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| 300b lovers Understood. The Kootenai is a fantastic amp, as I know having one. Let your pocketbook be your guide, but to be honest, Don and Lynn's 300b monos are in a whole different realm of musical excellence. Maybe you can come hear them at the Seattle ... | |
| 300b lovers Wig, Dandy system you have, for sure. You have nominal 4 ohm speakers and if the Kootenai drives them to your satisfaction, then the 300b Statement monos will drive them as well, with an astonishing clarity that will be simply stunning. Cheers. | |
| 300b lovers Don and Thom, Gents, with all due respect, an 81-83 db SPL from my speakers conveys none of the emotional aspect of my music so I prefer it more around 88-90 db, thereabouts. I want a visceral impact to the sound of my system and 83 db does not ... | |
| 300b lovers Lynn, Oh yea of little faith... Very few speakers play nearly as well as the Spatials in less-than-perfect rooms and your front end will be tremendous so great sound is a foregone conclusion. Your room is gonna sound sensational and I am going ... | |
| 300b lovers Lynn, My local tube tech was good friends with Charlie who lived near Sacramento and he had immense respect for him. He published a magazine which I am sure you aware of, 100% tube centric. I never met him but he was a legend in this neck of th... | |
| 300b lovers Ralph, Your comments on this this thread, as on any thread, are extremely informative. I have not had the pleasure of hearing your new affordably-priced Class D monos and maybe they will be playing at the Seattle show later this month so I coul... | |
| 300b lovers Ricevs, Pardon my incorrect reference to my amp: it was the VTV AMPLIFIER Stereo Purifi Audio 1ET400A Amplifier. The guy that bought it from me was over the moon happy with the sound of the amp. | |
| 300b lovers Charles, As a 300b amp owner yourself, you know whereof I speak. Expect a report back on this thread in due time when the Cube speakers are run in. Some folks agree that Cube's driver technology is one of the biggest leaps forward in speaker d... | |
| 300b lovers Gents, I have had several Class D amps in my system in the past 10 years, and the earlier versions of them were dry and lifeless after extended listening sessions. In the last couple of years, I had the VTV Audio EVO 1200 Class D amp with the Pu... | |
| 300b lovers I rather think that there is inherent magic in the employment of 300b tubes, which I discovered with my Willsenton 300b amp with all of 8 wpc. It drove my Spatial just fine... until it didn't. With these monos, there is no such limitation on db ... | |
| 300b lovers @jeff_ss Being an owner of Don's Vahalla tube integrated, might your "handle" more appropriately be "@jeff_tubes"? ;-) I have the Triode Masters and heard the Sapphires and was not compelled to upgrade. However, the X-series is a different... | |
| 300b lovers Since rolling out of bed in the morning, your amps have been filling my room with amazing sounds, and I appreciate greatly the design thought that went into them, the technical derivations of which is way over my head. The amps, now with the exce... | |
| 300b lovers Great response, Ralph, answering questions I have long wondered about. My Sachs monos put out a fair amount of heat so I mounted a couple of noiseless computer fans at the back of my rack to dissipate the heat to a degree. | |
| 300b lovers It is evident to me that Don's new preamp is designed to mate in such a fashion with the mono blocks, connected with balanced cabling. | |
| 300b lovers To Lynn's comments about the need for big power for your speakers, that Class D amps get the job done, I would humbly add that an excellent tube preamp such as Don makes in the path adds a measure of bloom and euphonic sound that so many of us des... |