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| Tube Life Having an extra set of tubes lets you gauge the sonic deterioration of your main tubes. Such is good practice. Also, tubes do fairly often catastrophically fail (one channel goes silent... that kind of thing) --- and, by having an extra set, you c... | |
| Sonic difference K2CD vs SACD It might be added to that while mastering over format is the biggest issue dictating sound quality (no arguments here) --- it should be noted that the hardware utilized in the playback matters as well --- there are some really good redbook CD play... | |
| Evolution Acoustics MMMicroOne JTinn:Thanks for the responses. I did not know that you are as well connected to Playback Designs, Wave Kinetics and were the importer of darTZeel. When you say "I have responsibilities to keep those products seen at trade shows" that makes perfec... | |
| Evolution Acoustics MMMicroOne JTinn:You ask about magico and do they need to have to have real world mating of equipment too... well, of course.The Magicos cost 25K --- anyone purchasing such speakers, based on that price, will likely have 35K to maybe 45K in electronics for a... | |
| Evolution Acoustics MMMicroOne JTINN:I in no way intimated that the speakers were mediocre. I said that I do not doubt that they are fine speakers. That said...while it is true that a fine speaker will show forth the quality of the electronics feeding the speakers and that it i... | |
| Evolution Acoustics MMMicroOne I do not doubt that these speakers are excellent for 2K and maybe are flat excellent. That said, to really know in a real world setting, you would need to mate these 2K speakers with electronics at a level that most people buying a 2K pair of spea... | |
| Which one defines sound: Pre amp or Power amp? For what it is worth, most audiophiles will tell you that changing out the weakest link will make the biggest difference on overall sound. Thus, if your amp is the weak link, changing it out will make the most difference. If it is the preamp that ... | |
| Genelex Gold Lion KT-88 reissued tubes Larryrup Perhaps you can try the Chinese tubes from Shugaung (spelling?). My tube guy says they sound glorious --- but are also thought to be unreliable (like the GL tubes... maybe worse). It is frustrating, this tube thing ... like a high mainten... | |
| Genelex Gold Lion KT-88 reissued tubes Typo on the last post --- they are Gold Lions --- not Red Lions... perhaps it was my anger over how readily the Gold Lions fry that I had the color red in view.So... stay clear of the Gold Lions... unless you are OK with replacing them often. | |
| Genelex Gold Lion KT-88 reissued tubes Like so many others have posted here, I too had Genelex Gold Lion Tubes fry (with likely no more than 150 hrs on them) and take with it my amp. In any event, the shop made clear that the Genelex KT88's failure was the culprit. So... I guess I am n... | |
| Need a Speaker Recommendation As I have before recommended.. I recommend again a pair of Vandersteen 1c's (or 2c's used). The 1c's are, for the price, quite amazing --- full bodied, pretty much full range. They play really well at low volume. They image well. Actually, they ha... | |
| Notable speakers at THE SHOW June 2011 Bodotes:I took some heat in other threads for stating that the Zu speakers were well.. unimpressive. My exposure was at a Las Vegas CES (in a hotel room) --- and like you, I left there thinking "wow... that was not at all good." perhaps it was the... | |
| budget speakers for Musical Fidelity A300 ? My friend... I suggest a pair of Vandersteen 1c speakers --- or a used pair of Vandersteen 2c speakers. Both are wonderfully full-bodied, play well at low volume, are, for the money, really, really, really good. The vandersteen speakers at this le... | |
| Ayon CD2 is AMAZING Melbguy1:Yep. the truth is usually in the middle. An aside. I really wish I could hear, in my system or any system for that matter, some of the really high end Ayon (and other companies stuff too.) I live in the boonies and there is one high end d... | |
| Ayon CD2 is AMAZING Melbguyl:No I have not heard the higher end stuff --- which is why I stated in the above post that "Of course the performance/value relative to equal cost alternatives might get better as cost goes up for Ayon... who knows. Maybe some of you do...... |