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@kota1,

I have asked nicely for you to act like an adult. I don't know what you think that childish post does to improve your standing. I am not hear to play in your personal circus and jump through hoops for you. When you have some ownership position in this website I will reevaluate that. Till then.

The "op" has put out a few tests. Only one was a technical question about speaker design. However, if you would like to argue about imitating tubes. The op has a preamplifier that uses tubes, and an amplifier with an input stage that is tubes. The output of his amplifier is solid state. Its damping factor is about 10-20x what the damping factor would be of a tube amplifier and 20x that of the Sunfire in tube emulation mode. The OPs speakers are very low impedance. The Sunfire in tube mode would make a mess of the frequency response in a system the OP otherwise likes. That, in my books, is a terrible and poorly researched suggestion.  I know my limits and admit them.

The primary issue @donavabdear appears to have is a noisy signal chain (noisy tube pre-amp + high gain amp will cause that). That is what you find out when you listen and research and do not jump to conclusions.  @donavabdear , did you respond about how your subs were connected? That buzz sounded like what a single ended connection would suffer from.

The OP, @donavabdear lost some warmth, but gained detail and lost noise, and eliminated concern with tube life. @donavabdear , the first thing I would explore is a custom equalization curve. That seems well within the range of your Lyngdorf.  I would suggest starting with a 1db boost from about 50Hz up to 350Hz. You can try bumping that 1db level up and down a 1/4db at at a time and play with the end points, but more so on the 350Hz, pushing it up a bit at a time.  I am sure @kota1 can tell you why I picked those frequencies.

I am sure @kota1 can tell you why I picked those frequencies.

Because you couldn't pick a system, a preamp, a speaker, an amp, or even a cable, LOL. 🙄

@thespeakerdude

I am busting your chops a bit but your claims have simply been outlandish, at least to me. I called out some other members in this same thread who immediately backed up their posts. Even @donavabdear was called out in this thread and he threw down (an Oscar even, having coffee with the stars, didn’t see that coming.)

You are still invited to my thread on inexpensive systems, it is truly a treasure trove of info on system matching.

@kota1 ,

You seem to fancy yourself an unofficial moderator. You pull the same childish stunt with everyone. @donavabdear I doubt in any way felt called out, and neither did anyone else. I don’t feel called out by you, I feel you are simply immature and trying to show off. Nothing I have said is even a slight bit outlandish, but given your lack of knowledge and experience, it may seem that way. I gave you some material to study so you could participate in a more advanced discussion. I hope you have brushed up, but how about this, instead of further derailing @donavabdear ’s threads with your antics, you stick to the topic being discussed and only the topic and leave your need to bully me or whatever it is you think you are doing in your head.