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In Reply to: RE: Very nice posted by Neff on October 1, 2009 at 17:18:11:
PHOTO: EICO HF-12 (mono tube integrated amplifier 2X12W > 3-12AX7, 2- EL84, 1-EZ81 )
Neff,
I prefer most equipment in stereo, but as you say, good multiplex is rare in tuners, and perhaps that's the reason that every tuner I try sounds better to me in mono. - That plus the much lower noise. Tuners at home: Scott 330D, Mcintosh: MX110, MR67, MR77, Fisher 800 (receiver), Marantz: 2235 and 2275 (receivers), Revox B160.
Yes, I liked the Scott tuner so much I began thinking of doing a mono system around it and acquired an EICO HF-14, which despite having 50 year-old Mullards and capacitors makes an intriguingly a wonderful sound from what appears to be about 15 parts. The photo is an HF-12, the HF-14 is an HF-12 but with a more modern faceplate- instead of the 1942 Bureau of Consumer Appearance design.
It's amazingly good- I can now understand - I think- what the SET crowd is after. I'll use a Dual 1019 turntable with a Grado 78 cartridge also. For speakers, I'm thinking of modern- and I have them already- an Infinity Primus 362 which I'm thinking of thanks to the 93dB rating. I'd like to use the AR-3A's of my youth, but vintage speakers are another whole world to learn about. I even had a momentary dream of buying another HF-12 or -14 and using the transformers- with carefully selected modern components and deleting tone controls- as the basis for a pure dual mono integrated.
What kind of sources do you use with your EICO 2200 Classic?
Cheers,
Bambi B
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