xti16
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| Octave Integrated Amps That will most likely depend with which integrated you are using and with what tubes. It will also depend how efficient the speakers are too. Also what is too loud for me is not loud enough for my son. EL34's don't have the power 6550 or KT88's ha... | |
| Transparent or Nordost? I haven't tried the PC yet. It sure is colorful to look at:-) | |
| Transparent or Nordost? No_money - I wish I had a better experience with Transparent but the cables I listened to a few years ago just didn't have any dynamics (great tonality though) and 2 other people I know had the same impression. I do believe the dealer had them set... | |
| Question About NORDOST cables Youngatheart - Yes the series2 is warmer sounding. To my ears when you have more bass and a more liquid sound I consider that warmer. As far as the originals to me they do have more 'air' between the instruments and vocals with a little more detai... | |
| Question About NORDOST cables The new Series2 Nordost Frey's have a lot more bass and are even more liquid sounding than the originals. But those are not discounted. I have the original Frey's for about 2 years now and just love them. The Series2 are even better with about a 1... | |
| Can Anyone Recommend a Good Speaker ? You should give the Dynaudio's a chance. | |
| Transparent or Nordost? No_money If you can demo the Frey2 against the original Tyr's that may be very interesting. I never heard the original Tyr's but have the Tyr2 Sc in my system now with the Frey2 Ic. Pretty huge difference with the Series 2. I'm planning to leave t... | |
| Any Bryston B100 owners? Help please I owned a B100 for 5 years (gone for a year now) and at 12 o'clock it was way too loud for my Dyn C1's 4 ohm (85db). Mine did not have a dac. Watt's can be very deceiving IMO. 2 examples when I owned mine. First the Nain XS @ 60w sounded much stro... | |
| Transparent or Nordost? Ok I have the series2. First let me say I pestered my dealer to get the demo case so these cables have NOT been burned in on the Vidar. I swapped my Frey with the Frey2 speaker cable. Wow very different. Better bass and high end extension but a mu... | |
| Bass tones and low cost tubes for a Jolida 502B Before you swap power tubes on the Jolida you ought to set bias to the LOWEST and turn up accordingly.I agree 100% but would add when I swap tubes I turn the bias to minimum - volume down to minimum and let them warm up for about 20 min. At that p... | |
| Transparent or Nordost? No_money My Nordost dealer sold his Tyr's too fast. They were gone 2 weeks before his demo case arrived. I need 4m speaker cables. When I bought my Frey's I was at the top of my budget and I did quickly demo the Valhalla's just for grins (his Tyr'... | |
| Transparent or Nordost? Just heard from my Nordost dealer and I should get the demo case on Saturday. The only confusion on my part is getting his Valhalls's. He is down to 1 pair of SC's but I'm sure we will work something out (we always do). | |
| Why do NOS Tubes sound better than new tubes? Rodman - Thanks I was starting to worry about the slight under bias. I know tubes won't last as long as transistors and want to get the most life out of my tubes. As I've stated overall I prefer NOS (EAT is the only exception and maybe the Shuguan... | |
| Why do NOS Tubes sound better than new tubes? Rodman - How does under biasing a tube shorten the life? And does a very slight under bias cause problems? It was recommended by Andreas Hoffman from Octave corp to slightly under bias the tubes (biasing is done with leds and not a meter). I'm fai... | |
| Why do NOS Tubes sound better than new tubes? Personally I prefer the NOS tubes. They also seem to last a lot longer. The exception is EAT. The problem I have with EAT KT88's is I bought a quad of used original KT88's that have serial #'s that start with 'D'. 1 is bad after 25 hrs and 2 won't... |