zaikesman
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| Which SS amp does sound the most warm of all? Tube amp sound is not always 'warm'...I like a good tubed amp because they tend to sound 'alive' and 'open', while SS usually sounds 'canned' and 'dead' to me in comparison. The music can just vibrantly burst forth from tubes, while transistors of... | |
| Review: Michael Wolff power cords Carbon Gain Power cord Mattend, I do not have a fraction of the powercord experience you do, but I am curious: Although based on my own testing I do agree that powercord changes can seem to cause shifts in tonal balance and soundstaging, among other areas, your statemen... | |
| VTL Tetrode/Triode I was kidding about the switches being reversed - that's pretty unlikely with two monoblocks, and besides you can't mistake which mode has less power. Last night I did my first listening tests between the two modes with the KT-88's installed. I'm ... | |
| Thiel 2.4 VS 3.6 Thiel may or may not have 'left alone' the 3.6 for so long because they 'got it right' in the beginning. Personally, I suspect it is mostly because they were too busy addressing (successfully) the evolving demands of the HT segment and bringing ou... | |
| help thiel 2.4 placement??? Ozfly: I take that what you are talking about is in replacement for the included spikes Thiel supplies with their floorstanding speakers? | |
| VTL Tetrode/Triode What are your speakers/cables? To reiterate, I'm listening through Thiel 2.2's and either Satori or Au24 cable (though these impressions were formed only with the Satori, as I'm still evaluating the newer-to-me Audience cables).Anyway, I'm not sur... | |
| VTL Tetrode/Triode This also reminds me that we audiophiles are using a particular definition when it comes to the word "natural" - one where we are mostly talking about matters of texture and tonal and harmonic balances, and here the word applies best to triode. If... | |
| Do tube dampers really work? Marakanetz: I don't agree that subjectively dubbing a tube component "well-designed" has much to do with whether or not you'll find any symptoms arising from resonance problems which are inherent within the tubes, not the amps. Some evidence of th... | |
| VTL Tetrode/Triode I think I need to slightly amend a couple of the (mis)impressions I seem to have left from above.Hgabert refers to agreeing with me that "with tetrode...the frequency spectrum is flatter". Yes, tetrode could be called 'flatter' in that it sounds m... | |
| Do tube dampers really work? I just fitted the input 12AT7's on my VTL mono's with Herbie's Hal-O dampers. At first I was skeptical, because in a preliminary 'unplugged' test where I just tapped the tubes when pinched lightly at the pins and tip between my thumb and forefinge... | |
| Digital as good or better than YOUR analog? Vvrinc: I think "Yeehaa!" was Howie ('I just latered my candidacy') Dean, not Shrub... :-) | |
| Review: Classe Audio 70 Amplifier Fascinating. Maybe I should've held onto mine and sold it for the big bux after everybody reads this thread... :-)As I alluded to above, it had been a long time since I'd had a solid-state amp in here, and I was curious what might be done today in... | |
| VTL Tetrode/Triode Interesting result on the outlets - are they separate dedicated lines too? I guess your 450's in tetrode were pulling too much from the wall to share nicely. My 185's probably don't - I have them plugged into the same Power Wedge Ultra PLC I use f... | |
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| Digital as good or better than YOUR analog? Hey - How do you get the accent marks and squiggly thing over the "n"?...I don't think my keyboard has that! |