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| Looking for high power warming sounding tube amps @smodtactical I run a VTA preamp I’m thrilled with. I’ve heard one of their ST-70 amps. Were I in the market for a big tube amp, the M125 pair would be what I’d go for. The designer, Bob Latino has a very good rep. These are well built and enginee... | |
| Looking for high power warming sounding tube amps Get into a VTA M-125 monoblock pair. 120 watts each. You can enjoy the immense satisfaction of building them as a kit ($2000/pair - no tubes), or just buying them fully assembled and tested ($2800 - no tubes)(tube sets available for $750). | |
| McIntosh to Luxman? Both Mac and Luxman are good gear. I doubt you're going to hear significant differences. Certainly not worth what it will cost you for the Luxman, plus the pain of selling off the Mac. Do you enjoy what you have now? If so, be happy with it.... | |
| Good Suggestions for Tube Amps under 6k With your budget, I'd get the Don Sachs ($3000) custom built version of the VTA SP14 preamp ($1600). They're both the exact same preamp, but the VTA looks like a home-brew kit. It is available as a kit and if you feel you'd enjoy the satisfacti... | |
| Help me upgrade my beginner system! There is NOTHING wrong with the DAC in your Peachtree. It sounds better than you think. Of course, if you're hell-bent upon spending money, then by all means do so, but you'll be throwing it away. I run the early model Peachtree DAC-iT. Your ... | |
| Compact Floor-standing Speaker Recommendations under $4k The SEAS Thor loudspeaker is a DIY kit designed by Joe D'Appolito. What's always your very, VERY best value in a loudspeaker is a properly and professionally engineered design with top-of-the-line components. Typically these projects will sell f... | |
| I feel it is time to upgrade my 1977 system....... As @carlsbad2 said, your Altecs are ungodly efficient. You're probably never pulling more 10 watts and mostly never more than 3 or 4. Those speakers were designed in the days of tube amps and are quite happy with them. I think your best bet f... | |
| Real world Loudspeakers what does very good cost ? @soix @musicaddict The idea that you have to spend $15k to possibly get good sound is the kind of thing I expect people to say who buy their audio the same way they buy their luxury cars. They have a great deal of disposable income and can't pos... | |
| How to pack floor standing speakers for shipping @bigtwin Are you getting a set of the Roger West electrostatic loudspeakers? Nice job of getting the Tritons ready for shipment. The point of my post was to encourage people selling speakers like that, so that it really is possible to pack and s... | |
| un-becoming an audiophile I've been running the same loudspeakers since 2006. The thing which always struck me about the Linkwitz Orion DIY open baffle system is how true and real they are in the mid-range. They especially excel on voices and piano, and that's saying som... | |
| Dark Horse DAC Today's $2000 wonder will be next year's $1200 white elephant. | |
| what are your top "audio bargins" in your system history? I once picked up a used Bryston .5B preamp for $300. Because it was 18 years old, it was still under warranty. So when it developed a problem in the phono section, I shipped it off to Bryston. Just a few weeks later, they fixed it at no char... | |
| What can beat Wilson XVX for less money? Troll. Asking if anything under $100k can beat out some Wilson thingy. Troll | |
| going from tube preamp to solid state There's an enormous difference between various brands of tubes. I have no experience with the 6SN7. My preamp runs the 6CG7, which is the electrical equivalent. But there are big differences between various manufacturers. Try doing some tube r... | |
| Why do we stop listening to new music as we get older? Umm... because most new music lacks things like melodic invention, harmonic movement, dynamic contrast... There are no dynamics when the sound level goes from too loud to too gddamn loud. When was the last time you heard a pop singer sing "I b... |