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In Reply to: A delightful day indeed... posted by mpathus on April 12, 2008 at 00:18:37:
mpathus,
I suppose I should have expected it, but for me this episode introduces the possibility of "vintage digital" -that there are old CD players with acceptable or even desirable sound, and all that is time passing is not also progress. And, it also demonstrates the principle that in audio, we're accecting that reproduced sound is a kind of bent simulation of the original sound and what we're doing is choosing the distortions we like better.
Yes, I find EICO to be a lot of fun- amazingly simple and with a kind of purity to the sound. The little EICO HF12A- it has a brushed silver face plate instead of the gold/brassy one and rated at 14W instead of 12. Mine has all it's original Mullard EL84s and 12AX7s. As it's so amazingly simple, I even had dreams of building a pair of HF-12 clones on one chassis. Mhardy says though the power is actually the same- EICO used a different way of measuring it to claim 2 more W's.
I've thought about getting a second HF12 and having dual mono integrated amplifiers, As it's so amazingly simple, I even had dreams of building a pair of HF-12 clones with p2p wiring and modern components, deleting the tone controls, on one chassis. However,the Scott 330 tube tuner has me so enamoured with mono, I'm thinking now of the Scott, EICO, and the Dual 1019 as a third system.
Cheers,
Bambi B
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- RE: A delightful day indeed... - Bambi B 04/12/0811:39:11 04/12/08 (1)
- Simplicity may be key... - mpathus 23:40:24 04/12/08 (0)
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