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This is a simple one .. Think of a 2 x EL34s per side amplifier, 4 EL34 design Can you name the amps in which you can remove one valve from the pair in each side, do this in both sides, thus, leaving only 1 valve from the pair in each side, while having still the same output / magic, albeit...

Hi everyone I've been thinking about this .. If there are 2 scenarios : 1. PP Pentode / 2 valves per channel 2. SET or single strapped triode per channel : can we say that there may be some timing issues, however small, when we consider the phase inverter and all after it - the end stage in...

Guys, I never knew the wonders Genesis kept as B sides until yesterday .. It is unreal they never did an album with those .. I dug them up and did my own sequencing of some 9 compositions - from Youtube and processed to flacs, it's an album on its own 100%, and what an album !!! To mention but...

Hi guys, Anyone having / loving those, especially their current and available line ?? Any comments, praises and warnings - i understand they are horns and very little power is needed to get them alive.. If i am to upgrade my current main system with a currently available speaker, which has to...

Anyone wants to know why ? Anyone ?

I am talking here about the AC fuses in the amplification, have been reading quite a bit over the years after finding "small", yet audible benefits of bypassing same, or upgrading them with special fuses (and subsequently blowing 2, ?$120 in total wallet damage ..) i have come to the following...

Being eaten alive with suspicion that a particular quad in one of my amp (which is nothing short of stunning) - a KT90 quad is however responsible for the ever so gentle roll-off in the highs - shorter cymbals, with slightly quicker decay, and less air. Came across this ...

I just wanted to test the grounds before i blast it in the sales section : A ESL57s pair in perfect condition referbed by Wayne Picquet, liftet by me on kiaat stands - pat of the actual bodies / sides - will anyone be really interested if the price is in the middle 10Ks ?? I'm unwilling to part...

Tonight i fixed something stupid i did at the time and with which i've lived for a while - the connecting of the Mini to a power conditioner .. After few hours of critical comparison this evening i'm disconnecting permanently the Mini from the (quite expensive) conditioner ! What i get by having...

Here we go again, for which i .. apologize There are few things in life which move me - the New Exclame is one of those things .. Below, and only if you like porn - few images from day 1 of my new Exclame 150 (SE) which fills my heart and soul with Joy .. the same way the 1.0 Ex 100 did .. The...

Being mesmerized by Amarra 4, i wanted to find out if its me only or anyone else is having this .. sort of revelation coming from any and all other players ? Setup aside, i have so much analogue sound now that any further upgrades are seriously questioned .. Looking forward to your views on...

http://www.etheraudio.net/ Something different from Eastern Europe this time ..

I just had to do this, sorry .. An Integrated E, locally produced with the following : 1. 150W or around - one ECC88 per channel 2. Dual Mono as in the Predator 3. All signal path caps - something non-exotic but non-electroytic, lets set on Auricaps 4. No AC fuse, period 5. Very solid core...

Anyone excited about this ? Anyone here finding that a bunch of new bands just put to shame the greats of yesteryear ?? Anyone excited with neo prog rock, one name - Steven Wilson and his own work and bands - one very small example ? I need to meet FINALLY a man or a woman in SA who (NB not...

3 scenarios if you please : you have only R100K, only.. What will you go for IF you already have the best source out there, whatever it may be - analogue, FLAC-DACs, whatever - below is strictly past source and its cabling : 1. 75 - 80% for the amplification stage and ICs, rest for speakers and...

OK, this has been in my mind for a while, and its' not an easy one - could cause a potential upset here - it is very simple though .. Can you think of some 10 albums or artists (if you want name more), which you would not mind listening on a much lower setup, as long as they are there, in your...

Too lazy to search now - this may be available somewhere on google and here, sorry - can someone plspoint me at top / serious high-end DACS built around the ECC88 ?? Must not cost an arm and a leg, can be local, and a single ECC88 is preferable. Thank you !

Decided to keep the Exclame powered "all the time", well until i listen to it everyday, and if not on a trip somewhere - powered day and night, and after i put this little dissipator as in image below, and noted that the electrolytics are far from getting warm if on and not playing .. Anyone...

A very interesting blog : http://toxinews.blogspot.com/2012/05/dr-hendrik-van-der-bijl-man-who-built.html And this : http://trevorlloydwadley.com/ And then this : http://public.fotki.com/pikeimages/tteq1010/img-1099.html

In the absence of MKIII, this is what is going to happen here, one change at a time, sitting and listening after each change, as now, and hopefully - elevating this tiny bit to a Black Widow (not that it is not gorgeous now!) or whatever that stays in your memory. In no particular order and with...