proberts887
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| Review: Air Tight ATM-3 Tube amp What Davehg said... Dunlavy IVas spec a minimum power requirement of 50 watts. IMO, the ATM-3's 55 watt output in triode mode is simply insufficient to drive the Dunlavys for critical analysis. I should know, I have a pair of ATM-3s and used them ... | |
| Thiel 7.2: amps suggestions please How many hours do you have on the 7.2's? The break-in period can be relatively long and the speakers will sound just as you've described if not broken in. If break-in is not the issue, an alternative to the big amps previously suggested is the "po... | |
| Electrocompaniet EMC1 CDP owner's suggestions jm88439 - are you using solid state or tube amplification? Is your preamp tubed? I lost much of the bloom experienced with my EMC1 when I swapped out my tube amp (Air Tight ATM2) with a Bryston 14B-SST. Don't get me wrong, the solid state amp and ... | |
| Electrocompaniet EMC1 CDP owner's suggestions Tvad,Jm88439 - thanks for stepping up to the plate on this one. Agree, there's not much "under the hood" in the EMC1, particularly in terms of high end passive components. I did see a couple of Kimbercaps on the Analog power supply board. Everythi... | |
| Electrocompaniet EMC1 CDP owner's suggestions I'll be the contrarian here. I own one of the first EMC1s off the line and it is upgraded to the current UP configuration (Thanks Ernie!). I believe Mike from Father and Son's addressed this phenomenon in a previous post quite well. The main diffe... | |
| Upgrade advice please Lvsjedi - Toonsurge is suggesting you consider keeping your 3802 and adding a higher power two channel amp to drive your Cornwalls in favor of the Outlaw combo. I cannot comment on which would sound better in your room, but this is an excellent al... | |
| What to power Thiel 2.4 speakers? I'll be the contrarian here. I drove the 2.3s with a 120 watt Electrocompaniet solid state amp and traded up a month later to an 80 watt Air Tight ATM2 tube amp. Both sounded very good, but different. I preferred the ATM2 hands down -lived with it... | |
| tubes with thiel, meadowlark or revel I don't have experience with VTL, but did run Thiel 2.3's for three years with an Air Tight ATM2 (80 watts/ch) in a pretty large room (5000 c.f.). The amp never ran out of steam and the overall sound was very, very good. On the contrary, I agree w... | |
| Looking for a 50" HD TV Geeze Willobandb...I just spent thirty minutes lurking on the A/V forum. Some guy posted..."CRTs aren't capable of displaying the 1440 lines for a 720P* source..." What??? I lost count of the number of posts where people don't know the difference ... | |
| Looking for a 50" HD TV IMHO, the SONY 50" LCD has a better scaler than the Samsung when viewing standard definition programming. The putting greens had a "posterized" look while watching golf on a friend's brand new 50" Samsung DLP. I saw the same artifact on the demo s... | |
| Sony 9000es vs. NS999ES Nothing really new to add here - agree the 9000ES is better built than the 999, but lacks mulit-channel SACD playback (who cares?). Disagree with Jwong1 that CD playback is "outstanding". To the contrary, in my two plus years of owning this player... | |
| Personal amp evolution Yamaha receiverHafler XL280added another XL280 - went mono blockElectrocompaniet IC-2 (50 watt integrated)Electrocompaniet AW120DMBAir Tight ATM2 - AWESOME!!! (still have it boxed up)Bryston 14B-SST (cause the ATM-2 can't drive my Thiel CS6s) | |
| verdict on thiel 2.4? I just heard the 2.4's right out of the box last night at my local dealer - WOW! They were being driven by a Cary integrated with 30 watts in triode mode! The room is 24X20 and the speakers sounded very smooth with great soundstage and imaging. I ... | |
| Thiel 2.4 and 7.2 versus 5i I can't wait to hear the 2.4's! I bought one of the first pair of 2.3s off the line and was very happy with them for four years teamed with an Air Tight ATM2 80 wpc tube amp and Air tight ATC3 pre. I had to muck it all up last year by thinking big... |