New valve amp and speakers
I spotted these on eBay the other day, I think the distributor is having a clear out. They arrived today and I'm very pleased.
The amp is a Mistral EL34 integrated and the speakers are Mistral Bow IIIs. The amp is very nicely finished for a mid range Chinese valve amp, and pretty weighty. The speakers are 2 way with a 5.25 inch woofer but with a larger passive radiator on the back, an interesting idea and rarely used these days, though it is making a bit of a comeback now (Kef and Audio Physic to name two). The cabinets are a lovely burr finish and are shaped rather like Avalon Acoustic speakers to reduce diffraction (I think). The sloping baffle also helps with driver integration.
Initial thoughts were the speakers are a bit too lightweight and bright (coming from TDL Studio 2 transmission lines maybe not a surprise!) but I've changed the signal valves in the amp to NOS and they're sounding well balanced and quite warm now. I also switched the cables from the tweeter inputs to the bass inputs, I'm not sure how much of the improvement is due to that.
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New valve amp and speakers
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Lawrence001
Thought the treble was a little rough on some well recorded choral music so dug out some old jumpers I had, all sounding nice again [emoji16]
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Treble will be even better if you bi wire, it reduces IM distortion in the line to the tweeter by a noticeable amount. It’s all proven in this very in depth article.
https://www.qacoustics.co.uk/blog/20...tion-benefits/
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