fsonicsmith
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| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Since when is "reseller" a bad word? You are mounting a defense to an imagined attack. I envy the deal you got on your Ref 6-congrats. | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Going by the history of this thread, I don’t think OP has ever owned anything more than couple of months. I believe he is a reseller who has been graciously sharing his personal experiences. The end game is to churn high end components for profi... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! @fsonicsmith Are you stocked up on essentials? You might not be leaving your listening room. Congratulations! So kind of you, thx. I am going to be 58 soon. I used to spend small fortunes on custom made bicycles. I broke my hip in November a... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! So crazy to me whitecamaross that you've stayed away from good tube amplification for so long. I can't remember if your preamp is the Ref 5se or 6 (or other), but as good as the GS150 is, the Ref 6 is reported by most in the know to be even better... | |
| Directionality of wire Ok, back to your corners guys... Let's say wire has a direction created from the formation of the wire, and in theory will pass the signal better one direction vs. the other. But wait... music signal is all AC, so whichever way you place the wir... | |
| Directionality of wire I'm new here. I posted my OP with sincere interest. I have been informed the topic has been beaten to death previously. I did NOT intend to fan the flames of past bad blood between longstanding participants. I obviously don't get to play referee o... | |
| Directionality of wire How will you do that? You can’t flip balanced cables end to end. All you can hope is the manufacture assembled the ends with the wire direction the same for each balanced cable.Doh! This dumbass goof on my part demonstrates my lack of experience w... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Fsonicsmith if you roll KT150s in your Ref150se it will sound like the GS 150! kw6, the Ref150se was designed and built around the KT150. It comes with KT150's. As I mentioned earlier in this long thread, I contacted ARC and asked if there was any... | |
| Directionality of wire When it comes to cables, I am open to the majority of concepts that can't be explained or measured by electrical engineers. I DO find it difficult to ignore the advice/philosophy of the maker of the cable on hand. Until recently I was using Chris ... | |
| Directionality of wire As I've posted elsewhere, it IS true that I am new to the A-Gon fora. That's because I used to be a regular on AA and it sufficed. But that asylum has become dead and this one seems more active so I've migrated here. I have 40 years experience in ... | |
| Directionality of wire Further, Audioquest, a strong advocate of wire directionality, is hardly a one man operation. I apologize for sounding rude, but please read carefully before you pipe-off. I specifically contrasted AQ as a "big boy" operation.As to the rest, I don... | |
| Warm, rich sounding interconnects? As a true cynic, warm, to me, means just enough 2nd harmonic distoetion, such as Conrad Johnson and Audio Research have been purported to intentionally add to their designs.OK. With respect, you need to read up on the inherent electrical character... | |
| Upgrading amplifiera. Without picking on anyone in particular, there are some wayward responses above. The correct answer is that it all depends. The amp has to mate with the loudspeaker. A 16 ohm ultra sensitive horn doesn't need much more than a watt or three and a p... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Humble Acoustic Zen Adagio's. I like them. | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! The GS150 is sonically identical to the REf150se, same topology and parts, just different layout and casework/meters. I got that info right from the source. I just unboxed my brand new Ref150se last night. Though it looks a bit plain in the pics o... |