Originally Posted by
Dirk Williams
In this day, all your kit would be considered a great score. The DQ-10s, are fantastic, when pushed with proper power. I've got two sets. Carver makes good gear, the quality is outstanding. I'd be running the 10s,just find the Klipsch speakers to be so efficient with my older gear, pushing maybe 15 watts per channel.
My recent purchases have been Dynaco ST-70 tube amps. And Dynaco PAS2/3 pre amps. Also got into the Stromberg Carlsen intigrated amps, a week phono section in the iron, amazing music. Many of these were console pulls.
Also Heathkit,stuff, is desirable. Got several of their Tube amps. My best gear is David Bernings ZF270 tube amp, along with Bernings TF-10 pre amp. I'm sourcing his TF-12, got 8 grand tied up in my Berning gear alone.
CD players and cassette units, anything Nack, Denon Kyocera, or my favorite is California audio labs. I purchased a nos CAL, down in Reno for 900.00, it's a tube unit, along with a low end Conrad Johnson amp. Also have a bit of Mac gear but it's SS.
Back to the DQ-10s. Oh, your speakers if in good shape are reasonably priced, 400/500.00 the quality of music these fine gentleman produce is amazing. Also have a set of DQ-20s, an impulse buy. Great speakers a step up from the 10s, mine are in poor shape.
I'm retired, getting older, and find myself reaching back to the finer things of my past. My kits not the best, yet it's high end, and represent an era, of refinement. The new gear sounds awesome, SS or Tube. I just wanted to recreate the sounds and quality of music I grew up with.
My parents were music lovers, I inherited that same gene. I'm 63 now, can't tell you how many guns I own, but you guys here taught me the value of high quality, rifles pistols. Not that I had junk. But how to incorporate good pieces and parts into them. Samo samo with this fine old stereo gear.
I've not embraced these modern times, I like being surrounded by old stuff, to tinker with. Thes older stereo units are of a quality rarely seen in this day and age.
DW
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