caferacer59
Active Member
So, after being depressed about being a 55 year old guy who loves music and was listening to a crappy play 3 sonos speaker I finally manned up and perused craiglists for a few weeks, I ended up buying a Pioneer SX-750, and then a pair of Klipsch KG-4's. Its a rocking combination, that could easily blow the stained glass out of my old 1899 house. BUT.... after a few weeks, there was something off to me, the higher frequencies were fatiguing, so I went and did the Bob Crites tweeters and crossovers and it was definitely an improvement. Still as much as I like to rock out to everything from Neil Young to Portis Head, there is also my soft side, think Art Blakey, Ornette Coleman, Bud Powell, Stan Getz and the like. That said, I get back on Craiglist and look at tubes but the Fishers, the Dynaco's etc in nice shape are out of my league, but this cool guy who moved here from the Balkans last year, is building little DIY tube amps so I bought one. Its a 10 watt PushPull with 6P6S /6V6- tubes. 6 tubes in total with 3 Edcor transformers. It was inexpensive and sounds nice with the KG-4, not loud but room filling, All of that being said, as nice as it sounds its still missing the sound stage and intimacy i would like to get, so my question is, will tube rolling and spending a decent amount of money (to me), lets say up to 250 dollars on tube upgrades possibly get me closer to what I want or is in not possible with a little DIY push pull. Thanks, new guy who knows nothing.