wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| new tung sol kt 120 My KT120s weren't that expensive, and they're back in the amp as of today. After comparing them to the other tubes I think I'm gonna hang with these for a while. | |
| KT120 transformer failures Nope...but you should feel free to call them and bet they'll give you the info you want. I merely described to them the "filament headroom" warnings that I kept noticing in the KT120 descriptions and they said there's plenty of transformer headroo... | |
| Tubes vs Solid State Tube amps are more fun. There I said it. | |
| new tung sol kt 120 They work great in my new Jolida JD502P...I talked to everybody except the janitor (unless I DID talk to the janitor) at Jolida before risking transformer meltdown and was assured it was fine...they do run hotter than 6550s, but sound more refined... | |
| Solid State Pre-Amp: OK to Use With Tube Amp? I had an HCA 1000A for years...bought it new actually. Great sounding amp with tons of power...input level controls, built like a tank. Sort of all the amp one needs really. I don't think tube amps are for everyone...fiddly things really, and they... | |
| Solid State Pre-Amp: OK to Use With Tube Amp? As an aside: I have a 60 watt Jolida (new) and it is interesting to hear how the thing sounds at that wattage, relative to SS amps I've owned (with high current power supplies). I really don't buy the "tube amp wattage sounds like a multiple of SS... | |
| KT120 transformer failures Damn...that's such sad new for CL-120 users everywhere. I hope they can go on somehow to find meaning in this otherwise tube specific world we share as they stand in the cold shadows with their frostbitten noses pressed against the window hopeless... | |
| Could use your advice re: tube gear I second the sub thing...been using a old REL Q150e and it really makes everything around it sing. | |
| need 2 channel amp Ditto the Jolida 502P (note to Wilson 667..the KT120's haven't melted it yet)...everyone should have one of these and if you don't have one, well...that's too damn bad. | |
| KT120 transformer failures The Roswell crash proves that interstellar space aliens should NOT be using Russian tubes (back then from OUR future no less) without robust transformer filament windings.I have no idea what "Smoffat" is, or what a CL-120 is unless you mean the ol... | |
| Could use your advice re: tube gear I just bought a new Jolida JD502P power amp, had it "factory upgraded/modded", and stuck a quartet of new matched KT120s in it. All for close to your price point. It sounds wonderful, bass is tight, mids warm, and treble accurate and sweet. | |
| KT120 transformer failures According to my research (kinda lame...consists of merely asking on these forums and talking to some "tube head" designers and "experts") there has never been a transformer failure in any amp in the history of the world from using KT120s. The enti... | |
| Tube Preamp/solid pwr amp or solid pre/ tube pwr I'm solidly on the solid state pre to tube amp bandwagon. In fact, I said it on another thread just moments ago. I'm not a solid state person as much as a "water based meat pile" (I think that's the proper scientific description). My stereo rig au... | |
| Any way to "improve" a Conrad Johnson MF 2500 I'm seriously anti hum...I've been a serial "ground floater" for years (including pro audio live sound...although with electric bands the musicians may be mildly electrocuted) and even found a NOS "PS Audio Humbuster III" which really knocks out m... | |
| Need info on amp rec. for these Thiel cs2.4's A high quality SS preamp from any number of companies into a push pull tube amp, also from lots of companies...problem (maybe) solved. I run a brilliantly overbuilt but extinct Kavent S33 dual mono balanced class A blah blah blah preamp into an up... |