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Ittaku

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  1. Haven't checked in in a while. Did my usual valve testing a couple of months ago, replaced a couple of 6550 driver tubes and two KT150s, and ordered another 8 matched for future. Otherwise just listening with the system unchanged.
  2. That's my famous "dunny test". If it still sounds real in the dunny, you're onto something... Though stage in another room is something even the real world would have trouble with
  3. Say something nice, only to then say something disparaging. How mean. Bitcoin (only, not "crypto") developer for a very long time. But I would have bought the MBLs regardless at some stage as they're worth it. Their stage is unparalleled in friendliness for allowing a huge listening area to share amongst friends. I work at my desk offset from the sweet spot too so it's perfectly fine there.
  4. Different amps have different earthing strategies, some to ground and some have a floating ground. You could easily blow something up.
  5. I don't know. The amp obviously has its own volume control and remote control, no idea what apple tv does with its hdmi output, whether it controls it at the source or controls the amp downstream.
  6. The "control any speaker you threw at it" is standard review nonsense. They're low current amps. The Gryphon would equal the balls of the Vitus, but I feel the Vitus pips it for delicacy and natural sound. You can easily find a digital extractor box from HDMI to SPDIF and plug it into an optical input on your DAC, or optionally add the DAC to the Vitus and plug it into that (I can't attest to what the DAC sounds like, I've only listened to the amplification itself.) Such converters are less than $50 usually. That's usually ample for TV playback quality.
  7. The ARC 160S/Ms are great sounding amps but your speakers are rather inefficient and they wouldn't be ideal for it. I'd suggest a Vitus amp such as this instead: https://www.classaaudio.com.au/integrated-amplifier/1826-vitus-audio-ri-101-mk2-integrated-amplifier.html Then you won't need a preamp either. It would also do a speaker upgrade justice too, if you wish to do that in future.
  8. Excellent, I'm sure you'll be well set for many years to come. Enjoy!
  9. Where's the room treatment? Must have sounded like crap. Yes this is sarcasm.
  10. I tend towards the belief that XXX has much less effect on the sonic performance from the YYY, than many believe. A great template for anything in hifi.
  11. You won't find an integrated that comes remotely close to that power amp. Make him a reasonable offer if it's just out of reach, the ad only just went up. Full disclosure: I have no relationship whatsoever with the seller nor the manufacturer, but I do own a pair of the monoblock versions of those amps.
  12. The power amp I linked is over 400W into 4 ohms and 25A current. There is no way midfi brands will even be a pale imitation of the sound that thing produces. (I'm not saying power is everything, but almost all speakers are underpowered in the field.) You cannot have too much power.
  13. I'd highly recommend this power amp that just came up for sale.
  14. I was not disparaging your setup at all. My point was it's never the equipment on its own responsible. At least let me take some credit for the sound and not put it all down to $$$
  15. Sadly I've heard every component in my system sound bad in one setting or another, and systems costing 3x as much as mine also sounding bad, so I wouldn't be so sure.
  16. I've measured the living bejeezus out of my system and have hundreds of files of the incremental changes to the DSP over the years with said measurements and I'd have to say I'm pretty happy to report I'm rather happy with the final result. Pretty sure others don't mind the sound of my system in spite of being so heavily measurement focused.
  17. Should not have any audible impact whatsoever for the frequencies subwoofers do. It's purely a design decision by the manufacturer.
  18. You were blown away by the sound of your current speakers in a different system. I suggest borrowing a higher power and higher current amplifier first before switching speakers.
  19. That's the dirty secret - all speakers like more power and/or current.
  20. Also truly perfect square waves don't exist in the real world. They're impossible due to requiring an infinite number of stacked waveforms.
  21. Since this isn't about a forum member, I don't need to hesitate. Yes he probably is. More money does not make you any more informed than the next person, and no less prone to marketing.
  22. True that, and in fact that may just be what our opening poster is looking for - a hybrid design with some valve romance injected on the input stage and a solid state output stage.
  23. Rel were one of the earliest players on the scene with making subwoofers for high fidelity in an era before multiple line preouts were doable, and they adopted the high level signal approach to make things amenable way back then. Things have long since changed but rel have remained traditional in this regard to this date, insisting it's actually better when there are powerful reasons line level would make a lot more sense, crossover or not. Either way their marketing to persist with their ancient approach appears to continue being very effective to this date.
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