Przem's Phase Linear 700 Series II White Oak Conversion

laatsch55 said:
Welcome to the curse of REALLY GOOD amps. Przem there are some remastered vinyl to CD recordings I just can not listen to. It has to be a shitty vinyl recording to begin with usually, but there are exceptions to that also. Some old BTO is almost unlistenable, whereas some Floyd is excellent....go figure. Try some Shpongle--"Corridor of Mirrors" there is some Dynamic range in that stuff....

The farther up the fidelity ladder you go the more critical we can be of mastering, mixdown and compresswion/expansion techniques. As little as I know about them I feel being critical of some is still OK being there have been some EXCELLENT albums and CD's released.......Allen Parsons comes to mind....Dire Straits....so what's the poorly recordings excuse??
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Slash's Snakepit - It's Five o'clock Somewhere is a prefect example of a horrible sounding CD. I played it for Debbie yesterday and could not get through two songs. Just NASTY
 
I have heard a lot of guitar guys say tube wattage is louder then SS wattage. To me, watts are watts. It's how amps are rated today that is a joke. I remember a certain SS amp I had as a young adult that was insanely loud. A Sunn Beta Lead 2x12 combo that could give a all tube Marshall Major a serious run for SPL's and still sound good. The deal is you don't have drums, bass and a vocalist adding to the mix through the same amp so of course a guitar amp sounds way louder then a stereo amp. Stereo amps have to replicate everything, not just one instrument

I agree totally with the headroom. I could be sitting here listening to something at above conversation level and yet the meters redline on some dynamic parts. That's headroom, having the power to be able to replicate a passage without clipping. WOPL's have this down pat better then any other amp I have owned and still sound pleasing. My old Mark Levinson 333 was a great amp but it sounded fatiguing after a bit of listening. Of course I never wanted to admit that... after all it was a Levinson
 
There is a certain something about a decent tube amp though. They have the magic ability to be musical without being fatiguing at all.
 
gadget73 said:
There is a certain something about a decent tube amp though. They have the magic ability to be musical without being fatiguing at all.
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I have had McIntosh hybrid and a Fisher SA1000, neither sounded as good as my WOPL. I also noticed that tube amps can sound different depending on room temperature. Don't get me wrong, nothing wrong with tube amps at all, I have just moved on to what I feel sounds best to me. For a guitar amp, it has to be tube though. I have a Peavey all tube USA made 6505 2 x 12 that roars when I need it to. I just did a complete retube on it and it sounds better then when I first got it. Bastard weighs almost 100lbs so I put casters on it LMAO!!!
 
While I enjoy audio any way you look at it I have to say I'll give a plus 1 for tubes especially coupled to a pair of belle klipsh even with max of 20 watts there is great tone and you can still shake the shingles off the roof
 
Przem....what did shipping cost to get that amp back home?
 
The Powerful Difference said:
Lee,

I know that this is an old thread. (Just doing my research/homeword prior to diving in.)

But I was looking at your wiring. ! - Nice - !

This kind of work is definitely along the lines of the performance/price Avionics + aircraft wiring harnesses I spent so much time around.

And this is what I'll be striving for on my own stuff. And, yes, it's all about the QUIET...

(Insert tip of the hat here.)
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Thanks 3D , appreciate it. FWIW Perry has taken wire discipline to a whole new level. Hopefully I can up my game...
 
Love your attitude 3D, yeah, if we all share our excellence, then it's all excellent!@
 
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