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| Tube advice marktomaras - yes your ARC amp will in time drop out of bias; the VT100 is not a self biasing amp... double check but I'm pretty sure it's not. I know the VT50 is not and my dad checks his often and checks his tubes as well on his tube tester's.mo... | |
| Tube advice Nothing wrong with tubes from Tube Depot. Pay for matched sets. The trick is knowing how to bias an ARC amp, especially the VT series. You have to bias your amp(s) and you should be doing this often as they will shift as the tubes age. Before you ... | |
| $1600. preamp Spend around $1,000 and look for a ModWright SWL 9.0 SE or spend a little more than your budget for the LS100. | |
| Cambridge Audio DacMagic in 2016? My dad has a DACmagic and I dragged over a Marantz HD‑DAC1 which we both felt was the better DAC. The Marantz is more musical with a fuller sound; sounds more analog like the CAL Icon my dad onced owned as well but much better. The DACmagic is sti... | |
| Speaker cables for paradigm studios Paul's ICs are very good, both single and balanced. Very reasonably priced with very nice plugs, especially the Puresonic XLRs. The Puresonic RCAs are a little chunky so if your equipment has the jacks close together they will rub up against each ... | |
| XLR-Balanced Hybrid Hi-End Cable The Canare is a good cable. It's a little soft to my ears so if one has a bright system it would be ideal. I think the bass is fine and use it on my kick drum and all the mic's on my kit. Really the big thing that jumps out to me when I threw them... | |
| XLR-Balanced Hybrid Hi-End Cable I feel my balanced Clear Day and WyWires cables are superior to my Canare with Neutrix XLRs. I use Canare on stage because it's flexible, durable and when I have 100ft of it or so on my kit alone it's affordable as a mic cable. I've used my Canare... | |
| Speaker cables for paradigm studios Clear Days Double Shotguns with Paul's jumpers will walk all over AQ type 4, not even in the same league, not even close. An older cable, the AQ Sterling is still a very respectable cable which I know well is closer to the Clear Days. Between the ... | |
| Best current footers for preamps? Daedalus Isolation Devices, DIDs. | |
| Dac Suggestions for Rega System I agree on the Marantz HD DAC 1. Very nice unit for the money, built very well and it's a very nice headphone amp on top of it. As a headphone amp alone it's worth the money, but I do agree it is a better DAC. Very nice piece and great recommendat... | |
| Cary SLM-100 amplifîer upgrade question I’ve never listened to any of the Vincent equipment but that being said I’d be very tempted to buy the Cary’s and later sale the amp you like less. I do know the Aerius well and I bet the full tube magic will be a smart move. I’ve listened to many... | |
| XLR-Balanced Hybrid Hi-End Cable Plenty of great cables out there that's for sure. Narrow it down to the ones you're interested in and see if you can find a store or if no store local I've had great luck with the manufacture sending them to me direct which is a no brainier - Try ... | |
| Do I need a Dac? Definitely agree with jond on look at your cables maybe first. You already have nice equipment and if you did upgrade to a DAC, with your current cables you might not hear much of a difference. I used to own and use Kimber 4TC and used to think it... | |
| Do I need a Dac? I've heard your Halo plenty as it gets plenty of play time at our local Parasound and Cambridge dealer. I have not heard the Cambridge 851D but I do own the 851C and that is a great player and I believe they are very similar. I can say that at the... | |
| Elac Uni-Fi UB5 That’s if they ever ship. My kid sister ordered a pair before the first shipping date of May 1st, then it got pushed back to the 25th. She just received information from who she preordered them that they are extending the shipping date out another... |