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| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Just a few comments. Comparing Dodge Ram to fine car = ignorant. Calling tube amps "toys" = ignorant. The term "Load Invariant" sounds like the marketing terminology used for Carver amps back in the day = some of the worst sounding amps I ever hea... | |
| Atmasphere amps trustable? Thank you Atmasphere - very well stated. | |
| Atmasphere amps trustable? This thread is interesting and informative. I have owned Solid State and Tubes amps from many manufacturers over the years, but I have never owned Atmasphere amps (or any other OTL) for that matter. I would like to try them some day. As for the ge... | |
| Audio Research D79C Amp I have a D-79 (first all-tube version with no letter designation) supposedly tweaked by Bill Johnson himself for an Audio show at the time. It was my Father's amp, and he truly loved ARC gear, and owned it since the company started producing equip... | |
| Do ClassDAudio Amps Have Proper Decay Of Notes? I have one of the small class D amps based on the TPA3116D2 board and I bought it as an experiment. This is a very inexpensive amp so I hardly expect it to be state-of-the-art like some of the larger more expensive class D amps out there. It is my... | |
| ARC VS60 Amp question Sorry I had a typo in the last sentence of my response. I meant to say that I suspect the VS60 is a fine amp that would sound good with monitors or floorstanders. | |
| ARC VS60 Amp question I agree with the other posters and my guess is they mean the amp is not limited to powering small monitors, and it is capable of also powering large full-range speakers as well. I had a VT60 (older model from the 1990's and should have never sold ... | |
| Neat Momentum SX5i or Rega RX5 I have the RS3's which are the previous model and a size down from the RX5's. I have often thought of upgrading to the 5's but I can say the Rega speakers are very nice. I bought them new after owning the RS1 and I was not disappointed. They are ... | |
| Audio Research D300 vs Classe DR9 I cannot speak for the Classe other than I know it is very fine gear. I did, however own a D300 years ago and I wish I would have never sold it. At the time I was driving a pair of Magnepan MG 1.6 and I switched off between the ARC and several oth... | |
| B&W - 704 vs Matrix 804 I cannot speak for the 804, but I owned the 704, 603S3 and the 684. First I owned the 603S3 years ago. I bough them based on the reviews (big mistake) and listening to them at the local dealer. Got them home and listeners fatigue set in after awhi... | |
| Re-capping A 15 Year Old Solid State Amp I am not implying that one should purposely buy an amp 15 years old or older, but I am saying that I don't think they should be afraid to either, if it is made of quality components. There is no reason to be afraid of an amp that was not manufactu... | |
| Re-capping A 15 Year Old Solid State Amp Ebm - In your statement "I won't buy a 15 year old amp as its history!!" all I can say is you must be buying throw-away junk!!. I have owned many Solid State and Tube amps much older than that from reputable companies (ARC, Conrad-Johnson, McCorma... | |
| Is your tube amp really a tube amp? In my limited experience I have listened to and owned some amps that were all tube (tube rectifier, voltage regulator, etc.) and some that were tube but had solid state retifiers and voltage regulators. To me, the ones with solid state components ... | |
| Do true audiophiles own Mcintosh gear Taters - Since you have managed to repeatedly bash McIntosh gear on multiple threads, please enlighten the rest of us and suggest gear that you think is "good" since you obviously feel that McIntosh is "no good". | |
| Amp and preamp on same outlet? In the "old days" Preamps had switched outlets on the back where you would plug the amps into because the amps did not have a power switch. Some examples from ARC were the SP3A (still one of the best sounding Preamps I have ever heard) and the SP6... |