trelja
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| Upgrade from Audio Physic Virgos to ??? I'd love to hear the Caldera.The Virgo II indeed are incredibly good speakers. I hear a lot of newer loudspeakers with higher pricing and a lot of panache that don't make music the way the Virgo II do.Also, the second (I think) iteration of the Te... | |
| What amps use the KT120 tubes? Jadis and Rogue are now using them. | |
| Prior or current owners of PSB Stratus Gold The Golds can present very good detail.To me, getting them to sound right is more a question of the amplifier you pair with them. Unfortunately, in my experience, most owners will never get to really hear their Gods because of their amplifier not ... | |
| Collecting Within One Brand I should sell off a bunch of these but I have the following Fried loudspeakers:1) A/62) Beta3) Valhalla (C satellites with O subwoofers) - Bud's own pair4) Valhalla - home made5) SubwooferI can likely bundle 1, 2, and 5 as some sort of HT package.... | |
| Custom Builder For P/P Power Pentode Amplifier Our friend, Sabocat59, had an amplifier built from JWN this past summer. It looked like an especially good product and deal. He was more than stoked about it.Here's hoping he checks in with us soon. | |
| Christmas Music and Audiophiles? Always a personal highlight of the holidays, each year the University of Pennsylvania's radio station, WXPN http://www.xpn.org/, puts on a 24 hour show of quirky holiday music. Incredibly cool. I encourage anyone who appreciates the music enumerat... | |
| Christmas Music and Audiophiles? Blkadr, "Especially hate that countrified tune about a kid buying shoes for his dying mommy. I will pass on the sob rag, pass me the barf bag."Amen, brother! You've got to get some serious consideration for post of the year with that one.Excellent... | |
| Horning owners what amps have you used? Ralph, I think it comes down to what I relayed Bud being adamant about - a backloaded horn (BLH) and true TL are the converse of one another.I believe your seminal work was done with a pair of Frieds, yes? The Frieds couple magically with the Atma... | |
| Horning owners what amps have you used? Sebrof, "You either have an amp designed for a 300B or an amp designed for a 2A3. Therefore there will be variables. What am I missing?"Buy or build an amplifier that can run both tubes. The only difference one needs to account for is the heater f... | |
| Horning owners what amps have you used? Charles1dad, this is a classic case of one of Bud Fried's absolute favorite topics, cognitive dissonance.Simply put, you've proved unable to address the question I've put to you multiple times.You may have compared (some 300B, some 2A3) different ... | |
| Christmas Music and Audiophiles? I'm definitely a fan Christmas music. Kind of like the McRib. It comes around once a year, and those six weeks are about all one can/should take on.Ditto on Charlie Brown Christmas - should be in any rotation. To round that out, try "The Ultimate ... | |
| Horning owners what amps have you used? Charles1dad, "I disagree with that based on my own experiences."Thus far, you've provided ZERO evidence that you were able to compare apples to apples when it comes to the 2A3 and 300B vacuum tubes.Again, I will say, you need to hold ALL of the ot... | |
| Horning owners what amps have you used? Charles1dad and Johnk, what you both have said is 100% true.However, for whatever reason, you're missing my point that head to head - again keeping all other variables constant, the 2A3 will outshine the 300B tube when it comes to bass response. A... | |
| Horning owners what amps have you used? Charles1dad, I would say if Dpe's results were truly excellent, this thread would not exist.Holding the variables you mentioned constant, the 2A3 tube will most definitely eclipse the 300B in terms of low end response and impact. Taking the Lowthe... | |
| Horning owners what amps have you used? Believe it or not, these speakers do well with some power. Or, at least, a lower power amp with some bottom end. Well, maybe it's not surprising, given the amount of woofer cone they have. The wrong amp will really show poorly, far worse than with... |