$3K preamp giveaway

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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    Because drunk people do stupid chit. :p:p
    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    DSkip wrote: »
    megasat16 wrote: »
    BlueFox wrote: »
    I was putting 1200 watts into the S5s. They held up well for a while, but eventually broke.

    Video or it didn't happen! :smiley:

    I'm sure he has that receipt framed as a reminder. A picture might be enough proof.

    Well, not framed, but saved PDF files. The failures occurred in three incidents. The first was that night, and both the tweeter and midrange went in the right speaker. That was costly. However, all that power also weakened the left speaker. Later, the left tweeter appeared to go, and I tried replacing it to avoid boxing it up, and hauling it up the road, but the tweeter didn't fix it. Turns out it was the crossover. Magico fixed that for free. Later, the left midrange died, and I had to pay for that, but labor was free. Since then everything has been just fine. Now I am waiting for the rumored S5 v2 upgrade to use the new S7 parts.

    Incident 1:
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    Incident 2:
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    Incident 3:
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    Happy now. :)
    Lumin X1 file player, Westminster Labs interconnect cable
    Sony XA-5400ES SACD; Pass XP-22 pre; X600.5 amps
    Magico S5 MKII Mcast Rose speakers; SPOD spikes

    Shunyata Triton v3/Typhon QR on source, Denali 2000 (2) on amps
    Shunyata Sigma XLR analog ICs, Sigma speaker cables
    Shunyata Sigma HC (2), Sigma Analog, Sigma Digital, Z Anaconda (3) power cables

    Mapleshade Samson V.3 four shelf solid maple rack, Micropoint brass footers
    Three 20 amp circuits.
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  • megasat16
    megasat16 Posts: 3,521
    edited October 2015
    BlueFox wrote: »
    megasat16 wrote: »
    BlueFox wrote: »
    I was putting 1200 watts into the S5s. They held up well for a while, but eventually broke.

    Video or it didn't happen! :smiley:

    Why would I make a video of a speaker playing? :)


    I was just wondering what happened after "a while". lol

    Did it explode and SWAT teams knocked down your door after a loud boom?

    Or the pistonic explosion of the driver cones, and spiders with the burnt out voice coil shells flying in the room.

    May be nothing dramatic happened.

    You know, it's partly Pass fault since he used a very plain looking meters in those amps.

    Should NP uses these kinds of meters, you would know how many Watts you are pumping into the speakers before disaster strikes.

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    Hey Hey, I am just pulling your legs. Glad to hear you got it taken care of by Magico even though it cost a little too much!
    Trying out Different Audio Cables is a Religious Affair. You don't discuss it with anyone. :redface::biggrin:
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    The Pass amps show current, not watts. They don't move until you leave class A. Mine were bouncing like ping pong balls on the right side when the speakers went.
    Lumin X1 file player, Westminster Labs interconnect cable
    Sony XA-5400ES SACD; Pass XP-22 pre; X600.5 amps
    Magico S5 MKII Mcast Rose speakers; SPOD spikes

    Shunyata Triton v3/Typhon QR on source, Denali 2000 (2) on amps
    Shunyata Sigma XLR analog ICs, Sigma speaker cables
    Shunyata Sigma HC (2), Sigma Analog, Sigma Digital, Z Anaconda (3) power cables

    Mapleshade Samson V.3 four shelf solid maple rack, Micropoint brass footers
    Three 20 amp circuits.
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  • BackertLabs
    BackertLabs Posts: 117
    BlueFox wrote: »
    Why would I make a video of a speaker playing? :)
    Laughed

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  • BackertLabs
    BackertLabs Posts: 117
    BlueFox wrote: »
    Incident 3:
    Oh, the pain...

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  • BackertLabs
    BackertLabs Posts: 117
    marvda1 wrote: »
    what are some of the runner up suggestions?

    I won't speak for Bob Backert, but for a while I liked "Tom Tom". Being a drummer, to me it made sense as the little brother to the Rhythm. I ended up rejecting it because this pre sounds so close to our Rhythm 1.1 that a "cute little brother" name doesn't really apply. If we outsource to China to make a very inexpensive unit - not likely - I'll fight hard for Tom Tom. Also "Natural" for a while. The same for "Revolution" and I went through a brief love affair with "Polyrhythm" which got shouted down *loudly* by almost everybody, again, the drums thing maybe causing loss of perspective. I liked the similarity to Rhythm and the fact that the Rhythm uses V-Caps capacitors for the power supply, while the new unit uses *poly*propylene. There were several more passing #1 favorites and literally hundreds that were very fine names that I could have been totally happy with, things like Stratosphere, Mountain, Cadence, Soul, Samba, Vigor, Vibe, Move, yes Cello, Tempo, it goes on and on. Also many Italian words that sounded great, like Vivace.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,963
    That's because everything Italian tastes and looks....and sounds great. ;)
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    tonyb wrote: »
    That's because everything Italian tastes and looks....and sounds great. ;)

    We all know how you like your Italian sausage @tonyb

    :wink:
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,963
    EndersShadow wrote: »
    tonyb wrote: »
    That's because everything Italian tastes and looks....and sounds great. ;)

    We all know how you like your Italian sausage @tonyb

    :wink:

    Hey now, that don't sound right. LMAO
    HT SYSTEM-
    Sony 850c 4k
    Pioneer elite vhx 21
    Sony 4k BRP
    SVS SB-2000
    Polk Sig. 20's
    Polk FX500 surrounds

    Cables-
    Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
    Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
    Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
    Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable

    Kitchen

    Sonos zp90
    Grant Fidelity tube dac
    B&k 1420
    lsi 9's
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  • agfrost
    agfrost Posts: 2,428
    Andy, I'm going to need some help here--I can't figure out how the tubes install...

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    Jay
    Jay
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,497
    agfrost wrote: »
    Andy, I'm going to need some help here--I can't figure out how the tubes install...



    Jay

    Maybe you need a bigger tube? ;)

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    Nice cups!
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,416
    edited October 2015

    EndersShadow wrote: »
    tonyb wrote: »
    That's because everything Italian tastes and looks....and sounds great. ;)

    We all know how you like your Italian sausage @tonyb

    :wink:
    Tony dotnt discriminate. He likes all the sausage he can get. It's how they roll in Chitown.
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  • BackertLabs
    BackertLabs Posts: 117
    edited October 2015
    agfrost wrote: »
    Andy, I'm going to need some help here--I can't figure out how the tubes install...
    Nice!
    Uh oh.... tube lust... it's funny, I don't even like how Telefunkens sound all the time, but they just seem so COOL
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,165
    I love to say "Telefunken" my second favorite to say is "Valvo". Telefunken sound is a mixed bag for me, but early Valvo's (early D getters w/foil strip made in Hamburg) are simply sublime........when you can find them.

    H9
    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,497
    edited October 2015
    I love my Tele Fun Ken 's.

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    Salk SoundScape 8's * Audio Research Reference 3 * Bottlehead Eros Phono * Park's Audio Budgie SUT * Krell KSA-250 * Harmonic Technology Pro 9+ * Signature Series Sonore Music Server w/Deux PS * Roon * Gustard R26 DAC / Singxer SU-6 DDC * Heavy Plinth Lenco L75 Idler Drive * AA MG-1 Linear Air Bearing Arm * AT33PTG/II & Denon 103R * Richard Gray 600S * NHT B-12d subs * GIK Acoustic Treatments * Sennheiser HD650 *
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,759
    SCompRacer wrote: »
    I love my Tele Fun Ken 's.

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    I should be getting royalties, lol...
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,603
    Rhumba?!? :*
    --Gary--
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,963
    edited October 2015
    halo71 wrote: »
    Rhumba?!? :*


    I think they named it after the kids....Rhumba and Stiltskin. Which btw have a side business of spinning straw into Gold, and also how they came up with the green energy capacitors.

    .....it's a reach, I know. lol
    HT SYSTEM-
    Sony 850c 4k
    Pioneer elite vhx 21
    Sony 4k BRP
    SVS SB-2000
    Polk Sig. 20's
    Polk FX500 surrounds

    Cables-
    Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
    Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
    Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
    Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable

    Kitchen

    Sonos zp90
    Grant Fidelity tube dac
    B&k 1420
    lsi 9's
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