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Klipsch Forte ii too bright, or is it my room ? Not familiar with the Fortes but back in the eighties had a pair of La Scalas. Happy when I bought them, happier still when I sold them. Sorry, just not my cup of tea and this was when matched with the original Mac 275 and/or Marantz 2´s ( these I... | |
The best tube poweramp. . What do you think about ? +1 CAT JL5 | |
Power cord choice? ESP MusicCord-PRO ES Power Cord@ $ 500 1.5 M. | |
What’s the benefit of placing speakers like this? (diagonally at the corner) Echoing Redwood set up a pair of Celestion 600s that way in living room 30 years ago looking to save space and accidentally discovered the added benefits of clearer and cleaner sound on the whole. Speakers in rectangular rooms sounded muddy even w... | |
Are MULLARD NOS EL34s and LTA ZOTL40 REF worth the price of admission? disregard the # 6 typo | |
Are MULLARD NOS EL34s and LTA ZOTL40 REF worth the price of admission? @ ghasley & jjss49 +1@ OP Have accumulated > 80 NOS EL34s over time, ever since my first tube amps ( back in the day, Marantz 2s), Mullards, Philips & Telefunkens. For beauty of tone I go with the Mullards especially the earlier 6 mu... | |
Who, do you think, designs the best looking tube-based devices? Marantz 2Shindo MontilleMcIntosh MC2301 | |
Which good discrete R2R multibit DAC & why NOS ? Please enlighten:@georgehifi "But I can’t find what the Reimyo uses for dac chips, my guess would be the R2R PCM1704K’s, I don’t think it’s discrete R2R"What is the difference between a discrete R2R & non discete R2R DAC ?@djones51" it wasn’t ... | |
Which good discrete R2R multibit DAC & why NOS ? Thanks George for that informative list.Thank you also Lalitk Your views echo my concerns as to how much of an improvement, if any, an external DAC plus the added cable expense would make.As of yet, no immediate plans to get into streaming, too ma... | |
Which good discrete R2R multibit DAC & why NOS ? Thanks jond for the clarification on NOS. Should have deducted as much considering context. | |
NOS tube alternatives for Herron VTSP 3A r02 After 6 months of listening with the stock EH tubes, switched in 2 Siemens Cca and 4 Philips E188cc ( didn´t have 6 of a kind) and the results were purely positive. Totally gone was any hint of electronic haze or the glare & brightne... | |
Where are Conicident Speaker Technology electronics made ? Thanks for your responses. Reason for posting question was since I couldn´t not find any clues as to where they were manufactured, either in literature or in photos of the back plates of the components themselves I suspected a Chinese origin, wh... | |
NOS tube alternatives for Herron VTSP 3A r02 Thanks for your input jmolsberg .Coinincidentally it is precisley the Dutch E188CC / 7308 Amperex I´m most incinled to try. Will most likely contact Herron for a set of theirs and compare. Should Herrons prove superior can always use the NOS i... | |
My rankings of some classical violin music in high resolution @ tdimler Also regarding Carmingnola......not available in high-res but his Four Seasons recording is brilliantly engineered....the CD sounds great.With the Venice Baroque or Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca ?Thanks | |
What class of amplifier has the most high definition sound ? @ vt4c+1 Focusing on bias class is a waste of time. Find a good pairing with your speaker is more important. Difficult speakers will reduce the choice of amplifiers. (Except for this last sentence ... ¨ Shun those 85dB speakers.¨ in which I also ... |