decooney
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| Anyone hear or own Musical Technology (Heil AMT's) speakers? Something to keep in mind. The beauty of the sound from the ESS Great Heil AMT is the lower midrange, imo. I worked at ESS Laboratories in the early 1980s, and listened to most of the models in that era, and owned several different units over the ... | |
| Looking for 50-100 watts of Tube Power (give or take) for my JBL 4349s @pdreher sounds like fun. My buddy had a pair of the MC-30s refreshed and ran them for many years. Pretty neat amps. In my larger QS amps, I found the KT150s need the right amount of plate voltage, bias, and transformers to run their best. Goin... | |
| Looking for 50-100 watts of Tube Power (give or take) for my JBL 4349s @pdreher i don’t recall if you mentioned this before, but have you swapped out the stock capacitors for something a few notches up in quality/design in your QS amps? The changes in mine and a few other members (8+) who’ve followed along have also ... | |
| Anyone hear or own Musical Technology (Heil AMT's) speakers? @toddalin fyi, they've been sold out of the full kits with Great Heil AMT and mounting kits for a while. Just for grins emailed them this morning to see when there might be more in stock. I may order a 3rd set of spare diaphragms too just to have... | |
| Anyone hear or own Musical Technology (Heil AMT's) speakers? "@toddalin Best I can tell, my pair came from a pair of AMT1Ds". Yes, that is correct, originally from the "1D" model series. | |
| The Music Room Make no mistake - you are paying for convenience and more instant gratification selling your gear to TMR Audio. This is an option some prefer to selling it yourself over a longer period of time in most cases. They are not going to pay you retail f... | |
| Upgrade Nakamichi PA 7All power amp with mono blocks @thriftyaudio I see so you’ve partly been down the dac merry-go-round. I ended up leveraging a bunch of friends and colleagues to narrow down my lists a bit more. You or others might prefer something different in terms of DACs, I was following alo... | |
| Upgrade Nakamichi PA 7All power amp with mono blocks "Fact is it's a tough combination to beat no matter what your budget is." Reading back over this. Another thought along the same lines of thinking... Yep, levarage the existing amp as-is, keep it for a few more years, at least. Having ... | |
| Stereophile review of the $30,000 tekton speakers I don't mind function-first speakers IF they sound really good for the $. And if the plain-jane's are really that good sounding, it's not a big deal for a furniture grade cabinet maker to replicate enclosures with a rich look. imo, what's worse... | |
| The Psychology of Constant (Equipment) Change I believe we can contain our main systems that we enjoy and keep, while building or acquiring secondary components to try for curiosity reasons, too. No big deal. | |
| Upgrade Nakamichi PA 7All power amp with mono blocks @thriftyaudio given your existing investments so far, I like your plan for yourself on next steps. Since you indicated having just refreshed your PA-7 amp, go for it. Can’t think of a good reason not to try it with either unit you’ve narrowed it d... | |
| Have Luxman 509x. Considering Pass Labs INT-250 or Dan D’Agostino Progression Integrated @denon1 "It costed me a lot of money to ignore burn in significance, system synergy, isolation and room acoustics." 100% agree. I like to look for low-hours gear put back on the market by people prematurely looking to move to other component... | |
| Upgrade Nakamichi PA 7All power amp with mono blocks @decooney thanks for the offer. My unit was refurbished two years ago. Well that’s great, and hopefully you can find a good path for next steps. Admittedly, I was a little hyper-focused on trying different preamps having heard your model amp a... | |
| Upgrade Nakamichi PA 7All power amp with mono blocks @thriftyaudio if interested, I can ask my local contact who worked at Threshold for Pass what his charge is to update your PA-7, or what he did on the last one I saw there recently. Im really enjoying the upgrades on my other Pass Forte amp fwiw.... | |
| For the love of...kits? @jodeven I love this topic. I repair and restore vintage stereo equipment and guitar amps as a small venture side gig. I have been tossing around the idea of modifying my Thiel CS2 2 with an external crossover using upgraded crossover parts. But ... |