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| BAT VK-55 monoblock retube for what it is worth, I bought a used VK-55 the other day that came with some vintage green label Sylvania 6SN7's and the previous owner said these sounded better than the stock Sovtek's. | |
| Integrated amp suggestions for Salk SongTowers? my first amp with with SongTowers was a used ~$450 Jolida JD202A. with a set of upgraded tubes the sound was very very good and the 35w was plenty for me. | |
| Suggestions for rock music Manitunc, don't be weird. I'm not looking to carry on chatting with these people, but if I have a question pre/post purchase I want to 1. get a response and 2. get a response from someone who knows what they are talking about. I passed up on buyin... | |
| Suggestions for rock music the von schweikert 4JR are too deep, even deeper than the HT2-TL's. I have an open entryway to contend with.as far as Dynaudio, Psb, Polk, Klipsch RBH line, Paradigm, Monitor Audio, Energy, Infinity - I'm not going to buy any of the bigger name br... | |
| Rega TT Owners - P3-P5-P7 Buy a music hall or pro-ject table, much higher build quality than rega. | |
| Need Help Choosing Good Value Used Speaker $2,000 I can't imagine there being a better $2k speaker out there as the Salk SongTower. | |
| Phono pre direct to amp, what am I missing? Kevin from K&K did provide me some numbers before to use when looking for an amp if I wanted to go direct. I seem to have lost that email and don't remember what they were. I'll get back in touch with him, but assuming I have all the numbers i... | |
| How much would I benefit from an amp upgrade? I did a ton of upgrades this year and in my experience the amp upgrade makes the smallest difference and the room treatments make by far the biggest. | |
| Simple High Quality Tube Preamp for Vinyl Only Sys check out the K&K Audio Maxxed Out, it's a hybrid. the Standard model was a significant upgrade from my EAR 834P. | |
| Phono pre direct to amp, what am I missing? also, how much total gain is needed to make things sound "right"? I mostly listen to rock based music at moderate levels. | |
| Phono pre direct to amp, what am I missing? it would be a K&K phono stage running into a yet to be determined tube amp, maybe a BAT or ARC. | |
| Phono pre direct to amp, what am I missing? I already have the phono pre, I just want to know what I am missing by not having a $2000 pre-amp between the phono pre and the amp. it still sounds like it is only coming down to volume control and that the pre-amp actually does nothing to the so... | |
| Cary SLI-80 bias help Ok, I put the stock KT-88 tubes in and checked the bias the same way, it is 75ma spot on. So, apparently the previous owner never used these Treasure tubes or never re-biased the unit for them. The question now is, should these Treasures get the s... | |
| Cary SLI-80 bias help It is warmed up plenty and I am using the 200m setting in the amperage as I mentioned. Any other ideas? | |
| Cary SLI-80 bias help The left channel is testing 4.5 and the right channel is testing 10.8. |