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In Reply to: Oh. Thanks. (NT) posted by Kal Rubinson on April 30, 2007 at 18:37:24:
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since I am primarily concerned with classical music, I have been warned off. (Not that I needed to be. Cannot imagine a bass fiddle sound coming from that reed.)
fun with economical gear. I've never dealt with those speakers, but friends and I have had plenty of audio adventures with the t-amp, budget CDP players and other speakers, and we cheerfully made lots of (embellished) claims about the results.....to oursevles at least.
I am dealing with my prejudice and that is bad. I am not a fan of single driver speakers, I think of the maybe 20 pairs I have gotten a good listen to, maybe one pair were in the listenable range. Then the T-amps just don't do it for me, I've heard maybe three of them and they alway end up in the "wow, they are great for the money, much better than that Aiwa boom box." So shoot me, I am applying experincial prejudice to something I shouldn't knock until I hear it.I liked the pictures, looked like a nice listening room but the guitar would have to go.
I'm with you on the single driver thing, but I suspect that has more to do with the fact that I've only heard them at shows, and because the manufacturers seem to be like most of the others when it comes to pulling product out that has zero hours to show to the public.My experiences with the t-amp have all been quite positive. They can't compete with $3,000 amps, but they sure as heck give you some new options for second systems.
I'll pass on shooting you. I'm going to try those speaker cables they were talking about instead. ;~)
They're quite good, and the whole system is very, very musical. I won't
comment on specific price comparisons other than to say I've heard much
worse systems at the $20k level. He's spot on about the cabling ... I
started using some about a week before him; hasn't left my system since.
æNormal is just a setting on my dryer.
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and speaker cables too? I might just give that a shot.Since your name was included in the write-up, I was curious about what you might have to say. It doesn't take much to convince me that the system produced surprisingly good results, thanks to my own experiences.
BTW, as long as you are having fun with budget gear, give Jolida's 35 wpc integrated (with tube front and MOSFET outs) a shot if you even have a chance. It is surprising what $350 +/- can buy these days. I was as surprised by that as I was the first time I heard the t-amp.....and that was awfully damned surprised.
Not yet. I want to get a bit more time with the cables alone first, so I can
have a handle on things before we pop them in. Since I took my already-
broken-in speaker cables over to Jeff's to get him interested, I'm hoping
he'll bring his already-built-up ICs over this weekend for a listen in my rig.
I can build a few sets within an hour if I like what they do.
æNormal is just a setting on my dryer.
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for a fresh-off-the-workbench DIY cable to sound that good. I will give it a try this weekend.
The Yard Master Patio Cord (40 feet in length) cost me less than $8 and the DIY speaker cables took me less than 15 minutes to make. They replaced the pure solid silver wires in my system, and up to this day I am still amazed by how cheap but how well they work.
I'm still using the Home Depot 14 gauge outdoor extension cord (first noted by Paul Seydor in The Absolute Sound) as speaker cables despite their practically giveaway price. I imagine the ones from WalMart are equally okay.
I have not tried the HD-14 cables yet, since I didn't think they would work as optimally in Lowther-based system as good silver wires based on prior experience. And, that's exactly what surprised me in this case. They make the slightly steely-sounding AVVT2A3 solid-plates (closeted for years) more musical and listenable, while still working well when my preferred meshplates are in use. I may be just plain lucky that they match well, so given more break-in time I will try them with different amps to see how they fair. Hey, I will have nothing to lose since they cost almost nothing. A big thank to Jeff for mentioning that in review.
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