lloydc
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| Mid-fi tube vs high-end SS @audiman, "they use torroid type which no Highend company uses" My Rogers EH200Mk2 uses a giant toroid. Can't imagine anyone saying it is not "high end". op, are you planning to use the same speakers and switch amps? physically, or with a... | |
| Time to do house cleaning. The boxes alone take up tremendous amounts of space, and they deteriorate rapidly. Selling takes time and effort, and I won’t list anything that doesn’t work perfectly, so I have donated some good stuff to Goodwill. for some things, like Opera re... | |
| Hum on Tube Amp - Can't find source Could you take an amp to a friend’s house and insert it in their system? That would answer whether it us the amp or something in your house’s power system. MF’s article in Stereophile about the generator he installed would lead me to suspect... | |
| Phono Cartridge Purchase from Asia? I looked at the ad, but the seller is not identified. How do you find his identity to look up feedback? | |
| Has something gone wrong @ Stereophile? Thanks for all the responses. I went ahead and renewed at the mag’s site, and accepted the automatic renewal. Herb, I enjoy your writings more than all the other Stereophile writers combined. I have great respect for your knowledge and opinio... | |
| I've been selling heavier gear for lighter gear + 1, @photon46 Yes, weight matters to me, for the same reason. Getting a heavy amp boxed and to the shipper, then eventually back home, is a pia. Unfortunately, great amps are not lightweight. At least, not yet. | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused In my admittedly limited experience, I haven’t run across any active powered speakers with internal tube amplifiers; it would seem to make little sense to create such things. I don’t think I would enjoy the OP’s system as much as he seems to... | |
| Do speaker cables really make a difference ? @ebm two exclamation points? This loquaciousness is getting out if hand. | |
| Recommend a good tube power amp in the 100 wpc range for under $4k You don’t need or want such complexity. A good c. 100 wpc tube amp will be fine; good tube amps (e.g. Quicksilver, Rogue, Mac) can play bass very well, and the superb ones (e.g., VAC, Rogers, VTL) play bass extremely well . Better to get a subwo... | |
| Dust Settled Consensus- is the Benchmark AHB2 an Audiophile Amplifier? "consensus" and "audiophile" in the same sentence/paragraph always makes me lol | |
| kt88 vs kt150 Thanks for the insights! Guess I’ll have to experiment. | |
| what kind of power conditioner for front end? Perhaps i should have noted that I can not install a 20 amp line, which eliminates many of the most recommendable power conditioners. | |
| Roger Waters and Graham Nash on The Band. @bdp24: Oh, come on. You went to their show. No one could hear the Beatles in concert, thanks to all the screaming girls. It's why they quit playing live. | |
| The science of why we like — and dislike — certain music This is why 12-tone, bebop and modern jazz are failed experiments which have only tiny audiences. | |
| what kind of power conditioner for front end? Thanks for the suggestions! |