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AES Six Pacs

I'm planning on picking up a pair of Six Pacs soon. The amps can be ordered with the following options and I'm wondering which would be worthwhile:

- Oil filled capactiors (Audio 1 or Jensen)
- xStream power cord
- WBT silver solder used throughout

I would be using the AE-3 MKII preamp and MiniMax phono upstream of the Six Pacs with a turntable being my primary source.
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jalapenos
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Jensen oil filled caps are a fantastic upgrade, and the wbt solder would be logical to add to the build as well. Skip the power cord, and upgrade a little later if needed. Shunyata and Cary are a great synergy in my book!
jalapenos
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No, I believe the newer models do offer more power: I sent my older sixpacs in to Cary for the Jensen upgrade and was advised that different transformers were available bumping the power up. After I received them back with the jensen caps and larger transformers, they sounded vastly superior to the original design... Night and day if you will!

I have also found 6CA7 output tubes to be great in the sixpacs, they are much cleaner at the frequency extremes than el34's.
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