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| Recommend Higher Power SET Amp SET's that actually do over 30 watts are quite rare and I don't know of any that are less expensive than the Cary. The reason is, very few tubes can deliver over 30 watts.You might consider an output transformerless tube amp. OTL's do some things ... | |
| Rogers Soundlab Nevada, any experience ? That should have been "ignorance", not "ingnorance"! Ha! Momma always said I shoulda stayt in skewl. | |
| Rogers Soundlab Nevada, any experience ? Pardon my ingnorance, but what is a "Rogers Soundlab Nevada"? I can't figure out what speakers you are asking about. | |
| Speakers for my Golden tube SE 300B II SE 9w Please help Three lines you might consider are Soliloquy, Coincident, and Reference 3A. These lines have models that should work well with amps like your little 300B SET, and you can find them for sale used right here at Audiogon. | |
| The right amp for Martin Logan Ascents Of the amps you list, I'd go with the Plinius. I own and sell electrostats, and in my experience the Aragon is a rather steely-sounding amp when mated with electrostats - I really don't think that would be a good choice. You want something a touch... | |
| Speaker Advice -- Which to Buy Okay Trip - thanks for taking the time to give us your priories, which are: Timbre, dynamic contrast, good soundstaging over a wide area, natural-sounding deep bass, unobtrusive size and visual appeal, sounds great at medium volumes, forgiving of ... | |
| Speaker Advice -- Which to Buy Well this may not be what you're looking for, but in the long run might get you closer than me just telling you what I like. First off, you will have to make compromises. What we need to know is which virtues cannot be compromised, and which ones ... | |
| New Maggie 3.6 OR 10 yr old Sound lab A-1 s Congrats, Bob! I think you're gonna like your new babies!I have a friend with fifteen year old Sound Labs (I've never actually heard his pair). He has never had a thing done to them - no upgrades, nothing. He's a much more mature human being than ... | |
| What is your opinion regarding electrostatics? Interesting thoughts, Frap. In a rectangular room I generally prefer to place the speakers along a short wall, and to sit well back away from them. To me, this sounds more like what I hear in a concert hall.I think there's a reason for this - you ... | |
| New Maggie 3.6 OR 10 yr old Sound lab A-1 s If the Sound Labs are in excellent condition, they will do some things the Maggies won't do. I've only heard the big Sound Labs with the new toroidal transformer - without it, I'm not certain of how they would compare. But the Sound Labs have alwa... | |
| Are Horn Speakers good or bad or simply a complete joke? Sean -I remember well the Classic Audio speakers (I forget the model; "T" something, I think) driven by Atma-Spheres at the 2001 CES - a very musical combination. Absolutely no hint of honk. Vibrant and richly textured, full-bodied, harmonically c... | |
| What is your opinion regarding electrostatics? Point conceded, Frap - a first-class brace of 12's or 15's will indeed outslam a big panel.I agree with you that very good results seem to come from running the panels full range and then using a low-Q sealed sub to add the ultradeep bass. This pr... | |
| What is your opinion regarding electrostatics? Hi Sean,Great to hear from you again! Hey by the time you and I are done, we'll have all these dynamic guys lining up for either horns or 'stats...You are a true gentleman, and it is a pleasure exchanging ideas with you. Your ideas are worth way m... | |
| Need some wisdom comparing planars Greetings Timwat -So you are a musician and have fallen in love with Maggie 3.6's! I'm not surprised. The Maggies do timbre very well, and don't impose any distracting boxiness on the sound. I'm not a Maggie dealer, but... You asked about the Magg... | |
| What is your opinion regarding electrostatics? Sean, what an incredible post! You did a superb job of laying out the merits of horns and 'stats without becoming "partisan". I'd like to suggest that the dipole radiation pattern of a full range electrostat is actually an asset rather than a limi... |