The flip side of the coin is 300B, 45, 2A3 etc are artificial and untrue to the source. Not that you can't like them. But they are creating sounds that are not how the mastering engineer intended for the music to be heard.
I fooled around with it for 2 years or so, arguably one of the best tube amp manufacturers in the bizz
On 2 or 3 different speaker rmodels and many many tubes .
The amp could drive this model perfectly .
For the bigger XPE model it was not sufficient .
It wasnt bad it only lacked a bit bass controll.
As you can see i had enough SS amps laying around for power comparison.
Krell mono s and Boulder
I fooled around with it for 2 years or so, arguably one of the best tube amp manufacturers in the bizz
On 2 or 3 different speaker rmodels and many many tubes .
The amp could drive this model perfectly .
For the bigger XPE model it was not sufficient .
It wasnt bad it only lacked a bit bass controll.
As you can see i had enough SS amps laying around for power comparison.
The flip side of the coin is 300B, 45, 2A3 etc are artificial and untrue to the source. Not that you can't like them. But they are creating sounds that are not how the mastering engineer intended for the music to be heard.
I fooled around with it for 2 years or so, arguably one of the best tube amp manufacturers in the bizz
On 2 or 3 different speaker rmodels and many many tubes .
The amp could drive this model perfectly .
For the bigger XPE model it was not sufficient .
It wasnt bad it only lacked a bit bass controll.
As you can see i had enough SS amps laying around for power comparison.
you don't need a lot of money to snoop around the set amp life. the audionote kits are good. a couple of 300b tj globshape(500€) driver tubes 150€ and rectifier 5u4g svetlana 30€.for 5k€ new you get a phantastic sound gurantee
A friend wants to sell me a WE clone by Deja Vu. Suppose to be old Chicago Electric iron. A 300B PP. Be says its the best he heard. Its only $6k with 4.x Elrog 300B. I'm interested, but I'm so tired of getting something I never heard, then feeling I threw away money.
I am skeptical about it being a WE circuit. I have heard several Deja Vu 300B amps and they all used more modern circuitry with 6sn7 input and driver stages.
you don't need a lot of money to snoop around the set amp life. the audionote kits are good. a couple of 300b tj globshape(500€) driver tubes 150€ and rectifier 5u4g svetlana 30€.for 5k€ new you get a phantastic sound gurantee
he has never heard much SETs and horns but wants a participation trophy. He has heard at a show the Volti with Silvercore 833c, Peter’s system, and a duo probably.
he has never heard much SETs and horns but wants a participation trophy. He has heard at a show the Volti with Silvercore 833c, Peter’s system, and a duo probably.
Whammerdyne 2A3. Forgot the speakers, a fully custom 45 on horns. Airtight 300B on DeVore. Altecs 1569 on horns.
The Found Music is along the lines of any of theae. But it was a lot more. It semed to have more drive and percussion. More inner detail. I was very pleased by the 300B and 45 I heard. Very nice and my flavor. On the 45 we were listening to a lot of Punk. So its hard to say inner detail. But the speed, pop and grit was all there. The 300B more jazz/singer type music. Neither made me say I have to have it. But I would happily enjoy them.
Jazdocs system I heard years ago was a benchmark. And like I said earlier, I thought it was the speaker that made it. I was somewhat wrong. Its a good speaker, but what drew me to it was the amp. Or so I know now. He has a Blade also. In my system with the Blade I can hear the push of the sax players breath. Details so far beyond anything I have heard ouside Mike L and Jazdocs place. I thought my system with the Blade was one of the best systems I ever heard. Especially for my taste. I'm sorry but my Dartzeel is nothing like it. Not with my speaker. I hear beautiful sax notes. But I don't hear the performers breath in their chest and lips touching the instrument. I have never heard that on any other system outside Mike and Jazdocs.
Someone who likes Dagostino/Wilson/Magico/Boulder would probably find it not their taste. But I bet they would go home and put on the same album and wonder why they can't hear some things they heard with mine. What I don't hear out of mine those Dag/Boulder type systems bring is visceral punch and thrust. And a sort of inky black background.
I'm just saying, if you want to crap on a KT88, whick I perceive you doing when you say its not musical, then you have not heard one applied well. If an opinion of a KT88 is based upon a VAC, BAT, Audio Research CJ then you are judging on a limiting set of experiences. And you also have to be clear on what you call "Musical". I am not sure that detail and close to live is actual "Musical" Its detailed and sounds close to the actual event. But someone might say thats not musical. Musical might mean full of bloom and liquid smooth. Neither would be incorrect when applying the definition to the word.