Re: Anyone have a tube stereo????

In article <qLvPk.4668$kd5.241@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Michael Joyce" <michaeljjoyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I walked into a local hi end audio shop and listened to an impressive array
of macintosh tube amps into huge speakers[ like a $50000 system] ....and
what I heard didn't seem to really impress me.... so I have a new Harmon
Kardon reciever ..transistor ...that I actually took out of a recycling
trailer......looked too good to have it thrown away and it works just fine
thank you....anyway back to the heading

does anyone have a tube audio system and what are your findings about
hifidelity????

I have been eye balling some integrated amps on ebay which are from hong
kong and china and I have been lokking at diy kinda systems but is it worth
it???

I have a pair of McIntosh MC30s and I have to say, they sound pretty
nice. Tubes are often associated with a euphonic distortion, but the
truth is that they can be as clean or cleaner than transistors.

Still, hifi is pretty damn good these days. We don't have to struggle to
get fidelity the way we did 40 years and more ago.

Edwin
--
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your
enemies.
-Moshe Dayan

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