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| Siemens EL 34 @pehare KT Monos w KT170s is what I’ve been running for the last 5 months and I’m loving the match. One thing I can say is that you must experiment w bias level. It seems that the KT150s are more forgiving on bias setting. Surprisingly to me, the... | |
| Siemens EL 34 @pdreher I have a pair of Quicksilver KT Mono's with KT-150's on order... so I'm hoping they will scratch my itch and quell any regrets I may have in selling the RM9 MK2. Thanks for making the correlation and for sharing this update. For one, t... | |
| Siemens EL 34 @jjss49 "...where i did most of my el34 based listening back in the late 80’s, with early big proacs, spendors, quads, maggie mg iii-a’s". While I had to move on to different amps/ouput tubes for my main custom speakers 93db/6ohm, aside from t... | |
| Cable upgrade @tonydec good work giving yourself and your speakers time to settle in since new. Also, taking the time to test out different positions, toe-in vs toe-out too helps of course. I noticed a while back you had been using AQ King Cobra ICs and such. A... | |
| Question about wpc on tube amps @timintexas as you've already concluded, in your case - I'd second the notion of buying a really good tube preamplifier and pairing it up with your Bryston instead. | |
| millercarbon If you click on the "Reviews" tab at the top of this site, the last update shown is 11/16/22. Hope MC is okay - maybe visiting some other forums or something. | |
| Best amp pairing for Focal Kanta 1s @niko79 "But what in hi fi audio is? :D" Perhaps my suggestion was that some lateral moves can be frustrating to spend good money on something with little to no improvement for the sake of "making a change". Perhaps I made a few curious lateral... | |
| Best amp pairing for Focal Kanta 1s @niko79 imo I’d probably stick with the BlueHeaven cables you have now unless you were to jump past the Iridium up to something like the 4-wire Cygnus with Cardas. Even between Parsec and Cygnus, a different result. And between Cygnus and Clear Re... | |
| Siemens EL 34 @jjss49 In the 1980s there were International brand EL34s made by RFT same tube that RFT made for Telefunken, Siemens, and others. Not sure if there is a connection there or not. I recall my buddy who passed had some Telefunkens in his RM-9 MK II... | |
| Describe the "new HiFi sound"? @hoodjem re: "Tube preamps that don’t sound like tubes". Watched a reviewer last week who reported something about a new tube integrated amp that sounded just like a basic solid state amp. Imagine if we had [new] vinyl records coming out wh... | |
| Does a weave of cables really make a difference? @decooney you haven’t opened up every component you own and changed out internal wiring to all be same???? and i thought you were a serious dedicated audiophile.... shame on you! 😂🤣 @jjss49 its funny you bring this up, tonight I met up... | |
| Speaker recommendations wanted for Quicksilver M135 amplifiers @thermionicemission how are those Magnepan LRS speakers coming along paired up with the Quicksilver M135 amps? | |
| triode versus pentode Resurrecting an interesting old thread from '14. Helpful replies for reference, comparing different types, compensating configurations, and sound descriptions. | |
| Does a weave of cables really make a difference? Remember the wiring inside each of your components is not the same from one component to the next in the chain. The theory of a perfect loom is fractured anyhow. Therefore I don't "buy in" that all cables must be the same brand, level. Having i... | |
| Don't sell your tube amps @samureyex "Who knows how long the NOS supply is going to last and who can afford it." That ship sailed a few years ago. All my NOS tubes are in boxes to be sold off. The latest iterations of newer tubes from psvane and a few others are plen... |