding, smooth (yet dynamic), exciting sounding but not harsh. A gr... | |
| Back In the Day Back then, as some have pointed out already, there were far fewer manufacturers of high end equipment than now... but far more critical a limitation back then --- and the main reason why constant upgrades were rare for audiophiles (even if they ha... |