warrenh
Responses from warrenh
| HELP: I need a solid state amp with a tube sound Sorry my fellow audiophools. I leapt before looking. I didn't see the price limitations. You could go with the YBA Integre DT model. Less tube like than the Passion, but still sweet and 50 killer, punching watts. I sold mine,(after 7 years) to mov... | |
| HELP: I need a solid state amp with a tube sound Jctubes,I agree and disagree. I own the YBA Passion Integre. For my ears, this integrated is very sweet, tubelike, and offers the best that ss can deliver. Yes, it's definitely not a tube, but, eyes closed with some great jazz--you can be fooled t... | |
| Mark Levinson 383 or MCintosh 6900 for B&W 804's Neither. I've heard both and elected to buy the YBA Passion Integre. This is one beautiful, sweet, tubelike, best of ss, integrated, out there. Try it. Put it to your tympanics...warren | |
| Jeff Rowland Concentra VS Krell KAV300i??????? You're gonna kill me. Can't resist--'tis the nature of the audio beast in me. I own the YBA Passion Integre. Powerful, sweet, tubelike, fabulous bass extension-definition, and the usual host of other audio lingo. The JRDG is amazing, but the Passi... | |
| And What Did You Get Your Wife For Christmas? I bought her an Audio Aero Prima. Fancey that, she thought it looked ugly around her neck. She said maybe it would look better on me. IT DOES! Happy Christmas you audiophools... | |
| Amplifier Hum If you haven't (I'm sure you would have put that in your post) added anything new; sounds like transformer problems to me. I don't mess with electric. I'd bring it to a pro.. | |
| Quality Bookshelf Speakers Revel M20s. I love mine. Discounted they will fall into your price range. Why anyone would want to put speakers on a bookshelf, beats me. The best way to kill a speaker. The problem is, with "bookshelf" speakers, to sound their best, they must res... | |
| Integrated amps and stereophile ratings confusion? If you've been into tubes, here's a wonderful (SS) upgrade that will give you a lot of the best tubes have to offer and the advantages of ss: YBA Passion Integre. 100 watts per channel of killer sound. I've had mine 6 weeks, now, and am still find... | |
| Sophias vs. Revel Studios You got one high class problem there. The Revels need some serious amp power...be aware of that...Will narrow ($ wise) your amp options....unless of course money isn't a factor. Hey, but isn't it always? | |
| What's My Problem? Pat, It sounds to me that you have what's called plain ole amp clipping. Your amp is 200 watts per channel into 4 ohms. That's really not that much if your speakers crave power, as you say yours do. You realy want to consider the ratio of output p... | |
| Speaker break in period It's a myth, BUT give them 200 hours at a significant volume. | |
| And what do Maggies sound like near a wall...... crap! one foot= 1 dead speaker 3 to 4 feet= killer sound, one of the best.. | |
| Help with $600 to $800 integrated amp I sold my YBA Integre (not the DT model) for $625. You don't have this integrated on your list, perhaps because of the price. If you push the envelope, just a tad, you may find, (not on the block often, I wonder why?) an Integre DT.(if you can fin... | |
| Peculiar problem? Show me the light... That is just what I have done. Integrated and CDP in the Stealth (different outlets, though) and I plugged the sub into the same double outlet that the Stealth is plugged into. Wahla! Perfection. No crackling, quiet, black background. As it should... | |
| Peculiar problem? Show me the light... Well, here's the next chapter in this saga. Seems, only myself and John are interested, but never-the-less I shall move on. I hook up my sub via an extension cord to another circuit. Sonic bliss. Everything's perfect. So, I figure, it's the dedica... |