Date:         Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:25:12 -0700
Reply-To:     Al Knoll <al_knoll@PACBELL.NET>
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From:         Al Knoll <al_knoll@PACBELL.NET>
Subject:      Re: tube amp in a vanagon
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Mikey, your grey is showing...but how true.  I sold a matched set of four
Gold Lion KT-88s for far more than the list would believe.  Sold three RCA
not matched for 250$ long ago.

Sold the Criterion III amps wired mono for $1000 with fresh tubes and caps
because (rvc) they wouldn't fit in the vanagon.

With my advanced hearing, screams, whines and anything above 16khz falls on
deaf ears so to speak.

Before I would spend a nickel on new audio stuff, I'd spend a dollar on the
acoustic environment into which it might be placed.

Of course if your preferences tend towards 145db WompWomp interspersed with
barely intelligible ethnic rapple, any system will do.  However for vintage
Solti and Chicago, a slightly more refined system might be necessary.  I
might recommend the Blau Los Angeles with an MPD01 and 4gb with your choice
of amplifier and "real" speakers, not something that you put in a hole in
the door.

But then I'd have to silence the whole audio space and do a spark analysis
to tune the remaining and frankly I'd rather fish.