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| Can a Amp be "timeless" and compete with todays amps? @larryi Great post. I wish you could hear my Ampsandsound Nautilus which is a modern recreation of the HK Citation II. It puts out 8 watts of SE triode. The amp is overbuilt to the extreme. It is perhaps half the size of my ARC Ref 80S and yet w... | |
| Can a Amp be "timeless" and compete with todays amps? What this means is its possible to build a solid state amp that is every bit as smooth in the mids and highs as the best tube amps and leave nothing on the table in terms of detail, sound stage and the like, in such a way that vintage amps simply... | |
| Can a Amp be "timeless" and compete with todays amps? OK Ralph, so you are ditching everything you have espoused (if not self-promoted) on this forum for twenty years in order to go all-in to self-promote your new Class D amps. Fine. Let history be the judge! Over 60 years time has proven that the ba... | |
| Can a Amp be "timeless" and compete with todays amps? @teo_audio As a lawyer I mediate a lot. It sometimes results in settlement of the pending litigation. The word you are looking for in your spiritual search is "meditation". Also, that is one weird and non-specific post you got there! | |
| Can a Amp be "timeless" and compete with todays amps? As another data point, my Ampsandsound Nautilus is modeled after the Harman Kardon Citation 2 which was introduced in 1959. Granted it is not my main speaker amplifier (I bought it to use as a headphone amp) but when driving my Devore O/93's the ... | |
| Speakers: Anything really new under the sun? You can apply extraordinary measures to eliminate cabinet resonance and the result is a speaker like those made by Magico. Is this good? It depends on whether you like their speakers. There is no defined engineering path to a great sounding speak... | |
| Tubes becoming hard to get? @fsonicsmith - are you really saying any tube amp is better than any solid state amp? Any direct drive is better than any belt drive TT? Just trying to show you how you logic is flawed. I don’t want to be rude but are you on some serious meds? ... | |
| Audio Research REF 80S Reviews/Comparisons @charles1dad Thank you. As to writing, right back at you. I promise further listening impressions. | |
| Tubes becoming hard to get? @sokogear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NYFq7ZJg4c As to the rest of what you have to say, I appreciate your serious attempt at expressing your thoughts rather than counter-attacking and for that I thank you. But that said, you evidently have... | |
| Tubes becoming hard to get? Simple - solid state is the way to go. No hassle, heat, turning on and off, worrying about tubes replacement, lots of power, etc.....You can get just as good SQ - it's not a technology issue, it is a design issue. If the SS design is good, it wil... | |
| Audio Research REF 80S Reviews/Comparisons Well, my new amp is set up and has about five hours of break-in so far. I am sure no one wants to read about such mundane things as shipping woes but I feel compelled anyway to talk about the condition of the outer ARC shipping box. UPS managed to... | |
| Tubes becoming hard to get? There are 3 major tube suppliers, one in russia (electro harmonix- now closed), I believe this to be wrong. The Shuguang factory in China closed. The New Sensor factory in Russia has not closed. The New Sensor factory instead has no good way t... | |
| Contemplating DEVORE SPEAKERS (and others)....LONG audition report of many speakers Hi Prof-as I have mentioned here and there previously, you are in my opinion one of the best contributors to this Board so I am glad it has been four years! It is nice to see that John has updated his site as to all of his products. As to the fi... | |
| Audio Research REF 80S Reviews/Comparisons @bifwynne -No there is no epilogue. ARC told me that there are no authorized techs in my area though for some reason they thought I live in Florida. Just the same, I know that there are no authorized techs in Ohio. I am still in a holding pattern ... | |
| Audio Research REF 80S Reviews/Comparisons @bifwynne Greg looked at the pics and said "that is strange". But when I read your first reference to the slow start circuit fuse I thought "yeah, that's what I think happened to mine". I expect anything that goes wrong other than a power tube re... |