jdl57
Responses from jdl57
| Desire to try tubes If you still use the Heresies, and they are still 96db sensitive after your mods, and you want the “tube” sound, you need single ended triode amps. Buy used, or buy a kit, to save money (Bottlehead may be a good place for a kit) but nothing touche... | |
| Tweaks you got rid of because they were not effective (enough)? Almost all tweaks have been abandoned. What has worked for me: Funk Firm turntable mat. OCC single crystal cable, van den Hul carbon is just as good, also no crystal structure. I have had a very positive result from a better than cheap power cord ... | |
| Are these Speakers the BEST on Planet Earth ?... I listened to Kii speakers at the last RMAF. I didn't like them at all. | |
| NUPRIME EVOLUTION ONE-BEST CLASS D AMP ON THE MARKET "conventional ABamps since its prehistoric technology going back 50 tears" sicSo, my single ended triode Class A amps, using tubes introduced in 1929 suck because they are prehistoric? Class D was invented in 1955. It has taken this long to make t... | |
| Considering simplifying my system... talk me down (or whatever) Unless you plan on moving it, what could be simpler than doing nothing? | |
| Cables of the past - which still rock? Take a look at the prices and availability of used cables on Audiogon. Why would you buy new? | |
| RMAF 2019! Sanders Sound Systems by far the best sound. The only speaker I wanted to take home. The least impressive looking room.Focal Scala Utopia my next favorite speaker.The Sigma Acoustics/AGD room was where I spent the most time. Sounded mostly beautif... | |
| Your favorite Electrostatic, Panel spkr Actually, I was reading a post a while ago on DIYaudio.com. It was about the power switch on the ML-2. John Curl answered it and stated that he was not involved in the final layout of the ML-2, he had worked on the project however. Tom Colangelo i... | |
| What is the best solid state amplifier you have ever heard? Mark Levinson ML-2 | |
| Your favorite Electrostatic, Panel spkr I'm glad to see Sound Lab mentioned so many times. I have owned the same pair of Sound Lab speakers, model A-2, for 35 years. They are the smallest pure electrostatic Sound Labs ever made. They are a two way. Even though I have lusted after the la... | |
| SET amplifier recommendation @atmasphere Just out curiosity, I plugged the ACA into my 89db efficient Sound Lab electrostatics (the 805 is 88db), and my Vision Acoustics Soloist (air suspension 88db), and yes it will drive the B&Ws, and probably quite well. | |
| SET amplifier recommendation I have an idea that might work, emphasis on the word might. This amp right here: https://diyaudiostore.com/collections/amp-camp-amp/products/amp-camp-amp-kit?variant=7072933085218 is an easy to build single ended transistor kit. It sells for $327,... | |
| What was your first big eye opener with regard to audio? My life changing moments:1.) Infinity WTLC (after the Servo Static and before the EMITs, used a Walsh tweeter) , Phase linear electronics. The system that started it all, it demonstrated to me that stereos could make a 3D soundstage. Soundstage ha... | |
| What are the advantages to a Class A amp & what are the trade offs? I listen to nothing but Class A amps now. I have three single ended troide amps using the 45 tube for 2 watts per channel powering a home made set of speakers using a 15" Altec woofer, a two cell Altec compression horn and a RAAL ribbon tweeter. T... | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? @atmasphere I just noticed your reply. I have the old style EI transformers and the back plates were sent to Sound Lab in the last few months where they were checked out by Dr. West himself. I had the panels rebuilt back in the '90s with what was ... |