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  1. In all likelihood, no. It is very important to purchase something at a certain base level of quality. One of my local friends bought a cheap amp because he had never before seen such a good deal. He then spent another $450 trying to get the amp gremlins solved, only to find at $850 into it that he purchased a shitty $400 that sounds even worse at $850.

     

    spend some money, get into quality, and leave the learning curve for others.

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  2. John, I have tube amps and integrated tube amps across every economic spectrum for sale in the garage sale section, as Tarheel noted. You can even visit and listen to the restored ones on a pair of Heresys, or Rf7s, if you are near St. Louis.

     

    Even if you don’t buy anything, you are still welcome to listen. With the colds now over, and the ice storm gone, we again can move about in the Midwest!

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  3. Fremer is a dinosaur that serves a purpose. He deliberately charted a course that would set him against the digital age, and champion analog - specifically records.

     

    over the intervening years, it has made him a lot of money, and kept Stereophile relevant in the cause of Audiophilia at one end of the spectrum. The quest has also ensured that he would be knighted for his quixotic quest, and bestowed with numerous deep discount gears.

     

    Just as deeply vested are the digital cd crowd, and now the computer based digital consumers. I have heard systems every bit as good on the digital side as the vinyl/analog side at this point, and the digital side has the advantage of not making the room look like a tornado just passed.

     

    Like all bell cow dinosaurs, Fremer can find a hill and roar over the superiority of his viewpoint, but as the recording industry shifts almost exclusively to digital recording, his stance that analog is best becomes evermore specious.

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  4. Bump to add.

     

    Pioneer D23 (Spec series)active crossover, four way stereo, with multiple selectable slopes, selectable crossover points, and volume attenuators for all four selected ranges. One of the best and most flexible analog active crossovers ever, great cosmetics and operation. $1800

     

    filter slopes are all selectable with flat, 6, 12, and 18 dB per octave

     

    dB level pots are -infinity to 0 dB, with fine gain from -30 dB to 0 dB

     

    crossover transition points can be gang shared, woofer at 63, 80, 100, 125, 160, 200, 250, 320, 400, 500, and 630 Hz

     

    mid to tweet points are 320, 400, 500, 630, 800, 1k, 1.25k, 1.6k, 2k, 2.5k, and 3.2k

     

    this bank is duplicated as well

     

    tweet to supertweet are 1.6  2 2.5  3.2  4  5  6.3  8  10  12.5  and 16khz

     

    This crossover allows for direct drop-in use with Khorns. And use from one multichannel amp, or three, four, five or six Stereo/mono amps.

     

     

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