tubegroover
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| Designer Hall of Fame My guess is that anyone familiar with the ZH270 and Siegfried amplifiers might have included David Berning among the esteemed list above. Real design innovation rather than among the best of the "me too's". | |
| Most resolving, transparent amps. Dead quiet, black background, dimesnional, layered, imaging, open, extended top end - all qualities of top amps, I think. Let the music come through as it was put on the disc - no editorializing.Be careful of what you ask for! A little editorializ... | |
| Your First Concert was..... Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians at the 1964 NY World's Fair :) | |
| Most Influential American Musician of All Time? "Tvad, FWIW I think your definition of 'musician' might be a bit narrow, especially in view of how it's defined in my dictionary, i.e. a composer or performer of music and as an alternative a performer esp of instrumental music."This goes back to ... | |
| Most Influential American Musician of All Time? Gershwin is probably my favorite American songwriter/composer on any given day but the question is influential musician not greatest songwriter. Is Gershwin even the most influential songwriter of the jazz era? I don't think he is. That would prob... | |
| Most Influential American Musician of All Time? I agree with Jeffery. I really can't think of anyone that comes close to his influence from a historical perspective although I'm sure some will say Miles Davis but not from a musician's standpoint IMO atlthough his music was certainly innovative ... | |
| CAT versus Berning JafoxI personally feel that the Berning is compatable with the Merlin speakers. For that matter I find the Berning compatable with every speaker I've heard it paired due to its unique impedance converter design. The issue is one more of taste than... | |
| CAT versus Berning You might just ask Bobby Palkovic for his opinion. I'm sure he could articulate the differences between the two since he is intimately familiar with both with his speakers. | |
| What amp should be used with merlin vsm's? On the subject of low powered OTL amps I used a Transcendent T8 25 watt OTL and it worked great with the VSM but ultimately it didn't have quite enough juice for my room. For a small space it would be a consideration as it is well within your budg... | |
| Why so much trade in Audience AU24 The Audience cables are very good. I'm actually thinking of getting another pair. Why the movement? Probably because there are plenty sold. They are quite easy to resell if you decide they don't work in your system. | |
| Upgrade from Merlin VSM-M to What? I doubt that the CAT's are wanting in too many areas especially dynamics which I can't imagine the ARS or Berning are going to approach at 35 and 70 watts respectively. I too am curious to hear the ARS especially after reading David Berry's commen... | |
| Upgrade from Merlin VSM-M to What? " but if my experience ends up being like yours, who would not want to save the money and own a much smaller, lighter, and less expensive to buy and maintain, alternative to the Joule/Atma/BERNING/CAT combos that have long been used to make the Me... | |
| Berning ZH270 vs 845 SET amp "He made the comment, that for me to like the Berning amp I would have to like the sound of live music not HI fI. I thought that was interesting..." Liking one does not negate liking the other but of course there are differences. Many in this hobb... | |
| Berning ZH270 vs 845 SET amp There is one thought I would like to add to this discussion and it is the primary reason I own the zh270. What is your objective? When I first got into this hobby over 20 years ago it was to improve my system so that classical music and accoustica... | |
| Berning ZH270 vs 845 SET amp Well Mike, that may be a possibility. You could play it safe and go the SET route. Another option with those Coincidents is consideration of another OTL like Joule or Atma-sphere. Not a thing wrong with those amps. Great top to bottom frequency ex... |