Tubes?

Ralph at what cost was a reference to trading one sonic virtue for another. I am elated you have found a truely pistonic set of drivers from 20-33k. Another lap around the Mulberry....at least it is with somebody i deeply respect

perhaps it’s definitional, but i think of breakup as signal going one way, cone or parts of cone going the other way...$600 bucks and a run across the German laser scanner is a truth machine...

best

Jim

I am elated you have found a truely pistonic set of drivers from 20-33k. Another lap around the Mulberry....at least it is with somebody i deeply respect

perhaps it’s definitional, but i think of breakup as signal going one way, cone or parts of cone going the other way...$600 bucks and a run across the German laser scanner is a truth machine...

@tomic601

We’re on the same page with this... and I knew what you were saying when you asked ’at what cost’ but since the speaker I referred to does not seem to have a downside other than size, it actually came down to its actual cost, so my comment was a bit of a double-entendre :)

its numbers then SS. If its music then tubes. It really is that simple.

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well Richard Gray just insalled my new Millennium tweets and new silver wires from navships,,
He suggests the Thrors at 87db are not ideal match for the Jadis Defy7,,
He highly recommends i either swap speakers ot swap amp to ss amplification.
Told him can'yt part with either..
I think what richard is getting at is, the Thros Excel drivers really prefer ss amplification to work their best...
So I may get more dynamics in  the upper midrange frenquencies , but lose some of the tubes musical magic,, always a trade off somewhere.
ss amplification will never ever work for me. 
btw Richard is refering to hi fi solid state,, HA,, ya gonna pay for that. 
Seas, Scan speak offers high sen speakers, but i am a  fan of the Excel line.

As was mentioned several times earlier get a tube preamp with octal tubes like the 6sn7, also a tube rectifier. I put a tube preamp in front of my krell amp and it sounds great, it sounded horrible with the solid state preamps
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My guess is most high power ss fans , go with this ideal tube pre amp.
However a  great tube pre ain't cheap.  = has to be clean, no coloring,,I just sold off a  LS9 chinese Jadis clone 12AT7 3 stage,, clean, pure sonics, , no added color to circuit,,,, with Mundorf caps , $750. = steal, but its goneeee

 I'm more of a mid range and low end guy myself

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I am about to make a  topic on just this subject, ss amps voicing the 3 main frequency ranges vs tubes performance in the 3 frequenct phases.
Should get alot of discussion going on.
I'm busy putting final touches on my upgrades in my entire system,, let me complete, and then I'll start a discussion.
Just saying mids are like 90% of the music we listen to.
I never make a  final judgement on  a  speaker/amp performance  by highs/lows, 
'Always mid frequencies is my concern.