What tubes for ARC LS 5 preamp - 6922/6DJ8

Hello John
and thanks ALbert and Ed

John, good seeing you here again and thanks for all the preamp advice.

I bought the LS5 mk II a year ago and love it
actually I am looking at Steve Huntley of Great Northern Sound to upgrade my mkII. http://www.greatnorthernsound.com/home.htm

Steve does significant upgrades to the ARC products. Steve used to work for Audio Research in the design phase and does significant upgrades to ARC, Wadia and other high end pieces. His philosophy is that ARC made some cost saving corner cutting and newer technology exists to make these pieces sound significantly better. Steve is from your neck of the woods in Minnesota and is very helpful. Send him an email and find out about his mod program. I have a friend who Steve did a mod on for his LS22, it was much more open and musical than the stock unit. He also is a big fan of the LS 5 in the chain of ARC products.

cheers

Tom

Celery,

thanks for the post

how much of the sound improvement do you attribute to the Great Northern Sound upgrade and how much to the tube replacement???

would be interested to hear more on Steve's upgrade

thanks

Tom