Quote Originally Posted by LeRoy View Post
I think I'm just about gonna have to try most replacements for the 6N3 before I stick with one brand. After burning the new tube (presumably Tung-Sol) I got to missing the "air" in the upper frequencies. So, I went ahead and rolled the next set of tubes (presumably Bendix). With the presumed Bendix tube I got excitement back in the upper frequencies, and "air" with expanded soundstage, natural sounding mids, and softer low end. The depth of the bass was not equal to the presumed T.S. tube and with some songs did not really sound coherent with the rest of the music. Other times the bass was just right. At the moment I have a love/hate thing going on with the B.

Yesterday I went to my local Magnolia/Best Buy shop because " I knew" they carried the M.A. line as I heard the M.A. last about 3 months ago at that very local. Well, Magnolia dropped the M.A. and so I did not get to give the BX5 a listen. Plan B was to go get a Guinness so I did.

Interesting possibility with the BA A-250. I think Crutchfield carries the line and in my dealings with them I have always had an excellent customer service experience.
Stopped by a Magnolia store today for a few minutes. Didn't see any MA but I did see Martian Logans and Definitive Tech's in the listening rooms. Listened very briefly to both and was floored by the Martian Logans. The DT's sounded excellent as well. I plan to go back in a couple of weeks to spend a little time listening to them with my own music. At worst if the Motion 4 sounds half as good as the floor stander I heard I would buy those in an instant.

Those Tannoy V1's you suggested LeRoy don't get the greatest reviews by a number of people on the Test Freaks site. TF seems to like them but many others seem indifferent to them or don't like them that much. Apparently they are nothing like the floor stander that you own.