stanman
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| Ten audiophile commandments It is better to have stereo equip. in times of no money than money in times of no stereo equip. | |
| ESS speakers "Translinear" Transstatic Just found this thread, picked up a pair of m102's (1980 I believe)recently and am quite impressed with them. They are all original,only needed a good cleaning and a little touch up on some edges. Was able to get original grill cloth fromESS. They... | |
| Should I Try a Tube Preamp? YES,YES, YES!!!!!!!!!!! Added a tube pre to my parasound HCA 1200 and OMG!! That's all I can say!!!! | |
| Tube Basics 101: What is a rectifier tube for? Just went through this situtation myself! Brent jessee helped a great deal! Up graded to siemans 12at7 tubes from rca's- huge improvement! Than upgraded rec.and what it did was increase presence,depth,sound stage and gave a punch to the low end!it... | |
| what brand of tubes to buy? Don't ya just love this "hobby" | |
| what brand of tubes to buy? Ya I wish I could do the same with speakers!stuck with 3 set of MAIN speakers! I now have to "roll" speakers too!!! LOL just can't deside which is best. Truth is they all are best, just different. | |
| what brand of tubes to buy? Got some siemens from b.jessie and wow,just increadable.saving for telefunkin "what the hell" gone this far might as well go all the way! Thanks for all the insight | |
| prob./ multi-room zone EQ? Just tweeking different speakers used in different rooms off a common amp. The rooms are diff.size shape and accoustics need to tune some freq. For each room differently.thinking someone makes a "say" 12 band or more grafic EQ. With storeable curv... | |
| You know you're an audiophile if-- When u "roll speakers" as well as tubes!!! | |
| What's the oldest piece of gear in your system? All my equip is vintage. But how bout 1979ish DBX 3BX expander.1980 ess eclipse M102 (hiel tweeter) speakers.also 1983 polk RTA 12Bs speakers.an old think 90's parasound HCA 1200 amp.benched @ 286w @ 8 olms I estamite around 400w @ 4 olms | |
| relationship between rec. and the other tubes? Thanks so much for all your imput.1st tube pre and Trying to get "tubeucated" LOL | |
| relationship between rec. and the other tubes? Can I assume by that, the rec. Tube is going to have a less "dramatic" impact on the sound of any particular music piece than the signal tubes will? | |
| what brand of tubes to buy? Thanks for the input, ya he's trying to intice me,and the sob did just that!LOL the sonics and sound quality ie: detail,and presense is intense. Did not think this amp and speakers (vintage 92 epi 150/2/3 were capable of such sound preasures and d... | |
| how to pick a preamp? Thanks for all the imput so far,very helpful! If I can help finetune peramators, would need a direct mode as I prefer direct over stero mode, I'm lazy and would like remote control phono, tape inputs also I intend to play with a dbx unit I have fo... | |
| how to pick a preamp? Yes I would want phono, as far as tubes go if affordable and replaceable (tubes that is) no objections but nieve as to the differances in proformance. |