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| Tube Watts Vs. Soild-State Watts? http://www.tubes4hifi.com/bob.htm#ST12060 wpc tube amp$ 929 kit without tubes$1580 wired, with tubes, ready to runhttp://www.tubes4hifi.com/bob.htm#M125120 watt monobloc pair$1778 kit without tubes$2795 wired, with tubes, ready to runPrices includ... | |
| Tube vs Solid State I congratulate you on considering bi-amping. Here's the gear I'd use for this effort. First off I'd get the DDRC-24 from miniDSP. It comes with a license for using DIRAC room measurement software. https://www.minidsp.com/products/dirac-series... | |
| low power tube amp The low wattage won't damage your speakers. The only question is whether or not you're getting enough level and do they sound good. If not and you love tubes, check out:http://www.tubes4hifi.com/bob.htm#ST120 | |
| Best Cheap Amps for Magneplanar Speakers Nobody has mentioned Hafler? Really? The question is "cheap amps", right? The Hafler DH500 is a good sounding, beefy amp and not all that hard to find. As I write this, there's one on EBay right now, in a "Buy-it-now" for $395. The descripti... | |
| Looking for preamp recommendations to go with First Watt J2 - Under $1K on used market Build the tubes4hifi SP14 kit at under $1000 and get something to compete with those $7000 tube wonders. Totally killer.http://tubes4hifi.com/pre11.htm#SP14For a modest amount more, they'll build it for you. | |
| Honing down the speaker shortlist ~$5K Build the Linkwitz LX521 or Orion systems. You can readily do it within your budget. You'll get a loudspeaker system to rival ANYTHING. Absolutely killer. Great imaging.AND it's a LOT more fun than just wandering down to the audio salon and l... | |
| Dual subs and room size What wattsperchannel said. | |
| Please help ...integrated amp under $1200 Is there some reason that you have to have an integrated amp? When you buy an integrated amp, you are committed to only having only that power rating and sound. What do you do when you change speakers? And you don't say anything about how much ... | |
| MBL omnidirectional speakers. How do they sound ? I think they're a very good loudspeaker. I also think they're not a good value. There are other loudspeakers I like as well if not better, for less money.In this league, I'd encourage you to audition the big Avalon loudspeakers. You can get so... | |
| Music Server Last comment. Though I'm a total Linux-head, if you're willing to live with a Windows machine, both JRiver ($50) and Banshee (free) run on that platform as well. And truth be told, Windows Media Player isn't bad either. If you know enough of ho... | |
| Music Server The original post was about the $7500 Antipodes server, which is nothing more than the Fedora 20 version of Linux with it’s own music management software. My little $250 Ubuntu Linux server does all the things you want from a music server and does... | |
| Music Server What *IS* it with people who have so much money they feel they need to spend it on something that costs 30 times as what they need to spend? Antipodes is based upon Fedora 20, the experimenter’s version of Redhat Linux. It is not something that wi... | |
| True audio stories! Do you have any? Back in the mid-70's, I was hanging out one evening with my friend Tom Tutay, who now does a lot of tube amp work. He'd just gotten in a Dyna ST150 solid state amp, and as was his practice back then, he went about beefing up the power supply. He... | |
| Looking for a new pre-amp!! For just under $1000, you can build the SP14 kit from VTA and get something to set up against those much, much more expensive preamps you see on Audiogon.http://www.tubes4hifi.com/SP14.htm...or you could build the same sort of thing from scratch u... | |
| Speakers for 15K - Discounts Forget spending $15k on this. Build the Linkwitz LX521 system for 1/3rd the price, get a loudspeaker at least as good and likely better, and being this is a DIY project, you'll have much, MUCH more enjoyment from your system. Spend your $10k sav... |