Recent content by Robert Elliott

Gee Mary, Perhaps it is my advanced reading skills but your point seemed obvious; Outlaw provides R&D and Eastech provides production and lowers the cost to Outlaw in exchange for the right to OEM the product to other companies. The relationship has been well understood and established for at...

Jim, The Eico is an integrated amp which provide multiple inputs. You could use a preamp but it is unnecessary. Some, however, will remove all the extraneous circuits in the amp and use a preamp. Personally, you can find the EICO monoblocks which are the power section of this amp, use a...

The EICO HF-81 is a very musical and stunningly powerful 14 watt integrated that can had for very little on E-bay. The Scott 299c is also a very good choice. Both are great vintage amps that have been touted by their owners to be noticable improvements over ASL and/or Jolida offerings. I...

Of course, many splutter at the mere suggestion tube amps sound better than SS amps. My workmates thought I lost my mind when I told them I bought a vintage tube amp. Tubes?! Are you crazy?! That's old technology, they wailed. They now wait for me to bring the amp and speakers into work so...

Hi Arthur, Thanks. Actually, you are on the right track. I bought these Heresies months before I got the tube amp. Initially, they were hooked up temporarily to the Yamaha in the front room. In addition, I listened to them on the Pioneer VSX in the other room - currently running my KG4's. The...

Saurav, I will tell you one thing about that 'best' option; I had no, absolutely no intention whatsoever of buying Heresies. A quick listen to Santana on them convinced me to buy them. A longer listen to Jewel on them convinced me they were the best speaker purchase I have ever made and had...

Hi all, I have seen the HE10.1 but not the Kosala. I am not real familiar with them at all. I have not done a great deal of experimentation with the Heresies cause they sound so good. :) I have had mine placed from 3 to 8 ft apart, from 3 inches to 3 ft. away from side walls, and 1 to 4 ft...

James, If you can spend a little more and don't mind towers, the RF3's pretty efficient. Or you can pick them up off of ebay or mail order at substantial discounts. The reference series are fantasic but they lack some of that horn character a midrange horn brings to the table - some don't...

Hi folks, Man, we may have a mass migration to tubes going on here. I got very caught up in research while trying to make a decision on whether to try tubes or not. Here is some advice for those contemplating making a go at this. With speakers much below 94 db and my liking of hard rock...

All the talk about two-channel performance over the last 6 months leads me to believe many need to try tubes for themselves. A high percentage will likely not concern themselves over the two-channel performance of SS prepros very much afterwards. There simply is no comparison - that I have...

I am not a 'tubie' and don't claim to know everything; one of those things I don't understand is 'warm' sounding. I have no idea what that means relative to audio nor do I have any clue what 'romantic' is either. I do know the music I hear through this tube amp sounds like real life - moreso...

Saurav, Listen to this story AND its all true. I had just lucked out and picked up a set of $3600 speakers for $900 and they were brand new. My wife flipped. That weekend she sent me off to do some errands. I was a little miffed and decided to go to a pawn shop. Walked in and there were the...

Wow, This thread is providing some interesting discussion; except that one post which slams my Heresies. I guess it also slams my KSP's and KG4's but that is ok, some just don't appreciate a great horn. :) Heresies rule. Aris, You could create a HT with tube amps and a separate pre/pro but...

Hi guys, Jeez, Frank gives me a link back to the Njoe Toeb after I had worked so hard to forget it. That was going to be my introduction to tubes. :) I can't spend any more money - or so my wife says. Hey John, You are one I was referring to in my original post when I mentioned tube...

Frank, Mullard 12AX7's, 12AU7's EZ81's, and EL84's. :) You aren't kidding. I am searching all over the place to find a place to test tubes, acquire tubes, etc. It is demented. I have a bad EL-84 that needs replacing and finding one or a set(Mullards) presents few opportunities unless you are...