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| Most educational audition you ever had? +2 Mrtennis.Isochronism, "At the 2012 Waldorf NYC Audio show the room with the Quad speakers was the best sounding room to me by a good measure."I absolutely agree with you. In fact, after hearing Robin Wyatt's room, I put my money where my mouth ... | |
| Most educational audition you ever had? My epiphany came when I finally got to listen to a pair of Legacy loudspeakers I'd lusted over for several years. I'd gone over them in the mailings I routinely received more times than I could count. Everything seemed perfect: lots of woofer cone... | |
| Most musical stereo tube amp under 5K.. Sutts, "Amazing when I think about all the amps I have been through since originally posting this..."Haha, me too! Funny, I began talking about Jadis and Quicksilver, and after more tube amps than one would would believe, that's (and Dynaco) where... | |
| How hot are they ? All things being equal, SET amplifiers run hotter than typical EL34 integrateds, as they need to operate in Class A, whereas most of the former run Class A/B.That said, you should not find a 300B objectionable. And, depending on how hot your parti... | |
| Any Audio Show in NYC in 2014?? Personally, the show this year is a big disappointment. People from Boston, Philadelphia (myself), Baltimore, etc. can get into Manhattan easily, and that has driven the soaring attendance the past few years. Moving it to Brooklyn this year will s... | |
| Jadis Orchestra vs Jadis i 35 The differences come down to two different design paths.The JOR uses the Dynaco circuit. It's a fixed (adjustable) bias amplifier. The i35 uses the Mullard long-tail pair circuit, with cathode (auto) bias. Apart from the aforementioned front-end, ... | |
| Why aren't new vacuum tubes as good as old ones? I'm encouraged by the sonics of many current production tubes, especially some coming out of China. Many rank right up there with the legendary tubes, though more often than not, the old American and European variants still hold the edge in absolu... | |
| triode versus pentode For what it's worth, in all but a very few cases, when high-end audio amplifiers label themselves pentode, they're actually ultralinear in operation.Ultralinear is a combination / compromise between triode and pentode. You could argue it's the bes... | |
| Looking for drivers for Fried Beta and Q5's? Yindi of Shanghai, China, known in the West as (Shanghai) Silver Flute manufactured the drivers you mentioned. As is the normal custom in the industry (despite claims to the contrary by most loudspeaker manufacturers), they were an off the shelf i... | |
| What is the best planar or electrostatic speaker? I've not heard them. But to answer your question, in my opinion, if you want to produce music in your home, the Quad ESL57, are not only the best planar or electrostatic speaker, but the best speaker, period. | |
| Proofreader wanted Agreed. As in other measures, grammar in this society has reached an all-time low. No matter the resource level at my (very large and well-respected regional) company, basic acumen in the English language remains more or less nonexistent.Personall... | |
| Wishing everyone a "Merry Christmas" Thanks very much, Ghosthouse. Merry Christmas! | |
| Bias adjustment for Jadis DA5 Congratulations, Jacques! Sounds like you've done a fantastic job. From now on, biasing your JOR will be a walk in the park.Glad to hear you like the sound of the amp. You can keep it biased at 145 - 150 mV. It's still running exceptionally conser... | |
| Bias adjustment for Jadis DA5 Thank you, Jacques.Yes, for the sake of the output transformers, which are a bit of an achilles heel of the JOR, you should always connect a transformer coupled tube amplifier to a load. Loudspeakers will work fine. You don't need to have any inpu... | |
| Bias adjustment for Jadis DA5 Weissenb, are you comfortable with working with high voltages? The JOR is 450+V, certainly a more than dangerous level. If you don't have experience with this, you should have a local tech handle it for you.You need to take the amplifier apart, re... |