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| What are the best tube amps for Klipschorns? You might also consider vertical bi-amping, keeping your Levinsons on the bass, and purchase some tube amps for your mids and highs. It would be a bit more complex to setup and balance out, but it may give you the results you want. A friend of min... | |
| Tube SET Pre to Tube SET Amp Sorry Warren - thought you were asking 'bout going to separates...didn't notice it was only a declaration. As it happens, I use Mike Sanders very affordable silver IC's to go between amp and pre. Go figure. I'm starting to sound like a shill here,... | |
| Telling Left from Right on unlabeled RCA cables Get the Sterophile Test CD which has a speaker channel orientation track. It will take you 10 seconds to fugure it.I would strongly discourage attempting to play a CD on your turntable. Unless I've completely lost touch with the advancements in te... | |
| Tube SET Pre to Tube SET Amp Second hand, and first hand experience here, Warren: Mike Sanders is going into production on his design of KT88 paralell SET mono amps. I'm not sure when they'll be available, but it should be pretty soon. A mutual friend of Mike and mine owns a ... | |
| Large room but not large budget-suggestions please If you are patient and can keep an eye on the ads here on a regular basis, I bet you could upgrade both amp and speakers and have a really nice system. I'd look for Soliloquy 5.3's (because the company is no longer in business all their speakers s... | |
| Best speaker for small 12x14 room 50 WPC tube amp While they do go nicely down to @40hz , I really don't think that they could compare to the Heritage series from Klipsh in the base department .Actually much of the Klipsch Heritage series do not go that low...I think this is a common misconceptio... | |
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| Odyssey Stratos or Krell 400Xi for Usher 6381's Just want to point out, though you may already know; the Stratos is a power amp that requires a preamp or an input with some kind of variable attenuation (passive or active). I say this because the Krell you were considering is an integrated amp w... | |
| Best speaker for small 12x14 room 50 WPC tube amp Heresy's might be a good choice, but I suspect you will not get as much bass as you might like. I've owned both Heresy's and TC50's. One direction you might try if you are runing tubes is a Galante Rhapsody. It is a bit on the larger side of a mon... | |
| Odyssey Stratos or Krell 400Xi for Usher 6381's I'll chime in with a third recommendation for the Stratos Dual Mono. I'm actually the one who purchased the one recently sold and have had it in my system for a week now. Sorry, but I can't compare it directly with the Krell. It does take an autho... | |
| First song to "Blow You Away"... I don't know about the Denver Omlette Brain syndrome, but the earliest albums that I remember really opening my ears to music that I'd never heard before that were Tommy by The Who, and the Beatles Sgt. Pepper. I enjoy both still, but they're cert... | |
| Warm and Detailed S.S. Amp? Newbee - I did not use the Cary with the Panache, but with the Odyssey dual mono. The Panache is an integrated amp (actually, technically it's not quite that since the pre, I believe, is a passive stage - look to their site or one of the many revi... | |
| Warm and Detailed S.S. Amp? Grant - Yes, I have been very impressed with the Panache over the past year. It is a difficult amp to fault. I've replaced it for now with an Odyssey dual mono. It does some things better, but then there are also some qualities it is missing. The ... | |
| Warm and Detailed S.S. Amp? Nsgarch - My system pix are dated and need revision. My Klipsch horn speakers are temporarily in storage. I listen primarily to two systems, one tube, on SS. Along with the Muse 2+ DAC, which I still love though it is long in the tooth as far as c... | |
| Warm and Detailed S.S. Amp? if warmth implies an attenuation in the lower treble, a component cannot be warm and detailed.You are the only one who's mentioned attenuation in the lower treble. I don't think all the amps we're talking about here necessarily have that defect ("... |