123c's Audio System Thread

[Kuan]

Originally Posted by cscmc1

Kuan -- have you listened to a SET amp? Awesome! If you don't want to mess with tubes (300B, 2A3, etc...) try one of the Pass MiniAleph amps. I have one that I sometimes run with the Fostex fullrange kit from Madisound, and it's great. If you want to spend a few bucks, try a Lowther setup, or build a Hedlund horn. Fun stuff!

Oh crap of course I've listened to them. I love 300B amps and high efficiency horns. But I also love the coherence and imaging of planar speakers! If I had two big rooms I'd have two setups, but I don't even have a listening room anymore.

[cscmc1]

Originally Posted by Kuan

Oh crap of course I've listened to them. I love 300B amps and high efficiency horns. But I also love the coherence and imaging of planar speakers! If I had two big rooms I'd have two setups, but I don't even have a listening room anymore.

I hear you. I have been quietly trolling for another pair of planars myself, but my wife will kill me if I drag another set of speakers home. I suppose I have about ten pair around the house at the moment. Ideally I'd have a large enough listening room to have SET/horns *and* solid state/planars, each system on casters or on opposite walls to listen to different types of music on. Newer acoustic or jazz sounds great on planars, but the older recordings (esp. on vinyl) just SING through the horns. I suppose that makes sense as the old ones were probably mastered on Altec or RCA monitors!