vicweast
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| Best Class A Amp under $2,000 used? ...he's not listening. | |
| Dealers That Sell Large Volumes of Used Gear Online Underwood — Several purchases, always happy about the price and product (multiple PS Audio PowerPlants).HigherFI — One very happy purchase (Avalon Eidolon).USA Tube Audio — Good deals on Ayon gear (Triton III, CD07) | |
| Ayon measurements I have to say, there isn’t an audiophile who has listened to my Ayon Triton III and Avalon speakers who hasn’t gushed about what they experienced. It is a relatively unknown brand in the US and I expect you can either get a good new price or get a... | |
| Wife trouble I don't get it. Traditional floor plans are the problem. Living rooms have become the appendix of the modern house. People love congregating in kitchens! The poor living room stands alone without hope, envious of the popular kitchen. What to do? A... | |
| Don't buy from HigherFI.com I am not trying to diminish your experience with Higherfi, but I will say that I met Chris at his home in Florida and have been very happy with the Avalon speakers he sold me. (I only spoke with him by phone before, after I saw the speakers listed... | |
| I've decided to try Tubes I started my path away from solid state toward tubes with a Rogue Cronus integrated. It was a revelation, but not the most refined amp -- serious bang for the buck, however. For a few months I switched between a killer Ayon KT88-based amp and a Ra... | |
| Anticables Around 2 years ago I bought an 8 foot pair of AntiCables speaker cables. They made a profound and immediate positive effect in my system. Initially they connected a Rogue Audio "Cronus Magnum" KT88-based tube amp to a pair of Avalon Acoustics "Eid... | |
| How long will tubes last in a pre-amp? I have yet to see a preamp tube fail, in contrast I've had a few failures in power tubes (KT120, KT88) that were either silent or resulted in a sudden burst of illumination and no more music... | |
| Raven Audio Tube amps @styxtrekr (I've been away from this thread...) You asked: "What cables and interconnects did you settle on"?I am using Homegrown Audio "Silver Lace" RCA interconnects which are silver wire Litz configuration cables. They are very delicate but I ... | |
| THE WALL---Why? I am one of those audiophiles who have gotten excellent results when using an over-speced PowerPlant to clean and buffer my wall current. I've tried it both ways, and I vote AMP plugged into the regenerator. (By over-speced I mean my equipment dra... | |
| Are there any active DC area audio groups/clubs/etc ? (I am in Reston) Source: http://everythingaudionetwork.blogspot.com/2016/07/new-hi-fi-group-forms-for-dc-md-va.html The following is copied directly from that website (SUBJECT TO CHANGE THERE!):Washington, DC — Introducing a membership organization for like-minded... | |
| Your first component that was "special" Nakamichi LX 5 3-head cassette deck. This deck never, ever ate a cassette. It sounded great, it was fun to maintain and it was easy to get great recording results from. I still have boxes of tapes I recorded from off-the-air (Reggae and old record... | |
| Tinnitus remedy? You might get my guns, but you will never, ever get my coffee! | |
| Doubling a Set of Speaker Cables @almarg Thank you for the excellent information. Have you any direct experience with Paul Spelt's Zero- Autoformers? It seems to me that they have the opposite effect over doubling (or more) a speaker cable run, do I understand that correctly? | |
| Music Server format? I am afraid this is a personal decision, but there are several things to keep in mind. If you start with a recording and convert it, the most you will get in the conversion is the same quality albeit in a different format. If you are not careful i... |