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Originally posted by Fred Bloggs View PostNo bloo toof though?
And a preamp if you want to listen to anything other than hiss.
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostThen again, one may purchase new Quad 11 monoblock power amps, a faithful repro of 1950s excellence.
A mere £2k for the pair should Sir be interested in that new fangled "stereo" nonsense.
That's for 2 x 15W.
One may opt for 2 x 80W but at significantly higher cost.
QII-Classic - Hi-Fi Corner - HiFi Corner
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Then again, one may purchase new Quad 11 monoblock power amps, a faithful repro of 1950s excellence.
A mere £2k for the pair should Sir be interested in that new fangled "stereo" nonsense.
That's for 2 x 15W.
One may opt for 2 x 80W but at significantly higher cost.
QII-Classic - Hi-Fi Corner - HiFi Corner
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostNot bluetooth, but real...
Icon Audio MP 3 | Icon Audio
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostYes it's a "valve" amp, but if you look carefully you don't get 50W / channel out of those little valves, not for £109.
It's a bog standard transistor amp with a couple of valves acting as cathode followers between the source and the transistors.
For that genuine "valve" sound.
Mostly due to microphony at a bet.
In the words of the immortal W.C. Fields and P.T. Barnum "never give a sucker an even break" and "this way to see the egress".
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Originally posted by Fred Bloggs View PostMy word, there is a whole new world out there I never knew existed. 108 quid for a valve amp? Like the idea of the Nobsound amp on the same page though
It's a bog standard transistor amp with a couple of valves acting as cathode followers between the source and the transistors.
For that genuine "valve" sound.
Mostly due to microphony at a bet.
In the words of the immortal W.C. Fields and P.T. Barnum "never give a sucker an even break" and "this way to see the egress".
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostI wonder how many valves it would take to make a Bluetooth transceiver.
Then there's this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Intimidatio.../dp/B01MAZGW4Q
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I wonder how many valves it would take to make a Bluetooth transceiver.
Then there's this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Intimidatio.../dp/B01MAZGW4Q
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Originally posted by BR14 View Postor one of these? - Quad have been top stuff for as long as i've been playing/listening to music.
Quad VA-One Integrated Valve Amplifier at Audio Affair
Check out all of the hifi shops in Basel and have a listen to a few, take a song you like with a good wide range, and ask them to play through equivalent quality speakers to yours.
you'll pay a bit more, but it's worth it!
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Originally posted by BR14 View Postor one of these? - Quad have been top stuff for as long as i've been playing/listening to music.
Quad VA-One Integrated Valve Amplifier at Audio Affair
Check out all of the hifi shops in Basel and have a listen to a few, take a song you like with a good wide range, and ask them to play through equivalent quality speakers to yours.
you'll pay a bit more, but it's worth it!
I suppose the cost of the latter would be unsupportable these days.
I remember the time when you could pick up (not literally, they're fecking heavy) a Quad 22 + 202 for peanuts.
Ah, dear dead days beyond recall.
Who'd have thunk it.
https://www.rewindmuseum.com/valveamplifier.htm
All completely irrelevant to the original question as is customary on CUK.
Rather curiously, during my extensive research last week into the ins & outs of acoustic gramophones, I discovered that the air itself causes distortion of the sound waveform due to the speed of sound being higher in the compression phase than it is in the expansion phase.
Not a lot of people know that.
Don't mention it to The Golden Eared or they'll get all upset.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 15 April 2018, 07:46.
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It's fine. It has good response over all the frequencies I'm still able to hear.
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostI like good sound reproduction, but I'm not an expert and I'm not obsessive.
In the end I got the Onkyo RN855 - hi-fi separate streamer. We need the other amp in the cellar for home cinema. My daughter likes the fact that if she wants to listen to her heavy metal in the morning and doesn't want to get out of bed, she can just switch it on and start streaming - and turn the volume up so she can hear in her room - using her phone...
On my list for consideration, although my trusty Yamaha AV needs replacing too (soo old it doesn't have HDMI, although still a great amp) so may well have a look at the AV options which also support streaming.
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Originally posted by jamesbrown View PostAnd for the rest of us, that sounds like an exceptionally good reason to not purchase the Onkyo RN855.
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