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| 300b lovers @pindac Our egos are not too bruised. We have a pretty thick skin. No matter what you do, there will be a certain number of people who are unhappy. It cannot be helped. This thread has been a wonderful discussion of amp topologies, with all ... | |
| 300b lovers Hi Ken.. Admittedly biased, but both Lynn and I thought your room and our room were the most musical ones at the show, and we were neighbors too. Obviously others will have other opinions, but many folks told me that our two rooms were in their ... | |
| 300b lovers @gladmo I will take gossamer:) We were trying to produce sound stage in a shoe box room, but the tonality was nice, and we could get depth. As Thom said, and I noted about a thousand pages up, there are many paths to audio nirvana, and rarely... | |
| 300b lovers I second the Songer speakers as well. Wonderful with the Whammerdyn 2A3 amp driving them. One of my favorite rooms! | |
| 300b lovers Also, as Lynn said, the plan is to have Spatial Audio Lab build the preamp and matching 300b amps, which we all are currently calling the Raven pre and Blackbird amps. They may get a final name change before launch, or they may sing together with... | |
| 300b lovers There was a reviewer from Stereophile who came twice. I let him play what he wanted, but I certainly did not chase anyone out of the room, so maybe that was someone else in the rear. I assure you that Stereophile will not be getting the amps for... | |
| 300b lovers Yes, it was fun! As Lynn said, there were 3 or 4 outstanding rooms and we had one of them. It was a scramble taming the room and the internet connection on setup day, well into the late evening. But we got it! I would say the system was very... | |
| 300b lovers The sonic differences between the old Akido circuit and the Raven are fairly dramatic. The Akido circuit sounds like one of the best darn traditional tube preamps I had ever heard, and that is why I built it for years and kept trying to squeeze an... | |
| 300b lovers The older preamp is a nice, but conventional single ended tube SRPP circuit with Akido buffer (extra tube per channel). It uses dual regulated power supplies and dual regulated filament supplies and really good signal path parts, and the wonderfu... | |
| 300b lovers Thanks for the positive feedback from all so far. The room was a bit of a struggle to get things to sound good, but after a whole afternoon and evening of getting furniture moved out and putting acoustic treatment up we pretty much tamed it. We ... | |
| 300b lovers Current production Chinese 45 tubes are about $350 per pair plus shipping. I may try a quad in my Lampi Pacific DAC. I quite like the 46 tube there with adapters. The current production European 45 tubes are twice that price. That said, if ru... | |
| 300b lovers I know that when I have my system "cranked" and I measure the level it is about 81-83 dB. I rarely listen at that level. As was stated above, the hallmark of a good system is that it has enough resolution and balance that it can be enjoyed at lo... | |
| 300b lovers I like to listen at the volume a live performance would be at. Obviously, Pink Floyd concerts would be loud, but a jazz combo should sound like you are in the club at normal levels, not screaming at you. I will try to play at various levels whe... | |
| 300b lovers I have had the matching preamp running quite nicely for about 10 days and I will say the combination doesn't sound like anything I have ever heard. First off, with my 97 dB speakers you literally have to put your ear to the woofer to know the sys... | |
| 300b lovers I just have the first production one running in now in prep for Seattle show. It will be at least $5000 as it is cost and labour intensive and all very high end parts. |