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| Best PLace To Buy Chinese Tubes? Just bumped across this thread. Here's my two bits' worth: Buy your Chinese directly from a Chinese seller of good repute. Most are on Fleabay but I see a few on Amazon, too. Whether PSVane or SG, plan on a 1 in 15-20 either DOA or very short-live... | |
| Tung Sol 6550 vs. GEC/Genelex/Gold Monarch KT88 @noromance@tvad@lizardzkingI guess we belong to a rather exclusive club. I'm angling for another quad of the GEC Marconis with a guy right now but I fear the days of the $750 NOS quad are over, unless you're willing to take your chances on counter... | |
| Tung Sol 6550 vs. GEC/Genelex/Gold Monarch KT88 I "lucked" across a brand-new quad of the original GEC MO Gold Monarchs a year ago. I play them every day and they continue to astound. I'm hoping by the time they're worn completely out, the Chinese, who are getting close, will have achieved a si... | |
| SOS: Andy Bowman - Vintage Tube Services Andy's alive and well as of a week ago. Bought a nice foursome of GEC KT-88s from him.ONLY call Andy; he never checks his emails. | |
| The ups and downs of tube vs. SS... @wspohn I'm kinda the same way. I've got s/s in the man-cave and toobs in the big room. There is a huge variation in the sound of, say, a Bedini s/s amp or an s/s Mac. Ditto with tube amps. My speaks (Tylers) are 90 dB and I listen to damn near an... | |
| Looking for speaker suggestions Hate to sound like the proverbial broken record here, but DO investigate Tyler Accoustics in Kentucky. Blows the doors off Vandersteens for one-third the money. | |
| Do I have to brand match preamp and amp? Mixing and matching is not a problem UNLESS you're talking about tubes and solid-state. There's a huge impedance difference between a tube pre-amp's output and a sand amp's inputs. It *can* be corrected by re-capping the tube pre-amp but IMHO not ... | |
| Best used or new DAC under $3500 If you can snag an Aqua La Scala with the Optologic upgrade you'll be in tall cotton. | |
| New system has fatiguing, harsh high frequency sounds. How to fix? @lowerdrive, There’s always the $3 Wal-Mart experiment. Buy a pair of white winter socks and hang them over the tweeters, see if that doesn’t smooth things out. Also. I think break-in is only an issue for tube gear. | |
| Full-sounding SS amps (besides Pass) Consider a Bedini. Not made anymore as both John and Gary have passed on, but if you put out some feelers you might snag one. They were all Class A. John was a genius when it came to audio. They run remarkably cool for Class A. If you see a 200/20... | |
| Cartridges: Complete Scam? Get a decent Grado or Ortofon and call it good. | |
| Best looking reel to reel The Technics RS-1500 series, especially one rehabbed by J-Corder in Gig Habour, WA. | |
| Worked Backwards and Would like to Hear Suggestions on Speakers Tyler Acoustics. Hand-built in Kentucky. Phenomenal sound. He only sells direct. I have Tyler's Highland H-1s and have referred several friends to him and they are as over the moon about the sound as I am. Very efficient so they run well with tube... | |
| Please help me chose a tube preamp I second the Don Sachs DS-2 recommendation. Love mine, and you have a vast selection of options (XLR ins, remote volume control, and caps) to choose from. Start price is around $2k. I have owned many other tube preamps for 10x the price but this ... | |
| Is it possible to buy a decent tube amplifier in the $2000-3000 range? Check out these bad boys, a pair of M-125 monoblocks, http://www.tubes4hifi.com/bob.htmScroll down to the bottom for the M-125s. Or yes, as whitestix says, go with one of Don Sach's KT-88 amps. http://www.dsachsconsulting.com/custom%20kt88%20tube%... |