xti16
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| Christmas Music and Audiophiles? I'm surprised no one has mentioned Chip Davis with any of the Mannheim Steamroller collection. | |
| Tube AMP or SS "Watts are watts, and they are calculated the same way", is absolutely true. It is also true that efficient speakers require fewer watts. While these are electronic facts, "watts are watts" is not an "audio fact". For reasons unknown to me, that a... | |
| Sometimes my system sounds great, sometimes awful In addition to the incoming power do you have a dedicated circuit for your system? Not sure if that would help but when I added 2 for my system the noise floor dropped significantly. That being said my incoming voltage varies from 119V to 127V and... | |
| Slight Tube 'Whistle' - Help? First have you tried swapping the tubes to see if the sound moves to the other channel? Have you tried just re-seating the tubes? Since the problem occurred after 300 hrs I personally would care. I can't see how a pre-amp would be hard on tubes. T... | |
| How do you test different tubes? Isn't it great how you can continually upgrade the same piece of quality tube gear simply by changing tubes. My guess, however, is by now I'm preaching to the choir!+1 Although some new (EAT) and NOS (WE 300b) can be as expensive or more than some... | |
| What to replace Nordost speaker cable? As far as power (at least with my 85db dyns) they need current. My Octave is 70w @4ohm where my Bryston was 180w @4ohm. The Octave has a world more control than the Bryston. For Solid State the Naim XS @60W is also much better than the Bryston. Wa... | |
| What to replace Nordost speaker cable? Gherreral - I had a Bryston B100sst and thought it was quite good. It wasn't until my local dealer brought to my home an Octave V70SE for me to demo. Even before the tubes warmed up the Octave just destroyed the Bryston in every way. Since then I ... | |
| What to replace Nordost speaker cable? Gherreal - According to Nordost 4m (or multiples) lengths are the most ideal. Not sure if that is for their profit but when in the Norse series and up the meters are actually longer. I just happen to need 4m myself.Since my original post I did tra... | |
| What to replace Nordost speaker cable? What will be interesting is after you have a couple of hundred hrs on the heimdalls to put the red dawns back in and then give us your impression. | |
| Amp to drive Dynaudio C-1 I am currently driving my C1 signatures with an Octave V70SE. The only time it runs out of steam is when I run it with the EL34's. No problem with 6550's KT88's or KT90's. Dyn's sound best with high current amps. Unfortunately most manufacturers d... | |
| Integrated Amplifiers with neutral sound I had a Bryston B100sst for 4 years and while I did enjoy it the Bryston has a ground loop problem (slight hum from speakers when source was selected and nothing playing). The Simaudio is very good if you like detail. To me that detail made me lis... | |
| Simultaneous XLR & RCA outputs = bad? I had the same problem when I was demoing rca vs xlr from my cd player to my integrated. For me only the xlr sounded horrible when both cables were connected. My guess is that the circuitry from the xlr was delaying the signal (compared to the rca... | |
| 2x ECC82 on Jadis JA 30 amplifier My Octave V70se has ECC81 (12at7) as standard driver tubes. The manual states I can use either ECC81's or ECC82's. The ECC82 (12au7) has less gain than the ECC81's. So for grins I popped in a pair of ECC82's and I have more volume to play with. Th... | |
| 2x ECC82 on Jadis JA 30 amplifier As I understand it the ECC83 has a higher gain than the ECC82. So it really shouldn't be a problem. It may sound a little more forward with the ECC83's though. Best to contact Jadis - if anyone would know it should be them ;) | |
| Vampire Wire circa 1983 I remember that cable. My brother in law has them. In fact he just upgraded to Kimber 8tc which he likes a lot better. It was less money than the 'Monster' cable and didn't corrode like the Monster cable did back in those days. It was a huge step ... |