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| Upgrading path from Merlin VSM black magic Sorry for being off topic again, but I want to point something out for Ars Sonum Filarmonia (and Gran Filarmonia) owners that may see this thread. The designer of the amp (Ricardo Hernandez) does not recommend using KT77's in his amp.This is not a... | |
| Upgrading path from Merlin VSM black magic If the room is somewhat narrow leaving the VSM/TSM speakers somewhat close to the sidewall, toeing them out can result in more reflected energy from the side wall which can make the mids sound more pushed (and staging would be hurt too). So, in... | |
| Joule Electra preamp and Aragon 4004 mkII @atmasphere Boy Ralph, that brings back some (fond) memories! Me and my older brother shared one of those in my early teens. My dad picked it up used - basically it was my first amplifier! No wonder I like tubes so much! I have to imagine a refurb... | |
| Joule Electra preamp and Aragon 4004 mkII @foster_9 I think I can help. Reach out to me via e-mail and I can e-mail you a 150MKII manual I have in PDF (the manuals were often copies of copies, so some pages may not be easy to read, but it will do the Job). My Joule Info web-page ( http://... | |
| Merlin speakers @mpit -If you have not already reached out to me via phone or e-mail (or my website sigsound.com ) already. LMK what questions you have.FWIW, I am not of much help for the really old Merlins (the stuff made in the 80's and early 90's before the V... | |
| LM 518ia wth Merlin VSM While I have not used this amp with the VSM, I have used a couple of 845 to basted SE amplifiers on the VSMs at one time or another over the past many years. First off, 20 to 25 W does a pretty good job on the VSM. It is plenty power to get to mod... | |
| Upgrading path from Merlin VSM black magic Dave, you are not the only person who wanted Bobby to make a bigger VSM. Your idea is not a bad one, alas I am not a speaker designer/builder... and the speaker manufacturing business is a very difficult and competitive one (not inexpensive to do ... | |
| Upgrading path from Merlin VSM black magic @dgarretson I'm sure your mods helped a bunch... the Battery BAM is (obviously) built to a certain price level and to have certain features (like the choice of the external raw feeder power supply used because of its performance, cost, and abilit... | |
| Upgrading path from Merlin VSM black magic @dgarretson At one time probably 10 plus years ago I had a customers Velodyne (single 15 inch model) on hand... I tired like heck to get it to work well (with my VSMs) in my 11.3' by 20' by 7.5' room with zero luck... the room would just not coop... | |
| Upgrading path from Merlin VSM black magic Interesting discussion! :-)I can't add any info about alternative speaker choices (given my biases :-) , not that I can think of anything besides some of the speakers already mentioned which would approach close to full range or full range type pe... | |
| Any love for the Belles Aria or other recent Belles amplifier? @leahy Having first hand experience (as a Power Modules dealer) with the 350A Ref, the 150RefV2, the Aria, and the Soloist amps (which BTW, Dave Belles is not making the soloist separates anymore and the Solisit integrated would be a special order... | |
| Speakers to pair with the Ars Sonum Filarmonia tube amp? I am late to the party here, but I don;t get to these forums much given how busy I have been.Yes, it can cost over $1,000 to update a pair of older TSMs... basically a speaker like a pair of TSM-MM would get completely disassembled, the crossover ... | |
| Good preamp with Merlin TSM speakers? @soundsrealaudio Based on your comment, I see you are focusing on (and sounds like have only heard) the one version of the LA-150 (the MK1) line stage which was made for a couple years which used the 6H30 and the 6C45 tubes in the line stage. No, ... | |
| Joule Electra For folks looking for a information resource on Joule-Electra gear, I have expanded a page on my web-site with various information I have collected over the years. On this page are copies of various product literature, white papers, show hand-out... | |
| Anyone Know the fuse size in the Joule- Electra VZN100 and LA-300 pre amp @fluffers Sorry I do not have the fuse values for all the Joule gear committed to memory... (plus the amps rarely blow fuses unless something is (very) wrong) with the wide range of amps and preamps made over the years, I need to look this stuff u... |