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| Harbeth 40.2 OR Spendor Classic 100 OR ?? It's important to use the Spendors on the Sound Anchor stands designed for them. I also tried Skylan stands and several homemade stands, but none of them sounded as good to my ears as the Sound Anchors. | |
| Harbeth 40.2 OR Spendor Classic 100 OR ?? I am sure the room placement will vary depending on the particular room. My room is 14.5' x 20 x 8, and I had the Spendors along the shorter wall roughly 5' from the rear wall and 2.5' from the side walls. | |
| Harbeth 40.2 OR Spendor Classic 100 OR ?? I owned SP-100 speakers for nearly 20 years and found them very satisfying on a wide range of music. They are truly a "music lover's speaker." I seriously considered some of the speakers on your list as possible replacements for the Spendors inc... | |
| KLE Innovations Silver HarmonyRCA's - not silver eh? Regardless of KLEI’s advertising claims (which I consider to be lies), what ultimately matters is the sound quality, and that’s where I find the KLEI plugs to fall short. I have both Copper Harmony and Absolute plugs. The Absolute was a signific... | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp Prof, you mentioned the Parasound and Sim Audio phono stages. What were the other three you tried previously? | |
| When it sounds like a tube amp needs rejuvenating, Short of catastrophic failures, tubes that are past their prime can sound “tired” or lackluster; you start noticing treble doesn’t have the life and sparkle you were used to. The best approach is to buy a new set of tubes before they are needed, t... | |
| Like the new look to audiogon ? The owners/managers of Audiogon are clueless idiots. I gave up on selling gear on Audiogon back when the new owners/managers took over and raised the fees. But I still visited whenever I was interested in buying something or just wanted to brows... | |
| EL34 in triode vs 300B/845 SET I have never heard a single-ended amp with DHT output tubes in parallel (PSET). I have read that putting a pair of DHT tubes like 2A3 or 300B in parallel tends to move the sound away from the SE sound and towards a push-pull sound, but that is on... | |
| EL34 in triode vs 300B/845 SET As others have said, you need to choose which component to keep—-the 300B SET or the B&W—-and then move from there. I would just add that if you keep the speakers you don’t have to go to a Levinson behemoth. You can stay with tubes with the ... | |
| In search of respectable/reasonable tube amps with 16 ohm taps The photo of the underside of the EICO HF-35 amps is interesting. The modifier has converted the amps to fixed bias rather than stock cathode bias, he is using a 12ax7 for the front end instead of the EF86, he improved the amp ground connections ... | |
| Looking for a warm sweet speaker A used pair of Spendor SP100 speakers would be just what you’re looking for. They don’t come up that often but when they do you can get a good set for around $2000. I had a pair for over 15 years before finally parting with them last year. The ... | |
| A New Coltrane Recording! That’s great news! It is hard to believe there would be any Coltrane recordings still unreleased but labels did lots of strange things back then. | |
| New Thread on Steve Hoffman website that says Audiogon sucks +1 Shadorne. I haven’t liked any of SH’s reissue masterings. I don’t know why he seems to have the reputation he does. Plus his “reviews” of equipment on his forum seem directly related to which mfrs have given him long-term loans.Other than Ho... | |
| New Thread on Steve Hoffman website that says Audiogon sucks I have two complaints about the Audiogon forums, or more accurately about the people who post here. First, there are too many people who post emphatic, seemingly authoritative comments who do not have actual first-hand experience to back up their... | |
| Racks - what’s awesome without impacting my kids college plans? As much as I like Sound Anchors for my turntable stand, I would not recommend them for electronics. I had intended to use the two shelves below my turntable for my preamps, but unfortunately anything placed on the steel supports acquires an edgin... |