decooney
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| Need a modern Class A monoblock, preferably half or compact chassis @carlsbad2 I would never be ampless. I have 4 amps sitting here waiting to sell and oe on order. buy something used that you can listen to and resell whenever you feel like it wtih minimal loss. You just made me feel better about having othe... | |
| Benchmark Media Systems. Right or wrong @yyzsantabarbara My Benchmark DAC3B is definitely too hot on the top end. I do not use it on 2-channel but on my RAAL VM-1a tube headphone amp running in Pentode mode I love the DAC3B. I came to a similar conclusion. Had hoped to like it mor... | |
| Looking for 50-100 watts of Tube Power (give or take) for my JBL 4349s @vthokie83 if you don't mind the question, which do you prefer to sit back and just listen to music with for the longest amount of time - the Coda S5.5 or the Transcend tube push pull amp? And, do you run the same preamp with both amps when swappi... | |
| Guess who has new speakers in their lab? Unless someone can listen to them, it really doesn't mean much. Then, if you like them and want them, have to be able afford or willing to blow that kind of money on them. I prefer to follow along with reviewers who try and show stuff average ... | |
| Quicksilver silver 60 amplifiers I have, a few times. Compared them back to back to my own QS Mono 120 amps before I decided. The silver 60s have their own laid back EL34 sound and partly due to the input tube too. Also heard them in comparison to QS Mid Monos which also sound n... | |
| WHY CABLES MATTER! @alaric62 "One uncle insists I should get Bose Cubes and an Acoustimess because "It sounds just as good". He’s never heard my stereo." And another engineer might tell you to scrap it all and get good headphones with a good headphone amp instead... | |
| Cardas Customer Service is Amazing! Founded in 1987, in business for 37 years. Great products and services. Return customers. Simple business formula that works. | |
| My experience with The Music Room @gnaudio 'This was through Audiogon." This could have been part of the problem and gap. Also, as per your post - life brings all kinds of unexpected situations. Terrible things happen. I'm heading to the hospital right now for my father-in-law... | |
| WHY CABLES MATTER! @akg_ca "Each side has absolutely NIL-chance of every convincing the other party to change their beliefs." Man aint that the truth. LOL 🤣. And, what’s even more hilarious and bizarre is how one side argues against something they’ve never act... | |
| Extra sets of Cables to switch up system? Yes, and particularly helpful when testing different components and speakers it can be nice to have a few different sets around to try and compare. Also seeing generalized statements and reports about Cardas here, having tried at least twenty di... | |
| Speakers, speaker cables or I’m getting old… @toddcowles while I'm not saying this is your specific issue, I have a local contact who's complaining about the exact same issue you are now and he also runs those same AA cables you have now, fwtw. Coincidence, i don't know. They did not have ... | |
| 805 SET Monoblocks @immatthewj I had thought about a set of the 211FEs and spoke to a few people I know who own them and most end up who resale them is due to them being room heaters. I had that issues with my last two Cary amps, fwiw. I've been watching the retail ... | |
| Anyone hear or own Musical Technology (Heil AMT's) speakers? Something to keep in mind. The beauty of the sound from the ESS Great Heil AMT is the lower midrange, imo. I worked at ESS Laboratories in the early 1980s, and listened to most of the models in that era, and owned several different units over the ... | |
| Looking for 50-100 watts of Tube Power (give or take) for my JBL 4349s @pdreher sounds like fun. My buddy had a pair of the MC-30s refreshed and ran them for many years. Pretty neat amps. In my larger QS amps, I found the KT150s need the right amount of plate voltage, bias, and transformers to run their best. Goin... | |
| Looking for 50-100 watts of Tube Power (give or take) for my JBL 4349s @pdreher i don’t recall if you mentioned this before, but have you swapped out the stock capacitors for something a few notches up in quality/design in your QS amps? The changes in mine and a few other members (8+) who’ve followed along have also ... |