Hey!
that is my plan. get your own.
;-)
902 > snapper monos > vr4s.
in your FACE tube sound. And w/the punchyness of the Grace matched with the ballsy manley sound...
man, that is going to rock out.
OK, I'm thinking BM DAC-1 >> Mahi-Mahi or Stinger instead now.
Flat and clean DAC warmed up a bit by the "tubier" Manleys.
Smaller room sizes here, no need for bigger, higher spl speaks. Easier on the budget, too.
So far I'm liking the Soliloquy 5.3s (good call, Moke!) and am waiting to find a smaller Dynaudio tower to audition.
Snappers are supposed to be very clean and flat for tube amps.
I haven't heard them. Nor have I found a NYC area dealer with them yet....
So perhaps a question.....if a well designed tube amp never tops, is clean, and has flat response, how do you know it's a tube amp ?
When a 10wpc SE tops, the drums don't thump. Instead they sound kinda like "thah-whapth"- what I guess is a product of tube compression/ rounded-clipping.
I'm sure that I hear the tube sweetness in the midrange. Vocals, piano, and strings become holographic.
(listening to the Kentucky Colonels Apalachian Swing remastered CD actually placed them in the center of my living room)
With 100 wpc, clean as a whistle, how can you hear the tubes vs. a top-end 150watt SS amp like a Krell or Levinson?
Will I loose the spacial affects from tube distortions by going high-power/high-end ?
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