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In Reply to: RE: The best vintage can sound very good indeed posted by E-Stat on July 20, 2016 at 15:27:20
Case in points, unfortunatly. Can't see the forest for the trees, but the inmates here have so much experience and articulate broad strokes along with detail.
An Audible Illusions SS amplifier blew me away until I switched to ESl's that demanded tubes. Tried some current tube amplfiers and ended up vintage.
Preamplifiers, cleaned, replaced, bypassed so many controls and circuits with the older stuff gravitated to newer equipment. And points well taken on the components, mainly coupling and electrolytics available today, but also faster diodes. Makes the older equipment really sing.
These are some of my experiences, so I posted to see if I have missed the boat.
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An Audible Illusions SS amplifier blew me away until I switched to ESl's that demanded tubes.
Demanded tubes? Or, anything from Nelson Pass. The 800A from 1975 easily handled the poster child for difficult reactive electrostatic loads - the Dayton-Wrights. In the 80s, Nelson used to demo his Stasis series using double Daytons. I used a Stasis 3 from 1981 until quite recently driving a range of Acoustat full range stats.
Tried some current tube amplfiers and ended up vintage.
I've used VTL monoblocks with my Sound Lab U-1PXs now for about fifteen years.
Thank-you E-Stat I will look into them. I have gone in and out of audio over the years and have missed a lot and appreciate being educated.
One thing that I should have mentioned is that I listen to lowish volume classical all of the time I am working, and I worked too much. Listening fatigue was a big factor in my tube bias.
You described to the letter my listening taste and needs.
You should look into the VTA ST-70. Perhaps the biggest bang for the audio buck in history!!!! Put a set of Gold Lion KT66's in there and your amp buying daze are over. At least that is where I am. I sure like to look. But in the end I don't have that need to keep searching or collecting.
Thank-you airtime for the recommendation. I do the same, role in and out some different amplifiers. Citation II, Quad II, 8b, even UA1's at time, system is bi-amped can get away with less power for the top end.
Did you ever end up in AZ, if so what part? E-mail if you like.
Sure did Fountain hills area
Excellent choice. We're about an hour from you. When we first moved here 35 years ago Fountain Hills looked like a great place to live, just would have been a long commute.
One thing that I should have mentioned is that I listen to lowish volume classical all of the time...
I get that. Nelson's high bias designs resolve down to the noise floor.
Thanks again, found some very good articles on-line about Nelson Pass.
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