Tony Ma

Which tube amp you are using? Would you please share your experience with us. Thanks.

John

Roger 3/5a 11 ohm.
Pre ARC LS7,
Power Allegro 300B.
Sweet in woman vocal. Nothing else ???

Now change to use a China Int. amp as power 160 watt. I am very satisfy with it

Hi Gingers,

I am also a LS3/5a user. I own a pair of Rosewood Harbeth 11Ohm LS3/5a. I still remember when I first got it, it sound awful. After a week of "boiling" The sound become very open. I think that is the magic of LS3/5a. It is like a "Old fire Soup" You need to take care of it time to time

I use Leak 12 Point one or Leak Stereo 20 to push it.

My closed frame of 12.1 I wish to get the open frame...but it is so rare to get a perfect pair. So I settled down with a closed frame.

Mr. Ginger,

You made my day.

I love my Chartwell, with early serial no. 382/383, and I looking for other old brands.

Jody, I am seriously interested at your Goodmans.

Also, being poisoned by Mr. Ginger, I am also collecting old tube amps, Of course, I am no match to Mr. Ginger, Mr. Yim, Mr. AChow, Mr. Tim.

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請問各高手LS3/5A 是否難推?
本人想用TubeAmp,想知min.output 要多少才可?
300B(8watt) OK?
Thanks!

bobolon

I think 300B tube amp is not quite suitable for driving a pair of LS3/5A. Not enough power. But the high hands here please advise.

John Keung

個人意見,
300B推3/5a, 除髐H聲,其他真係唔係好惦.

記得Tim哥話越大力越正,
現改用160watt後級推,好滿意.

Thks John & S.Chan.
請問160watt是TubeAmp嗎?
是的本人喜好人聲,當然不是演講得吧聲.:p

Sorry forgot to mention.
That is a cheap cheap China SS Int.amp which I use as power amp.

I have a pair of Rogers 3/5a (15 ohm version). I used to drive them by Swiss Physis model 5 pre + model 6A power amp for causal listening. If I have time to settle down for a few hours, I use Swiss Physis model 5 pre amp + Quad II mono block power amp to enjoy my vinyls. Though I've tried some other speakers for these years, the Rogers remain at home as the only pair of speakers. They cannot give me hi-fi sound, but music!
Btw, I'm always looking for a good tube pre amp (must with phono input) in the second hand market. But good tube pre amp with phono input are always with very high price.

To Gingers

I am using DIY Marantz 7 pre-amp + ASL AV-8 tube power amp. The power amp is using 6BM8. A low price combination but to me I am satisfied with its sweet sound.

我也跟Gingers兄一樣，在十幾年前在"新一系"買了一對Rogers15ohm回家，因它常拍邊，便想辦法另它不拍邊，其間知了很多關於它的資料，更開始懷疑它不是15ohm，於是便打電話去英國問Rogers廠，他們回答我是貼錯label，當時真的有些不開心。亦對這間廠失信心，我想如不是真15ohm可以改分音器了，於是用了二千元upgrade，但最後都是賣了給朋友。
其後我也有玩大喇叭等等，但始終不能忘記3/5a，於是又玩回3/5a，當是我覺得論手工最好的是spendor，相對rogers來說，而且是cardas限量版，於是便買了，用到現在我都很滿意，雖然很多人都說spendor不好，但我覺得很好啊，播靜態音樂和動態音樂也可，很少拍邊。

aHong

Are you DIYer? I am new in DIY. All I know is to replace the resistor and capacitors. That's all.

John

Stephen

They are so called pseudo Rogers 15 ohms. Good collector item. 11 ohm LS3/5A also gives good sound. I doubt that Rogers forgot to change the labels. I think they just want to use all the labels in hand to save some money.

John Keung

LS3/5a 同好會 members,

Can you also post your speaker here? By the way, How do you maintain your speaker case? I use some Lemon Oil from Park N Shop to put it on. The result is quite good.

My KEF Piano Black with my Leak TL/12 Point One.

Hi Alan

Your Leak TL/12 Point One is <> than mine. :P

John

Alan

Beware. Old English Lemon Oil Furniture Polish will change the colour of the wood veneer. Make the colour darker. If the wood veneer is teak and walnut, use the yellow oil only.

John