ASL Wave 8 - people still having fun with 'em? (Posted on 'Amps' but no replies yet) - PureAudio

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ASL Wave 8 - people still having fun with 'em? (Posted on 'Amps' but no replies yet)

I picked up a used pair in excellent condition, totally stock. Hooked 'em up and found 'em to sound pretty good but, as the seller described them, 'not quite for the discerning audiophile' in stock form. Easy to imagine how a little tweaking can bring incrementally large improvement. Still, for an orig price of $100 per side, a person practically forfiets their right to complain about them in any way and they are darn cute little buggers besides ; ) I've heard much worse at thrice the price.
I bought 'em to tweak and tweakable they are; the circuitry is amazingly simple. .47 Auricaps, components for Asylum-recipe power cords, new RCA inputs and speaker outputs on the way, plan to re-orient the back transformer so it isn't parallel to the front one.. In the meantime I have learned they sound a whole lot better with highly efficient speakers (well, duh! for 8wpc).
Anyone else out there still enjoying their Waves? Used to be frequent posts about people mod'ing 'em and having a blast with 'em. Still see 'em sell like hotcakes whenever a pair hits A'gon, which isn't very often. Who's still running 'em, what do you think about em' and what did you personally find to be the best tweaks and mods (I know there is a ton of posts on this in the archives but I haven't seen much new since 2002 or so)? Any particular recommended speakers to match with the little guys?

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Topic - ASL Wave 8 - people still having fun with 'em? (Posted on 'Amps' but no replies yet) - PureAudio 05:18:49 01/26/04 (5)

Re: ASL Wave 8 - people still having fun with 'em? (Posted on 'Amps' but no replies yet) - jdh 08:31:22 01/26/04 (4)

Re: ASL Wave 8 - people still having fun with 'em? (Posted on 'Amps' but no replies yet) - Audiopro 09:19:17 01/26/04 (3)

Maybe I'll skip the trannie re-orientation based on feedback I've been getting. I considered ... - PureAudio 10:39:36 01/26/04 (0)

Re: ASL Wave 8 - people still having fun with 'em? (Posted on 'Amps' but no replies yet) - jdh 09:44:21 01/26/04 (1)

Re: ASL Wave 8 - people still having fun with 'em? (Posted on 'Amps' but no replies yet) - Audiopro 11:05:41 01/26/04 (0)

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