How did you like the sound in this room? It wasn't perfect but I thought overall it was quite good...quite alive and present. Perhaps a bit thin in the lower voices and occasionally a bit splashy but it was one of the few I could listen to and feel like I am hearing music rather than sonic effects. That NAT tube is just amazing to look at!!
I can't help but thinking of an explosion when I see those amps lol
How did you like the sound in this room? It wasn't perfect but I thought overall it was quite good...quite alive and present. Perhaps a bit thin in the lower voices and occasionally a bit splashy but it was one of the few I could listen to and feel like I am hearing music rather than sonic effects. That NAT tube is just amazing to look at!!
I agree. That is why they are a nonstarter for me.
The rest of the system is unfamiliar to me too, so I did not take time to stay and listen. I think they do look absolutely amazing, and the new metal protective cage is a much better idea than a single front piece of glass.
The rest of the system is unfamiliar to me too, so I did not take time to stay and listen. I think they do look absolutely amazing, and the new metal protective cage is a much better idea than a single front piece of glass.
Taiko, kudos for risking taking photos from above the Magma
1- the heat coming off them could easily have vaporised you
2- had they decided to blow at that point...
Surely this fear of the Magma GM100 tubes blowing (joking aside) is an urban legend?
The infamous Ken Kessler exploding Transmitters tube episode was an entirely self-inflicted problem, indeed Nat were pretty pi$$ed off as to how this unreasonably reflected on them.
According to reliable reports, the amp and tubes were delivered in perfect working order.
In order for the amp to be moved from test bench to demo room, the tubes have to be removed.
It was during this procedure that the tube was critically damaged, and so the tube blowing went from “if” to “when”.
And so it came to pass, re the “incident”, and this being more remembered than a wholly positive review.
Had the tube been carefully removed and reinstalled, this would not have happened.
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