Valve addiction

[goraman]

My name is Jeff and I am a tube-A-holic.
I have been buying vintage valves lately Ei,Tung sol,RCA and Western Electric.
This hobbie is becoming addicting.
Anyone else scouring for tubes like crazy?

[Beechwoods]

I'm Nick and I'm a music-aholic. I find myself buying the same tracks in as many formats as I can. Eight Tracks give me the biggest hangover!

[Wakefield Turntables]

My name is Andrew - I'm a techie 1210 aholic. I'm addicted to tweeking and coming with stupid ideas on how to upgrade my system (i'm on medication for this). :(

[hifi_dave]

http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t406/hifi_dave/007-3.jpg


I'm just a holic..:doh:

[SPS]

wish it was just a passing phase with me... i remember about 15 years ago being told that tube collectors exist... i though thats a strange one...

then i bought my 1st box of old valves...

got quite a few now....

now there are the speaker drivers, the turntables, the transformers, old valve amps, etc etc.

[Ali Tait]

etc etc etc etc etc etc :lol:

[magiccarpetride]

My name is Jeff and I am a tube-A-holic.
I have been buying vintage valves lately Ei,Tung sol,RCA and Western Electric.
This hobbie is becoming addicting.
Anyone else scouring for tubes like crazy?

My name is Alex and I'm a placementholic. I can't seem to be able to stop messing with my speaker placement. Toe in some more, toe in some less, away from the walls, closer to the walls, tweeters on the inside, tweeters on the outside, the 'chopstick' position... and on and on and on...

[Stratmangler]

My name is Alex and I'm a placementholic. I can't seem to be able to stop messing with my speaker placement. Toe in some more, toe in some less, away from the walls, closer to the walls, tweeters on the inside, tweeters on the outside, the 'chopstick' position... and on and on and on...

Get some decent speakers and you'll find that you're miraculously cured ;)

My faves are currently these http://theartofsound.net/forum/showpost.php?p=302644&postcount=39, although I'm still running these ....

http://www.audio-talk.co.uk/images/colin/P2010255.JPG

along with these

http://www.audio-talk.co.uk/colin/FRUGALST01.JPG

[Dominic Harper]

Hi I'm Natalie, Dom's partner from Northwest Analogue and I think I have become a cartridge aholic. I didn't know the first thing about hifi until I met Dom and now I can tell the difference between a Koetsu and a Lyra. But I am becoming more and more interested in valves. Our valves at the moment are 6CA7s, although I have heard some 300B's and they sounded very nice indeed. have also listened to some 845's but I wasn't keen, but I guess it is whatever suits your hearing imho.

Natalie;)

[Stratmangler]

Hi I'm Natalie, Dom's partner from Northwest Analogue and I think I have become a cartridge aholic. I didn't know the first thing about hifi until I met Dom and now I can tell the difference between a Koetsu and a Lyra. But I am becoming more and more interested in valves. Our valves at the moment are 6CA7s, although I have heard some 300B's and they sounded very nice indeed. have also listened to some 845's but I wasn't keen, but I guess it is whatever suits your hearing imho.

Natalie;)

You and Dom should come over to the next Owsten meet - 26th & 27th May.
Meet a really nice bunch of people who make a lot of their own gear and get some pretty amazing sounds out it.

[Dominic Harper]

Hi Chris, if that is invite count us in just pm us the details and we will be their. Thanks for letting us know. Owsten is that Bolton?

Natalie;)

[Stratmangler]

Hi Chris, if that is invite count us in just pm us the details and we will be their. Thanks for letting us know. Owsten is that Bolton?

Natalie;)

There's a thread about it here http://www.audio-talk.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3972
Owsten is just North of Doncaster.

[The Grand Wazoo]

My name is Alex and I'm a placementholic.

I'm Chris and I'm intrigued as to exactly where Alex likes to place his menthol.

[magiccarpetride]

I'm Chris and I'm intrigued as to exactly where Alex likes to place his menthol.

:stalks::steam:

[magiccarpetride]

Get some decent speakers and you'll find that you're miraculously cured ;)

Thanks for the suggestions. That would be such a relief if there exist speakers who are immune to the room placement. But the question is -- at what cost?

[goraman]

Thanks for the suggestions. That would be such a relief if there exist speakers who are immune to the room placement. But the question is -- at what cost?


Alex,
Just put these out 4 feet from a rear wall and be done.
I know you like Maggies and I have heard plenty of those but these are way more revealing and have a sence of space and Dynamics you can not believe and they do bass like no other stat. I once heard a pair of 945's in a treated room with a cork floor and I shit you not it was unbelievable and unnervingly realistic. http://www.soundlab-speakers.com/majestic.htm

[magiccarpetride]

Alex,
Just put these out 4 feet from a rear wall and be done.
I know you like Maggies and I have heard plenty of those but these are way more revealing and have a sence of space and Dynamics you can not believe and they do bass like no other stat. I once heard a pair of 945's in a treated room with a cork floor and I shit you not it was unbelievable and unnervingly realistic. http://www.soundlab-speakers.com/majestic.htm

If the government doesn't send me a box of frogs as an income tax refund this year, I'll be buying those!