RE: "Quality over quantity"

Posted by 1973shovel (A) on September 16, 2013 at 17:51:09

In Reply to: It won't play loud, but damn, does it play good. posted by olddude55 on September 15, 2013 at 16:49:24:

Ain't that the truth?

I remember trying a couple of tube amps (Marantz 8B and Dynaco ST-70) on my Dhalquist DQ-10s back in the late 1980s. Prior to that, I had been driving them with an SAE 100 WPC amp, using an Audio Research SP3-A-1 for many years.

Dahlquist minimum recommended power was something like 50 or 60 watts, and their literature cautioned that clipping on lesser amps would burn out the tweeter.

A guy in the audio club I belonged to lent me the Marantz, and I had one of those "jaw dropping" moments. I always thought the ARC preamp, along with an amp recommended by The Absolute Sound would have been just fine. But using a low wattage tube amp sounded SO much more like music.

I've been a tube amp guy (other than my Pass First Watt F1J) ever since.

I'm happy to hear the amp is working so well, and making you so happy!

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Topic - Stoopid question I know has been asked a zillion times before... - olddude55 17:35:31 09/09/13 (19)

RE: Stoopid question I know has been asked a zillion times before... - petercapo 06:25:23 09/10/13 (18)

How about Curcio's extended storage start up procedure? - olddude55 14:55:20 09/10/13 (17)

RE: How about Curcio's extended storage start up procedure? - petercapo 15:32:26 09/10/13 (16)

RE: How about Curcio's extended storage start up procedure? - xaudiomanx 16:28:57 09/10/13 (0)

Right... - olddude55 15:36:46 09/10/13 (14)

RE: Right... - xaudiomanx 16:25:00 09/10/13 (13)

It was down for an extended time once before after I rebuilt it. - olddude55 16:43:13 09/10/13 (11)

A Variac is a great tool - 1973shovel 23:10:17 09/10/13 (8)

Great! - olddude55 14:24:50 09/11/13 (7)

Another link - 1973shovel 14:49:25 09/11/13 (6)

And to clarify again... - olddude55 15:22:28 09/11/13 (5)

RE: "Mullard GZ34 rectifier tube" - 1973shovel 05:18:10 09/12/13 (4)

Good news and bad news. - olddude55 14:38:30 09/14/13 (3)

Sounds like good news to me! - 1973shovel 13:10:28 09/15/13 (2)

It won't play loud, but damn, does it play good. - olddude55 16:49:24 09/15/13 (1)

RE: "Quality over quantity" - 1973shovel 17:51:09 09/16/13 (0)

RE: It was down for an extended time once before after I rebuilt it. - petercapo 19:23:21 09/10/13 (0)

RE: It was down for an extended time once before after I rebuilt it. - xaudiomanx 18:44:54 09/10/13 (0)

RE: Right... - petercapo 16:35:13 09/10/13 (0)

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