Zu Omen or Tekton Lore


Best floorstanders under $999 for low power SET amp?

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mstark
Rayray8: Your patience will be rewarded. Eric is pretty busy these days. Mine took 3.5 weeks to complete and shipped. I've been digging through my old CD's every night now and rediscovered a whole new listening experience with the Lore.
I appreciate all that Goraman has written here, but Genjamon also makes valid points. When I make a tube change in the Primaluna Dialogue1, say from the stock Primaluna tubes (EL 34 and driver tubes) to Amperex 12AU7 Bugle Boys and 5751 Sylvania Gold Grey Plate 3m along with NOS 6n3ce Output tubes there is an enormous change for the better in every parameter. It is significant and undeniable. Does it change the inherent characteristics of the Lore or 4.5s? No! But the sound from them is much, much better, the tube changes helped the amp to sound better and consequently bring out the best inherent qualities in the Lore and 4.5s in my room to "my ears."
I ordered mine in early March of last year, and didn't receive them until the first week of April. Granted, I had a special veneer that took some extra time. Eric was pretty up-front about being patient, but it did take a little more time than he originally quoted. I wouldn't be worried, but sympathize with your anxiousness to have them.
thanks for the reassurance! just a little frustrated to be told one thing before i placed the order and then it changes after the order is placed.
Tubes do make a noticeable difference,and even the difference between UL and triode can be very different and we could go into an amp being anolitical or even very warm.
And once more I was painting with to broad a brush to make a finer point.So thanks for calling me on it.

My point was simply this,to meany times I have seen people attack a major problem by making changes to everything but the problem.
for example.

1.A guy gets a very forward and bright pair of horn speakers and changes interconnects,speaker cables and then moves all the furniture in his house then covers the place with room treatments, then finality after a year of changing everything else decides the problem is actually the speakers.
Always start with the most likely link in the chain for example if you never had the problem before,what was the last thing you added or changed?
Sound simple? for some it is not,they want the new componate to work so badly they will exhaust every possible avenue.
When all else fails, reason comes on like a bad hang over and they admit they chose crap.And all the cables and clip on devices won't change that!
I'm not saying amps, tubes ect.. won't make a difference,it just seems so meany people are lead to spending money on very expensive interconnects and other magic beans instead of careful shopping and common sense. And there are so meany snake oil selling crooks,that mislead and down right burn people out of a lot of money for worthless crap in a shinny wrapper.
"There's a sucker born every minute,you just happened along"
Tom Waits quoting P.T.Barnum

That statement is alive and well in audio today,so forgive me if I tend to become a little vocal from time to time but I hate seeing people given bad advice,even if it is the popular opinion of the day.
And trust me when I say,I have seen manufacturers of cables and other stuff mislead people who are still novice and trying to learn or worse people who should know better but desperate to solve a major problem cheaply.