Supratek Owners Thread

After A few weeks of reading and researching and emailing back and forth with Mike,I placed an order for A Cortese! I wanted an all in one preamp like my Marantz. Now the waiting begins, going to be a Long few months.

@chuckie  congrats and hope you get to set it up soon. I can tell by the difference between when I first turned it on till now that it needs some play time before it is judged. It just seems to really convey real instruments and singers better than any Preamp I've had which includes Marantz 7,Hovland HP100,Audible Illusions,and Conrad Johnson.

Thanks @aldnorab my marantz sounds great,always wanted to hear a Preamp using 6sn7 tubes with balenced outs. Wasn't interested in Schitt audio Freya+,so this will help to not use my Marantz 7 all of the time. 

Can someone measure the dimensions of the power supply for the Cortese? I need to make a shelf for the power supply, my rack is full. Just a shelf for the preamp itself. Thanks for any help.

Thank you very much, this is going to be sitting on the floor next to my rack.

@Wideload that sounds great! Maybe that means I'll receive mine around the end of April,fingers crossed.

@aldnorab the power supply will be on the floor stand,the Preamp section will be in my rack. I'm making a 15"X15" platform that I can change the legs length to whatever I need. I'm making it with 8" legs for now,after the Cortese arrives I may make changes depending on umbilical to Preamp. Might just make this into a 2 shelf unit.

@wideload did your Preamp come in yet? I'm waiting on a Cortese and the wait is killing me lol.

Good news,my Cortese shipped a few days ago and is already in the states! I ordered it the first week of March,Mick included a few different sets of tubes that he said make a difference depending on which ones you use,so hopefully by this weekend,feel like I've been waiting forever lol.

@firstgrowth yes I will post some early opinions. How do you post pictures on here? Any idea.

It's official, my Cortese arrived this morning! So far its definitely sounding great! Only a few hours on it but from when I first put it into the system to now I can hear that it has opened up more, at first it sounded a little stuffy but not now lol. Mine is the dark wood base with chrome plate tops. The rest of my system consists of Magnepan 1.7i,and 3.6r's that I switch between sometimes,2 sunfire subs in use when the 1.7i's are playing,PS Audio M1200 amps, chord cutest dac,meridian cd transport and a meridian 518 processor, and my trusty Technics ML-1000 Mk2 Table with a Ortofon TA210 arm which I use different carts with. Everything sounds more lifelike and life-size. My other preamp is no slouch by any means-Marantz7 Preamp,technology moves on but I would still never sell my Marantz. 

Do you have a lot of storms where you live? Hopefully you'll be back and running very soon. It's definitely worth the wait!😎

Only possible upgrade for my Cortese was weather I wanted to go the LCR version or not. I didn't,though about half way through I asked him to go ahead and do the LCR version but he said if I want to do that there's a loooong wait because the trannies are on backorder and it could be August before I see. My Preamp. I told him forget it and the delivery was just a few days ago.

@Chuckie Ive seen on the news the storms that you guys suffer through, they look crazy on Athene's I can't imagine how bad it must be in real life. Hope you get it back together soon and have a mellow storm season this year.