twoleftears
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| How to accurately gauge speaker sensitivity to match with tube amp? For a change of pace, try ProAc DT8.Full tested specs here. https://planethifi.com/proac-response-dt8/#Impedance_and_electric_phase Not as accommodating as the Fritz, but still recommended for use with tubes from 25W up.For years I drove the ProAc... | |
| What are the sexiest components ever made? No comment--I'm just going to clam up. | |
| Pioneer Direct Drives - Now and then? From the Turntable Lab link."- newly designed coreless direct drive motor for higher torque, super-stable rotation" | |
| Why Don't More People Into Music Reproduction At Home Play Around With Musical Instruments I started learning clarinet around age 11. I played for 20 years or so. At 14 I also took up alto sax, and later tenor. I got quite good on the clarinet, good enough to know exactly how much daily practice it would take to get significantly bet... | |
| Your vote for greatest (covers) album Why was (covers) in parenthesis in the first place?Why not just say: Your vote for greatest album of covers? | |
| How to accurately gauge speaker sensitivity to match with tube amp? http://www.fritzspeakers.com/DreamWeaverFritzImpedancePage.asp And a bunch of comparative measurements. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Listening to the second disc of Trifonov’s 2-CD "Transcendental" Liszt set. And it’s just as extraordinarily good as the first!I’ve listened to a lot of Liszt piano over the last few months, and I have to say that I find Trifonov the most convinci... | |
| Minimonitors http://www.fritzspeakers.com/ | |
| Experience with Inakustik 3500P Power Conditioner?? @rareace I think both sides to this issue have stated their position very clearly.So now I'm curious: is the 3500 providing for your system the kind of sonic improvement that just about everyone else on this thread has reported, or did your experi... | |
| Why Don't More People Into Music Reproduction At Home Play Around With Musical Instruments My assumption has always been that the percentage of people who play/played musical instruments and who are also audiophiles is a good deal higher than the percentage of instrument players in the general population. The one thing naturally leads ... | |
| How to accurately gauge speaker sensitivity to match with tube amp? Of course, this presupposes that the speakers you've become interested in have been measured reliably and that an impedance curve has been published.Fritz's standmounts do very well with low-powered tubes (I heard them with a Modwright SET headpho... | |
| Where on earth is the Belles Virtuoso? P.S. the original plan had been for the Virtuoso Integrated to be the first product in the new line to market, but once David had packed everything in there that he wanted to put in, the casework was so deep that it mandated some serious rethinkin... | |
| Where on earth is the Belles Virtuoso? Up-to-date info. The Belles Virtuoso power amp is finished and available for purchase through Audio Connection. @lobinero has one. Next up will be the Virtuoso preamp, which is very close. The integrated will follow, combining elements of those... | |
| Don't like vinyl Naugahyde is the way to go... | |
| Best used integrated under $5k Missing from your list: Ayre AX-5, Sim Moon 600i. Modwright 200 and 225. |