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November 4, 2019, 11:14 AM #101
Re: Tubed Power Amplifiers. Are the disadvantages too great ?
Sales guys irritate me when they say I have to have such and such. Especially speakers. I like my open baffle and Magnepans. Plus tubes. One guy keeps telling me I don't know what I like and need a boxed speaker with a SS amp. I haven't bought anything from him in a long time.
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November 4, 2019, 11:14 AM #102
Re: Tubed Power Amplifiers. Are the disadvantages too great ?
Sales guys irritate me when they say I have to have such and such. Especially speakers. I like my open baffle and Magnepans. Plus tubes. One guy keeps telling me I don't know what I like and need a boxed speaker with a SS amp. I haven't bought anything from him in a long time.
First Sound Mark3SI preamp. Audion Black Shadow 845 SET Monoblocks. Mojo Audio Deja Vu Server. Mojo Audio Mystic 3 DAC. Linear Solution Ethernet Switch. Gigafoil with LPS. STST Motus II TT with Vertere SG1 arm, Hana ML Cartridge, Allnic H1201 phono pre. Pure Audio Project Trio 15 Horn speakers with Mundord Supreme oil caps. Power via 10 awg Oyaide cable from panel to custom distribution strip feeding front end. Oyaide dedicated10 AWG branch circuits from panel to each amp. Inakustik speaker and interconnect cables, Genesis Interconnect.
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November 4, 2019, 01:23 PM #103
Re: Tubed Power Amplifiers. Are the disadvantages too great ?
You don't know what you like! LOL! He probably trying to sell you what makes him the most money. He doesn't care what it is. Maybe he's working on a plan to pay off the new car he has on order.
Doug
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July 26, 2022, 01:22 AM #104
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Re: Tubed Power Amplifiers. Are the disadvantages too great ?
I have had some type of tube gear in my system since the early nineties. I have had several tube preamps and about a half dozen amps and they have been incredibly reliable. I owe this I believe to using quality tubes and not tube rolling. I have had a few bad tubes, a couple blown resistors but over all, the tube gear I have had has never really let me down.
My preamp, amps and DAC use tubes and they are as quiet or quieter than some of the SS gear I have had. Specifically my Zesto Leto preamp. The most silent, darkest , blackest background I have ever experienced. It's S/N, crosstalk , and FR are pretty impressive for a tube pre. My Quicksilvers have been super reliable and sound great.
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August 4, 2022, 10:18 PM #105
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Re: Tubed Power Amplifiers. Are the disadvantages too great ?
I purchased a Pass XA25 last year as I sold two tube amps that I had. This XA25 does everything technically correct but it just doesn't have the "organic" sound of tubes. So as of now I am looking for a 20 - 30 wpc tube amp, possibly a Prima Luna. The only thing holding me back is it took me quite a bit of time to get the bass right in my small room. The Pass has a high damping factor and a tube amp will be quite low. Maybe even a Atma-Sphere S30? Speakers are Volti Razz.
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August 6, 2022, 07:21 AM #106
Re: Tubed Power Amplifiers. Are the disadvantages too great ?
For me the question is, Are the advantages of tuba amps to few?
Folks like tube amps because of the sort of distortion the produce -- not that there's anything wrong with that. OTOH other folks like high resolution, articulate bass, and crisp dynamics more than the softer, fuller tube sound.~ Bill
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August 6, 2022, 09:06 AM #107
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Re: Tubed Power Amplifiers. Are the disadvantages too great ?
You are stereotyping ( no pun intended ) tube amps in funny way. Folks like tube amps because, many times, they just sound more musical. A lot of folks don't break down highs, mids and lows when listening. We just sit back and close our eyes and it is either more musical or it's not.
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August 11, 2022, 10:31 AM #108
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Re: Tubed Power Amplifiers. Are the disadvantages too great ?
I've run big tube amps (8 - 12 power tubes, and 6 - 8 small tubes each) for 12 years now. Tubes turned out to be much more reliable and low-maintenance than the impressions I got from reading about tube concerns / issues / fears online. My main main problem is the impulse to buy lots of different variants for rolling. The sonic debate tubes vs. SS is always going to be there. The stereotypes are true to a degree, but if your tube amp has egregiously tubby bass and HF rolloff then something is seriously wrong of mismatched. But I'd much rather have a tube die than a transistor, in any piece of high-end gear. Good luck finding some long-OOP silicon (especially high voltage audio transistors) if something goes wrong.
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Yesterday, 07:26 PM #109
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Re: Tubed Power Amplifiers. Are the disadvantages too great ?
I only need about 15wpc so I called Mike the other day and was going to order a Luxman MQ-88uC. The trouble is they are many months away for delivery, I still might order one in the next week or so anyway. In the meantime I ordered a Carver Black Magic, it's an EL34 amp with 25wpc. I seriously don't have real high hopes for this amp but for $1995 and a full return policy I won't have much to lose. But then again I didn't high hopes for the little VTL EL34 amp I bought many years ago either and that thing was a very sweet little amp.
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Today, 09:16 AM #110
Re: Tubed Power Amplifiers. Are the disadvantages too great ?
Hope you find what you're looking for.
Gotta chuckle though: Luxman and Carver tube amps have both received atrocious reviews recently at ASR.
ASR review: Luxman SQ-N150
ASR review: Carver Crimson 275
ASR review: VTL~ Bill
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Today, 09:21 AM #111
Re: Tubed Power Amplifiers. Are the disadvantages too great ?
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Today, 09:40 AM #112
Re: Tubed Power Amplifiers. Are the disadvantages too great ?
~ Bill
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Today, 09:57 AM #113
Re: Tubed Power Amplifiers. Are the disadvantages too great ?
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Today, 12:02 PM #114
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Today, 01:45 PM #115
Re: Tubed Power Amplifiers. Are the disadvantages too great ?
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Today, 02:13 PM #116
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Re: Tubed Power Amplifiers. Are the disadvantages too great ?
I have been involved in hobby since about 1969 or so and I don't care how anything tests. If you can't tell a good piece of gear by listening save your money and purchase Bose. BTW, I do agree that Atkinson is the best tester because he explains his findings. BTW #2, My speakers ( Volti Razz ) test horrible but sound excellent and get rave reviews. How is this possible if they test so poorly?
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Today, 02:41 PM #117
Re: Tubed Power Amplifiers. Are the disadvantages too great ?
Originally Posted by stereogeek;351031[B
If you have a pair of speakers that are 87dB sensitive at 1w/1m and they are nominally a 4 ohm speaker with 2 ohm dips, you probably aren't going to try and drive them with a 7 watt SE tube amp.Micro Seiki SX-8000 air bearing table, SME 312s arm, SME 3012R arn, Dynavector XV-1s cartridge, Lyra Etna SL cartridge, ARC Ref 3 phono stage, Otari MX-55 2 track R2R, Ampex 350 tape repros, Roon Nucleus Plus music server, PS Audio DSJ DAC, ARC Ref 6, ARC Ref 75 with KT-150s, JBL 4345 speakers, Viero Equilibro Level 3 speaker cables, and Definitive Technology Ref subs.
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Today, 05:54 PM #118
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Re: Tubed Power Amplifiers. Are the disadvantages too great ?
I 100% agree with you on matching the amp and speaker. But choosing a component on measurements alone, no thanks.
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Those look like Monitor 4's.
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