wolf_garcia
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| 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... | |
| KT120 transformer failures There's just nothing wrong with robust filament winding. I'm all for it. | |
| Magico Q7 . . . wow If I sell everything and get Q7s, it would be just me in a cardboard box under the freeway with my Q7s. Also, regarding the speaker sensitivity issue, there has to be somebody out there who plans to drive Q7s with a hyper expensive "custom made by... | |
| KT120 transformer failures Luckily there seem to be NO transformer issues with the 502P. Not yet anyway, and I assume if it was gonna die it would show some signs of impending failure. My trusty warranty is there just in case. The CJ "SE" is on a price level that begs compa... | |
| KT120 transformer failures Pretty much every KT120 sales spec/note/description including the "official" one from New Sensor has that "tube heater current filament supply or" warning. I stand warned. Audio Research along with a bunch of other amp builders have modified their... | |
| KT120 transformer failures I guess the answer is no. | |
| Jolida 502 KT120 tube swapping Other than the "upgrades" they did on the amp before shipping there are no mods...I just dropped the 120s in and I bias them to the 502P specs and check it with my trusty Radio Shack meter just for the hell of it (a compulsion, but I'm getting bet... | |
| High quality subwoofer - which one? I have also had success with a single REL (older Q150e). It really loads my room up nicely and has lots of adjustment/tuning options. At this point I would never NOT have one. | |
| Help with new system Get a factory (MD) modded Jolida...inexpensive and sound amazing. | |
| Magico Q7 . . . wow So it looks like the Q7 will be perfect in my medium size listening room driven by my 60 watt Jolida tube amp. What a relief... | |
| Jolida 502 KT120 tube swapping SO...I put the KT120s in the 502P..and they work swimmingly. It is a LARGE tube in every way. Just more of everything...power (hard to say how much, but it's there), better, sweeter treble...more overall tonal range across the board. They do run h... |