Raven Blackhawk LE... am I going to be disappointed?

She’s just funnin’ with everyone. Soon she’ll get bored and go back to her room and play with her coveted Barbie doll collection!!

Probably not meant to offend anyone other than the person they are responding to, but the irony is incredible. Long-time members were just pondering a week or two about why there aren't more women participating on this site, yet go on like this, or the thread the other day about whisky and waking up with women in Mexico. Then we'll start over next weekend wondering why this or that person doesn't feel comfortable here.

Haven’t really followed the thread for a few days... looks like it took a turn,


Anyways, still enjoying the Raven. 
I do wish it had more power but thats available, just costs more money.  The sound quality is fantastic and Im having a ball with rolling tubes and learning what sounds like what. I bought this amp used and it came with a bunch of tubes.  All of them are decent if not good.  
Anyways, I am really satisfied with the sound quality.  It really is just awesome.  
@Millercarbon, if the sub out isn’t variable, there is no way to adjust it seperate from the Ravens volume control unless another preamp is used before the raven...

are you trying to tell me that the integrated raven amp needs an additional pre amp in order to be able to adjust the volume of the speakers and sub together?

not having a variable outlut for a subwoofer is pointless and I’ve never come across or heard of such a thing.  Are you telling me that I have to adjust the volume of the sub sverytime time I adjust the volume on the Raven?  Thats stupid.  You still don’t get it...

b_limo,

Thanks for sharing your experience!
Good info for many, as I am considering the move to a tube integrated myself. I hope the sub-out vs. volume control has a reasonable solution.

Does the amp give off much heat?

@b_limo
So you came back over to the dark side, good for you :) A friend in common shared the news about your incoming Raven. I was about to send you a note to say this, just saw your reply and was about to share thoughts like 1) it will sound very nice, and 2) and won’t go super loud or dynamic. Seems you’ve discovered this already. Your 4-6ohm 88db Salks will definitely benefit from more power IF you still like to listen to music loud. If not, may require getting use to listening at lower levels.
Tip: make sure you are in love with the Raven amp before parting with your Salks for other more efficient speakers. Dave at Raven needs to get with the program and build some affordable KT88 60-80w monos for speakers like yours. Enjoy the tube listening again!

That does sound strange if the sub output level is truly fixed and not variable.  Too bad if so in that the built in high pass filter to the mains for use with a sub sounds like a nice feature to use with a sub.