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Line Magnetic 508ia and the Elusive 805 Tube
China Hifi is Black Market stuff no one knows where the stock really comes from.  
Please Recommend Highly Efficient Floor Standing Non-Horn Speaker Suggestions
Cube Audio  
Help with choosing sub-woofers please
2 is better then 1, 4 is better than 2 6 is better than 4 8 is better than 6   :-)  good luck  
Help with choosing sub-woofers please
Quested Subwoofers from the UK, Studio Accuracy at its best and easy to intergrate using a analog crossover control or DSP if you into DSP.  
Atma-Sphere Class D getting some love
I hope these are the giant killers becus some Class D Amps are selling for silly pricing by other manufactures.  
No more "High End" for me...Back to Reality Audio
 Its more about the experience, but this audiophile market pricing is going crazy now have to agree on this. Its putting allot of people off. some people are giving up and sticking to intergrated lower end systems.  
Hana Umami Red or Lyra Kleos?
I prefer the Hana Umami slightly warmer tone its more foriving on most crappy recordings but excellent on the best of the best recording too. Depends from systems to system but the hana is more musical overal to my ears.  
Linlai E 6sn7 tubes
Iv ordered The Lin-Lais and the Globes too. Waiting to try them out.  
Any experience with TAD speakers ?
I have the Classic Audio Loudspeakers T1.5 Field Coils 16 Ohms and the T3.4 Field Coils also at 16ohms. All the Drivers use TAD, John Wolff modifies the TAD Drivers and converts them to Field Coils this takes allot of work and money to do. Howeve... 
What made you change to a 6SN7 preamp?
The MP-1 from Atma-Sphere uses 6 X 6SN7 Tubes.  
CLASS D MONO AMPS buy ATMASPHERE MUSIC SYSTEMS
Anyway 300b & 2a3 cant power up anything much except very sensitive speakers with a relatively easy load to drive. Your limited on the speakers you can buy, Class D on the other hand can juice up even hard to drive loads with out issues or a c... 
CLASS D MONO AMPS buy ATMASPHERE MUSIC SYSTEMS
Class D and Tubes amps all tend to sound diffrent. Iv heard some terrible 300B and 2A3 Amps and some good ones, Iv heard some horrible Class D Amps and some decent ones too. Not Heard the Atma-Sphere Class D Amps thou. Cant Comment on that. But Co... 
CLASS D MONO AMPS buy ATMASPHERE MUSIC SYSTEMS
I have both the T1.5 Field coils and the T3.4 Field Coils  
The Best Preamp is no Preamp?
I doubt it very much, My MP-1 Pre-amp is a permernent keeper!  :-)  
CLASS D MONO AMPS buy ATMASPHERE MUSIC SYSTEMS
I run Atma-Sphere Nirvana OTL Amplifiers, on the Classic Audio Loudspeakers i posted the pictures over whatsthebestforum. The nirvana at times Powers up the 16ohms T1.5 or at other times the Line Magnetic LM3 which is also 16 ohms Field Coils.  ...