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In Reply to: RE: Lowther Speakers posted by nchristmann on March 05, 2014 at 09:57:11
The Klipsch Heresy III's are quite good..99db. So are Cornwalls but they are much larger. I have receded in audio gear and now drive Heresy III's with 5 and 10 watt single ended pentode amps. Try to listen to them...with tubes. :-)
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You really seemed to like the speakers from Holland with the French Drivers (Not my cup of tea).... So what happened to them?
I have been running Altec speakers, but I replaced the Bass Bins with Khorn Bass Bins and added a Khorn Tweeter and custom Crossover. I have lived pretty happily for about 8 years now. Bi-amping with SET amps (45s) and Class 'D' chip amps on the Bass Bins.
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CT,
I just got tired of the chase. The Auris were the best speakers I ever had. They took a long time to settle in. Sold them to a guy in Seattle. One of his cats tipped one over and he sold them. Saw the ad on agon.
This will make you cringe. My main source is an I-Pod with a Pure Audio dock and I use MOG. MOG has the best bit rate. I am going to put my CD's on a server. I'm actually enjoying music again.
Les
Not really MOG is great!...Except MOG is going away next month. So, I switched to Spotify. Spotify has the same bitrate as MOG 320 kbps. I use a Squeezebox touch and a guy on the SB Touch forums came up with a Plugging for Spotify that is very MOG like I have not loaded a CD for 2 years now.
Once I got into Horn Speakers and Compression Drivers, I never looked back.
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Who is taking over MOG?
I like horns too and the Heresy III's are excellent small speakers and I don't have room for Altec's etc.
beats audio bought MOG - They are shutting it down in April, 2014 . I and other sqeezebox touch users have already cancelled their mog subscriptions.
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I read about the Beats deal but did not know they are shutting it down.
Read all about it.
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Looks like I will be moving to Spotify. Same bitrate as MOG, just a bit more $$$. Personally, I believe this is the future of music. I'd like to see better quality but what is available is not bad.
I bought a Decware Mini Torii, a 5 watt single ended 6V6 integrated amp. It's excellent, has an amazing treble cut circuit that really eliminates digital trash. It has preamp out jacks so the teble cut can be used with any amp. Like your Tektons, this is one piece of gear that is permanent.
Hey SETdude,
Don't know if you've had much of a chance to do any 6V6 rolling, but I owned an Audio Note Kit 4 for about 10 years. This little 10 watt push-pull amp used a pair of 6V6's per side, and I had tried countless different variations of this tube over the years trying to get the best performance.
The Fivre 6V6 was my favorite, followed by the Sylvania VT107, and then some old Mazda's. GE's and RCA's were good, just not quite as good as the ones I mentioned.
Since your amp is different you would probably get different results than I did, but these few I listed would be good starting points if you are looking to do some experimenting.
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