zaikesman
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| Tubes Do It -- Transistors Don't. Based on what I have heard, I find your generalizations to be very accurate as far as they go. I, however, have also not heard the best new SS amps very much at all. From what I have heard, though, I would add that very good SS can give qualities ... | |
| Monitor speakers pros/cons Since your settings and set-up with the subs are likely to be ideally optimized differently for music and HT, you may not want to depend on them for your music reproduction if they're primarily used for HT. The best way around this is to go fuller... | |
| 4 ohm speakers with tube amps? I have used tubed amps on 4-ohm speakers for some time now, so it can be done with satisfactory results. Can't speak for your combination directly, though. | |
| New TT for around 2000--- need some advice Don't bother going to Deja Vu unless the owner Mr. Vu is in the shop at the time. I've had useless, time-wasting experiences there when he is out, leaving inexperienced kids to run the joint in his absence.Whatever you get, don't throw a lot of mo... | |
| Opinions on this "white paper" I bought Roger Sanders' InnerSound preamp, and talked with him several times by phone, as well as having read the white paper. He is definitely a "green eye-shade and slide-rule" kind of a guy. Not one to go anywhere near the deep end of the audio... | |
| Cable Comparison-Stage 1 Placebo effect. AKA the audiophile's best friend. What could we talk about around here without it?! Hey, don't knock it - perception is reality! | |
| Death of Vinyl? Nah As someone who owns vinyl in quantities about 30-to-1 over his CDs, I will just play devil's advocate for a moment, and point out that I have never experienced a CD becoming "uplayable" due to "oxidation", and that despite what the article says, s... | |
| Do I need more power? Mr. Harris - Glancing at the Rogue Audio website, it says that your Tempest is equipped with preamp outputs that will allow it to function as a preamplifier when used with a separate power amplifier. It also says that an optional feature (which I ... | |
| VTL Transformer Up-Grades, Worth It? Marakanetz - I think what you are referring to is the current range of VTL models that are made with this transformer (the Signatures and the References). They do, as far as I know, offer this transformer upgrade to be retrofitted at the factory f... | |
| VTL Transformer Up-Grades, Worth It? I own MB-185 Signatures, which already come with the upgraded transformers. While I haven't heard the older versions without the Signature tranny, I have heard their current stereo amp offerings, which also lack this feature, and have found them t... | |
| VTL Service ?? I've gotten my MB-185's running with new tubes and higher-rated B+ fuses (now standard on the amp), and have experience no further operational problems. Luke finally talked to me by phone, after deciding that my emails were too long! He was still ... | |
| Experiences, good and bad, with VTL Well, since this thread has popped up again, I should take the opportunity to update my above post. I finally talked at length with Luke Manley, and although he was cordial, he was not, let's say, the most forthcoming individual in his position I ... | |
| Do I need more power? To address Maxgain's question about tube amp output at lower impedances: If, as Natalie and I have suggested, the tube amp's output transformer's output impedance is well-matched to the speaker load, a good tube amp should be able to output an equ... | |
| Do I need more power? You wrote: "...(it) starts to break up a bit if I turn the volume way up." With a smallish speaker and a low-medium powered tube integrated amplifier, this is what is to be expected. You say the set-up has "great sound", which is most of what we a... | |
| Cable Comparison-Stage 1 Thanks you guys for undertaking to perform and report your work here. My main take on this sort of thing:It is, in reality, perfectly true what Twl suggests - that certain cables will do a better job with certain disks, because all recordings have... |