The Sound Lab U-1s sounded a bunch better at Brian's place than at the meeting as there was such a small sweet spot in that meeting room.....I traded Dr. West a preamp for a set of the M-1s.....
I have record storage down both walls of the listening room across from each other, about 7' high by 8' wide, one on each side.....Keep duplicates under the record cleaner and have more storage in the dining room.....
I think the last tube unit Curl designed was a crossover for Rockport a few years back....I haven't worked with tubes for well over a decade and would sure have to do a bunch of research into coupling capacitors.....Thompson has done some layouts for a manufacturer of a 300B amp and understand that really worked out well, but can't recall the brand name.......It is more challenging to make solid state gear perform IMHO than tubes and we have been concentrating on building the best we can do in solid state for the past few years....The Blowtorch line amp was modelled after the transconductance amplifier that Art Ferris (Audible Illusions) came up with a decade or more ago, but done in fets in lieu of tubes with no coupling caps or global feedback.....Nothing like triodes out there in the dead midrange and we might get there one day with a solid state amplifier as getting closer each time we build one....Think we are there with our preamp and we'll see how the reviews come back on the new JC-1 we designed for Parasound....I think it will take a four pole amp with choke input supply to rival the best tubed units and would love to build one, but the costs would be awfully high.....Parasound footed the bill and set parameters on the JC-1 and it would be nice to have another brave soul foot the bill on the four pole amp......
I don't have a clue how to post pictures here and am computer illiterate as well, but you can see some pitures I took of the system under inmate picture gallery on audio asylum under rcrump....Pictures or Stan & Freddy, my identical 17 year old cats (Freddy is almost twice as identical as Stan) in and around the listening room here.......I need a decent reference for my work in voicing gear and wires and the system fills the bill....I was broke for a year buying the table and then the speakers a year later back when TG Audio was merely a hobby business a decade ago as sure couldn't afford these pieces now....Could not list the Vendetta phono stage as not even a category for phono stages and audiogon misspelled Syzygy as well....
