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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,250
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    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
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    BlueFox wrote: »
    Why would I make a video of a speaker playing? :)
    Laughed

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

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  • BackertLabs
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    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: 33,077
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    That's because everything Italian tastes and looks....and sounds great. ;)
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    Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,759
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    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: 33,077
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    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

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    Sonos zp90
    Grant Fidelity tube dac
    B&k 1420
    lsi 9's
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  • agfrost
    agfrost Posts: 2,497
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    Andy, I'm going to need some help here--I can't figure out how the tubes install...

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    Jay
    Jay
    SDA 2BTL * McCormack DNA 0.5 amp * Oppo BDP-93 * Modded Adcom GDA-600 DAC * Rythmik F8 (x2)
    Micro Seiki DQ-50 * Mitsubishi LT-30 * Hagerman Cornet 2 Phono
    Preamp rotation: Krell KSL (SCompRacer recapped) * Manley Shrimp * PS Audio 5.0
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 9,399
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    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!
    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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  • BackertLabs
    BackertLabs Posts: 117
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    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: 25,710
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    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 | Galion TS P75 Pre | Holo Audio Cyan 2 Dac | MIT Shotgun S1 | Puritan Audio PSM136 Pwr Condtioner & Classic PC's | Legend L600 | Roon Nucleus 1 w/LPS - Tubes add soul!
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 9,399
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    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: 9,103
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    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: 4,645
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    Rhumba?!? :*
    --Gary--
    Onkyo Integra M504, Bottlehead Foreplay III, Denon SACD, Thiel CS2.3, NHT VT-2, VT-3 and Evolution T6, Infinity RSIIIa, SDA1C and a few dozen other speakers around the house I change in and out.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,077
    edited October 2015
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    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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