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Supratek Owners Thread

Greetings All - 
It appears that the 26-million-plus view, multi-decade "Preamp Deal of the Century" Supratek thread has been removed. I'm not sure why, but suppose there must be a reasonable explanation.
In any case, on that thread I recently asked whether there might be interest in a "Supratek owners thread" and received some interest. 
The purpose of this thread is for Supratek owners to share the details of their system, ask questions, share information about any tube-rolling they have done, and so forth.
I'll kick us off here with a few details about my system -
ancient Linn LP12 with Ittok arm, Dynavector 17D3 cartridge into Cortese LCR phono stage
Power amp is a fully serviced Innersound Electrostatic amplifier
Quad ESL63 speakers (not USA monitors) or JBL 4430 studio monitors
Digital sources are immature and evolving - ancient Fostex CR300 cd player/burner
DacMagic 100 DAC
Nordost Blue Heaven 75ohm interconnect
Due to the fairly long lengths of speaker wire required in the new listening room, speaker wire is Belden 12 gauge wire designed for low-voltage outdoor lighting systems. 
Next steps - dedicated circuit, new power cords, new interconnects, new wires.
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markusthenaimnut OP
354 posts
 
@couger4u please keep us up to date on your situation. It's curious.
couger4u
55 posts
 
Well Mick gave up on my Cabernet hum issue. He does not know why the other new tubes hum and not the ones he sent me. I do not know if he tests his preamps with other tubes and only uses Russian tubes to calibrate his preamps. He is going to ask his technician in USA to take a look at the preamp but Mick says he is moving states so I have to wait till Mick tells me. In the meantime I have bought KAB subsonic filter and do not have the woofer pumping when playing vinyl. Also lifted the ground switch on my Parasound A21 amp and that has reduced the hum somewhat. The journey continues.
bufford
42 posts
 
Just received my New Chardonnay (4 Months) First I will say it looks much nicer than the pictures. I have just several hours on it and it is sounding great. It's paired with a Coda S5.5 amp which is 50 watts total class A. 26db gain which I was expecting to be a problem but it really isn't
I'm using it with a Lumin D2 which has a High/Low output setting which helps and an Oppo 105 D which is much "hotter" but with the adjustable gain on the Chardonnay it works out pretty good. My speakers are ZU Def IV's. The only hiss you hear is if you put your ear to the speaker. One small issue is you can't mute from the remote anymore. Verified that with Mick.It would be convenient but not that big a deal for me. I am not much of a reviewer or writer for that matter so that's about it.
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rosco88
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I acquired a 2nd hand Cabernet DHT middle of last year, I am extremely happy with the unit, it replaced my Ayon Auris which is also a nice pre-amp.  It came with Emmission Lab 45M in the output which are good but i have been tube rolling and now run mainly vintage 2A3 valves.  There wasn't a remote with mine and the seller said can get a 3rd party remote that will work.  Does anyone know what remote/s work with the Supratek ?
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