@audioconnection 1,121 posts05-02-2020 7:05am As someone who truly knows, glad to see you posted this JohnnyR. While (he won’t do it because he’s a referral only type of business man), funny, Mike should DOUBLE or even triple the price on the Quicksilver Linestage and remote preamp for price-range buyers to consider it. Most overlook it due to low price... I did for too long. Same goes for the Mono amps. If I did not already have my former preaamp, I would have bought the new LS. Love the nice spaced out layout inside the preamp, low noise, low gain tube usage. Focus on function first is nice. Sounds nice with vintage and even simple PSVANE tubes, was kinda floored after my buddy pulled his NOS and tried the recent PSVANE "T" MKII tubes a few weeks ago. A tad more midrange and more musical than his JAN Military and other NOS tubes. Little Linestage sounds better than a few other preamps I heard on his system. VALUE+ A buddy just displaced his former other brand $5k tube preamp (now up for sale) replacing it with the $1000 QS preamp which sounds better, more musical, better sound stage paired up with his QS Mid Mono tube amps. He can’t get rid of his old preamp soon enough to put money back in the pocket. Synergy! |
@agranttz OP12 posts05-04-2020 6:50pmThank you guys! Just bought QS line stage non remote current version. Very exited! Now need to figure out the tube upgrade. Congrats. Good preamp match and it will smooth out the KT150s a bit too. Maybe let the LS and it’s coupling caps burn in for a few weeks then with the stock tubes - then report how it sounds to your ears on your system with your cables, speakers. It runs a pair of 12AT7s and Mike ships them with decent tubes IE or JJ for starters... not terrible. Based on what you want more/less of, we can get you close. You could try various vintage and a few buddies pulled their vintage tubes and tried newest version PSVANE signal tubes recently with some success. What speakers are you running again with the Mono 120s? |
