jhw9
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| Highest BUILD quality tube amps? +1 for Rogue.I mentioned Kondo/Audio Note earlier but I also use a Rogue preamp (modified by the factory), and they're great. Great service.. they care about their work and customers. | |
| Highest BUILD quality tube amps? ....or Audio Note may be the more familiar name. | |
| Highest BUILD quality tube amps? Kondo (Japan) | |
| Speakers with the most detailed midrange? (non-ESL/planar) I mentioned the NEAR 10m’s. To clarify, if hunting down a pair, the later versions (all black woofers and 1.1in inverted dome Ti tweeter) were ok, but to my ears, the earlier models with raw alu woofer dustcaps and smaller Ti tweeters sound more r... | |
| Speakers with the most detailed midrange? (non-ESL/planar) or these are also good if you honestly don’t mind ports...http://greenmountainaudio.com/rio/ | |
| Speakers with the most detailed midrange? (non-ESL/planar) ..or if you’re looking for small and cheap, not minding limited LF, i’d recommend a pair of vintage NEAR 10m’s, which are a rare little two-way with proprietary spider-less drivers. I preferred the originals (silver woofer caps and smaller tweeter... | |
| Speakers with the most detailed midrange? (non-ESL/planar) This has much to do with overall speed, ability to reproduce an accurate impulse response in the lower registers (ie no out-of-phase bass ports), and aligned mf/hf phase coherence by avoiding all sorts of interpolation issues between drivers at th... | |
| Tube Preamps..... I second the Denafrips DAC. For preamps, I’ve had a half dozen or so, but a few years ago bought a demo Rogue Metis Magnum for only $1100 (didn’t even listen to the stock tubes initially) and being new to tube preamps paired w solid state amps, ov... | |
| For tube sound, which is more important: preamp or power amp? let me let me append all that with the answer to your Q.The amp will give you the most tube sound. Preamp is merely seasoning (although sometimes the seasoning makes for the best soup). | |
| For tube sound, which is more important: preamp or power amp? I have tried all combination's with exception (by choice) to having both the pre and amp being tubed.I find for low level, late night listening, a tube amp or integrated amp will sound much better than anything else for the money.A tube preamp is ... | |
| What is your speaker ownership history since 1995? Old to New:Klipsch Heresy (these got me started.. found in nice shape at a rural landfill!)Mission 737PSB 600Celestion 3 (bedroom)NEAR 10m (bedroom)NEAR 50me mk IVon Schweikert VR4 gen 1NEAR 50me mk IIMagnepan MC-1 (w/ B&W PV-1)Audiosmile LBM'... | |
| Looking for the good sounding Pre Amplifier I’m a former NAD owner, so know that house sound somewhat. They’ve generally got good dynamic range but with mediocre transparency using a lot of feedback. A tube preamp is not a bad idea running with lower tiered Solid State AB amps to inject som... | |
| Recommendations please for good, affordable pre-amp for system? I’d recommend a TVC passive as it’s going to avoid most of the issues with impedance matching, will give you a very very low noise floor (prob most important quality for a preamp) and unlike other passives, they are still revealing at low volume l... |