Albert Porter's System

Herer, I think the VTL 750 can still be ordered through dealers but the factory is pushing hard for everyone to move on to the new series.A good friend and reviewer who also owns VTL 750's,...

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Albert Porter's System

Thank you Ray, lets make plans to meet each other next year and at least have dinner one night. This year a bunch of us walked over to the Mexican food place across from the hotel and filled a huge...

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Albert Porter's System

Hello Slappy, VERY happy to see you. The Megalines are working great, now crank up that Mustang and come visit me for some tunes (to verify I'm telling the truth) and I'll buy all the beer ...

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PT Listening Room

Hi Peter, looks great. If you can afford Marco for photo's you can afford to pay for me to come visit and listen :^).

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Albert Porter's System

Kuzibri, the 6550 I prefer is the SED Wing C built in St. Petersburg, Russia. Likely the Genelex or other NOS is preferable but stock and prices are impossible (especially for Genelex).The ...

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Wilson, VTL system

Good grief, your system and room are stunningly beautiful !I always wanted to hear Wilson's powered with VTL tube amps. Congratulations on all your hard work, my only advice is for you plac...

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Albert Porter's System

System edited: Added image of Purist 20th Anniversary Aqueous (last piece of equipment in my system list for those who want to view).

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Albert Porter's System

System edited: Image added of the custom tube crossover built for Dali Magaline.

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Ahhhh

So, Louis.......my ploy to gain possession of your tape library failed didn't it? Still a beautiful system.

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Albert Porter's System

Dave,The Megalines are 90 inches (7.5 feet) making them taller than your project, so I don't think your request is out of the question.The Megalines can be moved if their spike feet...

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Albert Porter's System

Zaikes, Andy answered questions about my existing tubes but did not have any 6350 RCA's to sell me. I bought mine from SND and got all he had except one (non match) single.I also ha...

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Albert Porter's System

Zaikes, I just bought 8 "hens teeth." Four matched pairs of RCA 6350's. On my present tubes, speaking with Andy at Vintage, our best guess is my black plate 6350's are USA Sylvani...

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Albert Porter's System

Kuzibri, I should've been clearer on the subject of small signal tubes for the VTL 750. There are two 6350 and a single 12AT7 per amplifier, in addition to the twelve 6550 outputs.T...

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Albert Porter's System

Kuzibri, My original set of VTL 750's have about 1100 hours on them and all the tubes still test good. VTL runs their tubes very conservatively and projects the outputs (6550 Wing C) at 3000 hours ...

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Albert Porter's System

Kelly, I think the 1520 is an extraordinary machine and handles tape better than machines costing ten times as much. It's only weakness is that it's 1980's transistor technology, limiting "ult...

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Albert Porter's System

Firecracker_77, sorry I did not respond to you earlier. Thank you for the kind words about my listening room. I have a very understanding wife, she even helped with choosing the colors of t...

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Albert Porter's System

If you guys are coming again I need to hook up the AirTights. The VTL is very upset from new Infini caps, new resistors and a rough ride here.Nate, You can't be upset with it "pouring&...

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Albert Porter's System

Update. Second pair of VTL Ref 750's arrived Friday and are breaking in. I'm holding on to my AirTight ATM-3 until enough listening time has passed for a definitive decision.My Koetsu Jade ...

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The Flemish Touch

Mattheus, cables arrived here today. Thank you for packing them well and for returning them quickly.I wish you the best in your cable pursuits !

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Albert Porter's System

Zaikes, There are likely are as many stories about the source of this material as there are tapes available. In the case of my Faron Young tape, the lady offering this was his nurse...

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Albert Porter's System

Zaikes, regarding "Hello Walls."Yea, I wish I had that song on my master safety. Wonder if it would drive the Air Tights even closer to the walls ? :^). When I bought this...

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Albert Porter's System

Lug Pat,Thank you too ! I wish you could hear the new tube crossover, it's amazing how much it improved the sound. The textures in the midrange are double what you experienced when ...

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Albert Porter's System

Phillip (Holmes that moves around :^).Thank you one million times for the absolutely awesome, creative and flattering post on my system thread. Bless you for saying such nice things !!<...

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Albert Porter's System

Well, this was a wonderful night. In spite of the worst that mother nature can dish out, Jim Aud and family arrived in Dallas safely and secured a hotel just ten minutes from me. We listened until ...

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Albert Porter's System

Nate, is that Louis's system or mine that might not sound perfect but looks good :^) ?

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