wrm57
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| Bryston 28B-SST2 or Karan Acoustics KA-S 600 ? Never heard the Hegel H30 either but I just read Absolute Sound review. It looks like a great piece! How long does it take to warm up :) | |
| Bryston 28B-SST2 or Karan Acoustics KA-S 600 ? Hi Mribob,Nice to meet a fellow Phi Beta fan. I'm a little surprised at your experience with the 28Bs, as my system does not lack for subtle cues and musical depth. But these things, as you say, are system-dependent and ours are pretty different. ... | |
| Bryston 28B-SST2 or Karan Acoustics KA-S 600 ? Never heard the 7B-SST2 myself. I think the Bryston position is that the sound character is the same, just scaled for greater power with the 28B. However, a friend had them both and thought the 28B sounded quite a bit better, with more ease, depth... | |
| Which high power SET Ait, that's awesome. When I read you first post, I thought 200WPC SET was a typo and you meant 20WPC! That must be quite an amp. Congrats! | |
| Bryston 28B-SST2 or Karan Acoustics KA-S 600 ? I run 28B-SST2 with a VAC Phi Beta preamp. There is nothing forward about the sound unless it comes from the source. I believe that tag comes from folks who've heard earlier models, or lesser ones, or who haven't heard these specific amps in a sys... | |
| Which high power SET Hi Edoit, You're getting a lot of great advice here from some smart audiophiles. The common threads appear to be: 1) don't become overly enchanted by the idea of any single topology; 2) your speakers are ill-suited for SETs. SETs can sound great; ... | |
| Any Allnic H1201 owners out there? I can only speak to about the bigger brothers of the Allnic and Manley but I think one could reasonably extrapolate: I owned Steelhead RC for several years and liked it; then I auditioned an Allnic H3000 in my system and thought it in a completely... | |
| $8000 budget on Pre-amp The top VAC preamps can be had for around $8K used, without the built-in phono stage. I love my Phi Beta. I also think the Music First passive drubin mentions is phenomenal--liquid, detailed, dynamic, harmonically full--really does it all. A compa... | |
| 6922 Issues / Recommendations OK, thanks, I'll poke around. | |
| 6922 Issues / Recommendations Hi Ptmconsulting,Any suggestions on where to get tubes cryo-ed? I have 50 of those Rockets, more than enough for a few experiments.Thanks. | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers Yes, fascinating thread, even for a non-techie like me. If I may ask a corollary question: is there a relatively simple rule of thumb to determine whether a speaker might prefer a Power Paradigm or Voltage Paradigm amp? | |
| Graham Phantom to Supreme I upgraded mine and was pleased. The cost was $800 at the time, though I think it's gone up since. Turnaround time is up in the air. Mine took a few months but I've heard of much longer waits. The most obvious improvement was in depth and quality ... | |
| TriPlanar Tips I've always assumed that you have to remove the weight to achieve zero AS. That's what I do when aligning cartridges, for example. Unlike a number of users here, I do like a little anti-skate on my arm. But I found the minimum to be a bit much in ... | |
| Afraid to buy new speakers In a second system, I have Merlin TSM-MME monitors placed 4 inches off the front wall (on their side in a wall unit, no less), combined with a modest 10-in. sealed cab subwoofer (Von Schweikert), EQ-ed in at 50 Hz. Powered by a Manley Stingray II ... | |
| Rogue Apollo v. VAC Phi 300.1a Hey Mike,I think we have similar ears. I rolled out the stock tubes in my VAC phono section, too, and '50s RCA blackplates are my favorite NOS in there. It's a sleeper tube, IMO. Hard to find super-quiet ones, though. Surprisingly, among new produ... |