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Post by klinemj on Feb 28, 2019 18:15:18 GMT -5
I really do like the sound of my PrimaLuna tube amp. And, it'a very pretty, too.
Mark
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Post by petew on Feb 28, 2019 19:17:57 GMT -5
link>>>Mr Carlson's Lab<<<linkThis guy has a lot of interesting videos. He seconds Keith's recommendation: If you don't know what you're doing, you shouldn't be messing around inside tube equipment.
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Post by bootman on Feb 28, 2019 19:32:30 GMT -5
link>>>Mr Carlson's Lab<<<linkThis guy has a lot of interesting videos. He seconds Keith's recommendation: If you don't know what you're doing, you shouldn't be messing around inside tube equipment. I posted his how a tube works video here in the lounge. He knows his stuff and explains it well.
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Post by vcautokid on Feb 28, 2019 19:47:30 GMT -5
Tubes are wonderful. Expensive to sell and not for everyone to buy. Conrad Johnson, McIntosh, and VTL, and VAC is where I got most of my experience with. Almost got some Cary Audio's guy backed out last minute. Who knew?
Prima Luna is doing it well and just about the only one I could recommend to anyone because it just takes care of itself. They got this tube thing beat. Priced reasonably, relatively, and the adaptive autobias keeps the user from doing anything stupid.
Loved my Prima Luna while I had it. A Prologue Two. It was just so easy to get along with. Not Solid State, but not picky annoying like some Tube gear I had. My favorite out right was a VTL Preamplifier. It was sweet.
Tubes are flavor savored by not the rational, but the passionate. You both know who you are. ๐๐
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Post by simpleman68 on Feb 28, 2019 20:36:40 GMT -5
I have a bunch of tube amps, all in working condition. My pride is a Marantz 8b, a 2 channel amp which has 4 EL34 in a push pull configuration (about 35 watts per ch.). Next I have Audio Electronics Six Pak Mono Blocks. Each has 6 EL34s in a parallel push pull configuration giving 60 watts output. Then I have a real SET mono block set - George Wright Mono 7, a single 300b with DC heaters that puts out 7 watts. Next, I have a stereo Melody I2A3 stereo amp rated at 18 watts per channel. Then I have a little Glow Audio One Amp that I use for headphones. It has EL84 output tubes rated 6 watts. Lastly I have a tube multi channel (6) Dared DV-6C (really a hybrid design) that has 3 12XA7 tubes in the front end. I have only fired up the Dared one time, it just set on the shelf. I have a tube preamp also, a Cary Audio SLP-03. Oh yeh, my Peachtree audio Nova integrated (80watts per channel) has a selectable tube buffer as part of its preamp circuitry. Some of these aren't used often. The Wright Mono 7s power a high efficiency single Fostex driver quarter length Voight Pipe design, Cain & Cain Abbeys. The Melody drives a pair of Zu Audio Essence speakers. Very cool toys! Scott
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Post by andyo on Mar 1, 2019 1:11:34 GMT -5
I recently got the new Carver Crimson 275 amp. It drives my Martin Logan Theos electrostatic speakers. Replaced the driver tubes for better quality tubes. The sound is neutral, punchy and very clean and transparent. Where did all the tube distortions go? Excellent, natural bass, sound stage to die for, much better detail resolution. It replaced my XPA-1Ls. Despite Emotiva amps having much lower distortions, they don't match the transparency and the sound presentation of the Carver amp. It is really strange.
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Post by novisnick on Mar 1, 2019 3:42:28 GMT -5
I recently got the new Carver Crimson 275 amp. It drives my Martin Logan Theos electrostatic speakers. Replaced the driver tubes for better quality tubes. The sound is neutral, punchy and very clean and transparent. Where did all the tube distortions go? Excellent, natural bass, sound stage to die for, much better detail resolution. It replaced my XPA-1Ls. Despite Emotiva amps having much lower distortions, they don't match the transparency and the sound presentation of the Carver amp. It is really strange. Thanks for your review! I was looking at those this evening and wondering how it sounded! Congratulations on a beautiful amp!
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Post by DYohn on Mar 1, 2019 9:54:41 GMT -5
I have a Shindo Cortese. No interest in cheap tube amps.
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Post by MusicHead on Mar 3, 2019 22:48:56 GMT -5
My dad also repaired electronics for a while when I was a kid. We had a large tube tester in his shop, and a bin full of literally hundreds of tubes for 1950's vintage televisions... He's probably why I love electronics... Oh Iโm sure! When we were kids it was a candy ๐ญ store if you were fascinated at all by electronics. I miss โNunzioโ. Nunzio, was that TV repair guy that came to your house with a big travel box of tubes and tools and a mirror. Of course with that mirror, he tweaked the tv ๐บ from the back while watching the mirror image. Until I got my first solid state gear, I brought my tubes to a place that had one of those testers that customers could use. Bill When I was a pre-teen in the late '70s, the summer between middle-school and high school I "worked" as an apprentice with the local TV repairman. I still remember his big, black, suitcase-sized tube carrying case. It looked like a very thick Samsonite suitcase. These days it would probably be illegal to have kids work with tubes ๐. The very first book about electronics that I read was all about tube circuits, borrowed from an older cousin. Nice memories, that's how my still ongoing love affair with electronics started.
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Post by DavidR on Mar 3, 2019 22:57:48 GMT -5
Emotiva Tubes at a VTA Bob Latino price point would be very inviting. Rather difficult to achieve perhaps! Add a little bling and they would be a good seller over the long term. Maybe limited run productions. Yes, except make it integrated and self biasing. Oh, and a great phono section.
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Post by novisnick on Mar 3, 2019 23:12:54 GMT -5
Emotiva Tubes at a VTA Bob Latino price point would be very inviting. Rather difficult to achieve perhaps! Add a little bling and they would be a good seller over the long term. Maybe limited run productions. Yes, except make it integrated and self biasing. Oh, and a great phono section. Separate phono stage and pour on the dollars if you want more! At their price point their wonderful and a bargain.
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Post by DavidR on Mar 4, 2019 0:50:21 GMT -5
Yes, except make it integrated and self biasing. Oh, and a great phono section. Separate phono stage and pour on the dollars if you want more! At their price point their wonderful and a bargain. Then a tube Pre w/ a great phono section to go with the amp.
(I know. I have one)
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Post by tropicallutefisk on Mar 4, 2019 6:56:38 GMT -5
Tubes are wonderful. Expensive to sell and not for everyone to buy. Conrad Johnson, McIntosh, and VTL, and VAC is where I got most of my experience with. Almost got some Cary Audio's guy backed out last minute. Who knew? Prima Luna is doing it well and just about the only one I could recommend to anyone because it just takes care of itself. They got this tube thing beat. Priced reasonably, relatively, and the adaptive autobias keeps the user from doing anything stupid. Loved my Prima Luna while I had it. A Prologue Two. It was just so easy to get along with. Not Solid State, but not picky annoying like some Tube gear I had. My favorite out right was a VTL Preamplifier. It was sweet. Tubes are flavor savored by not the rational, but the passionate. You both know who you are. ๐๐ How well does the Prima Luna preamp sound with Emotiva amps?
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Post by mgbpuff on Mar 4, 2019 8:06:16 GMT -5
I have a Shindo Cortese. No interest in cheap tube amps. Whenever I see a teal colored enclosure, my head snaps to attention.
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Post by bootman on Mar 4, 2019 8:36:11 GMT -5
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Post by mgbpuff on Mar 4, 2019 8:46:58 GMT -5
Oh Iโm sure! When we were kids it was a candy ๐ญ store if you were fascinated at all by electronics. I miss โNunzioโ. Nunzio, was that TV repair guy that came to your house with a big travel box of tubes and tools and a mirror. Of course with that mirror, he tweaked the tv ๐บ from the back while watching the mirror image. Until I got my first solid state gear, I brought my tubes to a place that had one of those testers that customers could use. Bill When I was a pre-teen in the late '70s, the summer between middle-school and high school I "worked" as an apprentice with the local TV repairman. I still remember his big, black, suitcase-sized tube carrying case. It looked like a very thick Samsonite suitcase. These days it would probably be illegal to have kids work with tubes ๐. The very first book about electronics that I read was all about tube circuits, borrowed from an older cousin. Nice memories, that's how my still ongoing love affair with electronics started. TV repair back in those days was little more than tube replacement. Of course, if you understood the different circuits and listened to the customer's description of symptoms, you could get the right tube on the first try. My uncle went to school in Chicago to learn TV in the 50's. He told me the first thing you do is discharge the picture tube. He made me a screw driver with a wood handle that had a piece of zip wire soldered to the shaft and an alligator clip on the other end. Attach the alligator clip to the chassis and then touch the screwdriver to the pic tube anode. What a snap! I only fixed my own tv, but I had to go to a drug store that had one of those tube testers with a common assortment of new tubes in the cabinet under it.
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Post by 405x5 on Mar 4, 2019 8:58:44 GMT -5
Oh Iโm sure! When we were kids it was a candy ๐ญ store if you were fascinated at all by electronics. I miss โNunzioโ. Nunzio, was that TV repair guy that came to your house with a big travel box of tubes and tools and a mirror. Of course with that mirror, he tweaked the tv ๐บ from the back while watching the mirror image. Until I got my first solid state gear, I brought my tubes to a place that had one of those testers that customers could use. Bill When I was a pre-teen in the late '70s, the summer between middle-school and high school I "worked" as an apprentice with the local TV repairman. I still remember his big, black, suitcase-sized tube carrying case. It looked like a very thick Samsonite suitcase. These days it would probably be illegal to have kids work with tubes ๐. The very first book about electronics that I read was all about tube circuits, borrowed from an older cousin. Nice memories, that's how my still ongoing love affair with electronics started. Yes! Sounds like we got โthe bugโ in similar fashion, except for the timeline. By the time we got into the early 70โs, tubes were a thing of the past, and totally into solid state electronic gear without ever looking back. Bill
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Post by vcautokid on Mar 4, 2019 8:59:21 GMT -5
Tubes are wonderful. Expensive to sell and not for everyone to buy. Conrad Johnson, McIntosh, and VTL, and VAC is where I got most of my experience with. Almost got some Cary Audio's guy backed out last minute. Who knew? Prima Luna is doing it well and just about the only one I could recommend to anyone because it just takes care of itself. They got this tube thing beat. Priced reasonably, relatively, and the adaptive autobias keeps the user from doing anything stupid. Loved my Prima Luna while I had it. A Prologue Two. It was just so easy to get along with. Not Solid State, but not picky annoying like some Tube gear I had. My favorite out right was a VTL Preamplifier. It was sweet. Tubes are flavor savored by not the rational, but the passionate. You both know who you are. ๐๐ How well does the Prima Luna preamp sound with Emotiva amps? It will sound fine. It gets along with any solid state or vacuum tube amplifier.
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Post by mgbpuff on Mar 4, 2019 10:03:16 GMT -5
How well does the Prima Luna preamp sound with Emotiva amps? It will sound fine. It gets along with any solid state or vacuum tube amplifier. You've tested all of these combinations?
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Post by adaboy on Mar 4, 2019 10:06:51 GMT -5
It will sound fine. It gets along with any solid state or vacuum tube amplifier. You've tested all of these combinations? You're on a tear this morning lol๐๐
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