My system is at about the point that I first got to AK and started participating, When I went to the mac tubes I was using them with a rare pair of Sansui SP-5000. It was (is) a really good match up. I had two MC275 mono bridged @ 180 WPC, the SP-5000s are 90 watt and 102db. This has a great sound and performance that I haven't been able to beat to this day.
However after getting here and the constant negative ignorant comments like this....
And trying to explain over and over, (1) your talking about a speaker you'v never heard, and (2) even if you did I doubt you'v heard them with 180w of mac tubes hitting them hard. This is another reason I don't listen to people as to what to "buy" for my system, too many comments without any experience with the equipment being discussed.
So more dumb luck happened, when looking on the bay there was a pair of JBL L250 local to me. So I bought them, not really knowing much about them but they had to be good, better than (Kabuki
) and they looked cool.
When I first got them home...
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After resto and testing if they where still working, the first night to have a listen.
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The next weekend I pulled all the Sansui equipment out of the room to make way for the L250s. They needed to be setup and placed correctly for imaging and back wall space, and give me time to acclimate to their SQ.
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