nsgarch
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| At a Levinson crossroads .... need advice. Mike, referring to Viridian's remarks, I noticed your dual amp strategy too. Not only that, but I had those same two amps! And for the same reason ;-) However, much as I loved my 23.5, I like tubes with my electrostats, so I sold my ML and devised... | |
| At a Levinson crossroads .... need advice. Mike, I don't know who the "most people I talked to" were, but I recall that ML had a lot of problems with the transport mechanism in those units. If they were still supporting their products, i'd say fix it because if i remember correctly, they h... | |
| What amp do I need to power my Acoustat 1100 Another best-of-both-worlds hybrid amplifier, which gregadd is planning for his new MartinLogan CLX's, is the latest Moscode hybrid from George Kaye http://www.moscode.com/And while I feel this is a great way to bring some tube signal preservation... | |
| What amp do I need to power my Acoustat 1100 Rodman, I've no desire to split hairs with you because first, you obviously have walked the walk, and second, you're a tube guy, and that's all good in my book!But I'd like to express my POV more succinctly while at the same time addressing the OP... | |
| What amp do I need to power my Acoustat 1100 Rodman, I don't know which ARC preamps you've owned, but the later ones with onboard phonostages (like the SP-14) use a single tube for gain in the phonostage only. The other tubes in a "tube" preamp provide source input buffering -- thus leveling... | |
| What amp do I need to power my Acoustat 1100 If you want a great stereo (actually 'dual mono') SS amp for around $2500+ look for a Mark Levinson 23.5 (not a 23, a 23.5!) 200W @ 8 ohms, and worked beautifully into 0.7 ohms! of my MartinLogan CLS's.If on the other hand you want a great tube am... | |
| New vinyl's noisy little secret Was your Hatari album sealed? If not, it was prabably played by somebody. I find that with albums pressed today, in lower volume production, a lot more mold release is applied to insure better quality pressings. HOWEVER, that means it's more impor... | |
| What amp do I need to power my Acoustat 1100 If you want an SS amp that won't freak out when faced with electrostats, consider the one from Roger Sanders (formerly of Innersound) http://www.sanderssoundsystems.com/If you prefer tubes as I do (for driving electrostats) I recommend one (or pos... | |
| Cartridge Output Sorry Axel, you're quite right -- Jsman in his OP didn't mention what knd of equipment he was using. If I were ever change anything in my system, it would be because I got a great buy on a used 326s! (with phono boards of course ;-) | |
| Cartridge Output Axel, when you mentioned you had gain options on your phono board and then I saw 326s, I had to ask myself if you had the owner's manual; because basically, with a tasty preamp like a 326s, you can use any bloody cartridge you please. I have a 26s... | |
| SS Preamp with Tube Amp? Mapman, you understood I was talking about phono preamps right? With regular preamps, tube rolling generally doesn't seem to have much effect on sonics, compared to tube rolling in amps, so I tend to lean toward SS for those. Now of course if some... | |
| SS Preamp with Tube Amp? The reason I would still choose a SS pre over a tube pre (even assuming the highest quality of either) is because to me, transistors are the device of choice for handling very small/weak signals. There are a number of different reason I feel this ... | |
| SS Preamp with Tube Amp? Guido -- there's this marvelous website called Google http://www.google.com where you can not only find out stuff like "waht's a nonosecond?" but you can also look up the correct spelling for common words like what? ;-)Nanosecond definition here: ... | |
| SS Preamp with Tube Amp? The reason for my "pronouncement" ;-) about the 85% contribution of the amp/speaker/speakercable "group" as it affects system sonic character is as follows:A. The amp is where the signal gets processed the most -- multiplied many many times its or... | |
| SS Preamp with Tube Amp? If you can understand why the sonic charcter of any system is determined 85% or more by the amp/speaker (and speaker cable) combo, then you'll understand that if you want "tube sound" then you need a tube amp -- i.e., a tube preamp and a ss amp wo... |