stewie
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| Why manufactures don´t burn in their amps and ... This I believe: components don't burn in; listeners burn in. "Burn in" is a metaphorical cousin of "break-in": baseball gloves require breaking in; conert grands--specifically, the action-- require breaking in. The wood in string instruments chang... | |
| Will Vincent "Dynaco" Amps I've got a pair of Will's Dynaco mk iiis; beautiful aesthetics and sonics. Just one word on the looks: WAF was off the scale (glowing tubes!), and everyone who comes in the living room makes a beeline for them. | |
| Biamping, bass and amplifier type. Here's something from Albert Von Schweikert posted on the Von Schweikert board at Audio Circle. It may answer some questions, or raise new ones. In any case, the full discussion can be found here: http://www.audiocircle.com/circles/index.php?topic... | |
| Biamping, bass and amplifier type. I've biamped in just the way you're considering: a ss amp to the bass cabinets of my vr4 iii's, and dynaco mk iii monoblocs powering the mids and trebles. Though my ss amp puts out 170wpc, and the Dynaco's are rated a 60w, gain difference is not a... | |
| Tube-aholics Anonymous? SS amps are Hondas (or Acuras); tube amps are BMW 2002s (or Jags). Whenever I drove my Accord, all I could think about was how great my old green 2002 was. When my 2002 broke down in West-by-God-Virginia, all I could think about was how nice it mu... | |
| EL 34 vs. KT 88 ---- What's the difference? Pubul57--My Dynaco mk iiis take both el34s and kt88s, but they're powering only the midrange/tweeter cabinets of my VR4 HSEs. Also, my kt88s are EH and the 34s are the winged c variety. That said, despite the fact that the fat bottle kt88s are the... | |
| Sell and refurbish? I've not heard a 8080 after being refurbished, but I've heard Kenwood Supremes before and after. Good before and great after. With thirty years on it, the caps are way, way past their prime, and that probably accounts for the lack of top-end clari... | |
| EL 34 vs. KT 88 ---- What's the difference? Some amps can use both el34s and 88s b/c they have variable bias, allowing you to adjust the bias to the appropriate level for different tubes. | |
| I am sick of cables Thanks Douglas--you're right, you never know, and my shock is your shock. But like you, I find myself saying jc what a waste: $60 for a bottle of wine when you could have a Nos Mullard gz32, er, I mean, 20 meals for the homeless. The Bard said it ... | |
| I am sick of cables bathos, not pathos | |
| I am sick of cables A friend of mine, who is no audiophile, looked at this thread and hypothesized the following: interest in pseudo-problems, like getting an amplified current unmolested through ten feet of wire, is directly proportional to the impossibility of solv... | |
| Do you leave CD players with tube outputs on? It would be interesting to compare the cost of 24/7/365 energy consumption to price of new tubes. | |
| tube amp advice Another suggestion: Dynaco mk iii monos by Will Vincent (autospec here on Audiogon). Lovely amps, authentically retro, and right at 1200 price point. | |
| which tube amp to try??? I'd add to this impressive list of recommendations any of the Will Vincent Dynacos. Very, very hard to beat, and Will can tailor the finish to your taste. | |
| Which Component Needs to be Upgraded First IMHO, and at the risk of telling you something you already know, once you've reached your level of components, and especially since your're not considering a speaker upgrade (and I'm not suggesting that you should consider it), the only way to tel... |