thom_s
Responses from thom_s
| Designer Hall of Fame surprised no-one mentioned him ... | |
| amps for Merlin VSM-MXE Several years ago I gave Bobby a list of amps available used in a certain price range and he picked the RM-9, RM-200 and Cary (either SixPacs or V12R). I picked up a V12R with the 12BZ7 input tubes and absolutely love it with my VSM-MMe. | |
| Truely Balanced Pre Amps an excellent preamp. Only available used, of course. | |
| TSM-MM not loud enough ... I guess I should have known better ... My fault for NOT saying I've already talked with Bobby, (this was a few months ago, I would doubt you remember, B, given the volume of call you probably receive) I was looking for specific info regarding othe... | |
| Personal speaker evolution Rat Shack Criterion two-waysKLH Model 5DIY LS3 5a - KEF T27 and B110Acoustat Model 2Vandersteen 2CeQuad ESL63 w/ Janus W2 subs, Dalhquist DQLP-1 crossoverKEF 104/2Green Mountain Europa w/ Vandy 2WqMerlin TSM-MM w/ Vandy 2Wq | |
| What new amp for my Merlins I called Bobby and gave him four choices that I had, not including Joule-Electra, and hands down it was the Cary V12R. He recommended the Six Pacs as well, but I wanted the 100 watt UL option. I drive mine with Raytheon 5751s instead of the 12BZ7 ... | |
| First Sound Preamp Owner's - What NOS tubes????? I have found my FS Presence Del. Mk II, like any other component, highly sensitive to other gear in the system.My Merlin TSM-MM monitors were excessively bright and this was tamed by moving from NOS Amperex (D-getter 6922, BB and Orange Globe 6DJ8... | |
| Recommend relatively obscure high end tube preamps Any of the progression of Emmanual Go's First Sound preamps, beginning with the Presence Deluxe Mk II, very impressive, simple dual-mono construction, massive power supply, all copper-plated steel chassis, one tube in the signal path, tube shunt r... | |
| Amperex 6922 overkill? I have an AN 1.1 DAC and recommend that you first try the Ei Elite 6DJ8 ... it is a very similar tube to the Amperex house sound and will work fine in the AN. Where they don't work well is in high-stress preamps like Audio Research, eats those old... | |
| Green Mountain Audio still in business? appears to be buried in work, hopefully that's a good thing. Promised to get my Europa's out first of week, an internal oversight, he thought they went out weeks ago. I'm cool with that. | |
| Green Mountain Audio still in business? for about a month. I've e-mailed Roy 2 days ago, but no response, I'll be calling him tommorrow. Hope I'm not in the same camp as the other guy who claims never rec'd speakers |