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| Good Preamp for Emerald Physics 2.3 You are right. The DBX is not a total assassin, but does influence things negatively. I have not heard of that modding outfit. If you have 4K to spend, I would look at the tudiokonnekt 48 and a mini. It would be under that price tag I believe and ... | |
| Good Preamp for Emerald Physics 2.3 Hooper, Rclaassen is right. I would go the Prism route. I briefly owned the 2.3s, and while they have a lot of promise, I think the cheap pro digital unit is a compromise. You can blunt the sonic contributions with tubes, but there are limitations... | |
| Review: Tube Research Labs Dude Tube preamp Bug, I agree. I have black and it looks fine. Discrete. Once you are awash in the sonics of it all, the last thing on your mind will be color.What was the final price tag on your Dude with all the custom work? I presume it was not $3800 as you lis... | |
| Review: Tube Research Labs Dude Tube preamp Bug, I saw a photographic preview of your pre-amp minus only the top, and it looks spectacular. Bravo.As for amps, I would snag a pair of Samsons. The synergy is glorious, and the two become more than the sum of their parts. Bill/Grannyring can at... | |
| Review: Tube Research Labs Dude Tube preamp King, question: when tube rolling the Transporter, was this eval done with the LSA in the chair or your tubed pre-amp? | |
| Review: Tube Research Labs Dude Tube preamp Interesting tube King, although I would like to know how they were able to measure reduced "electron swirl" that resulted from their proprietary carbon coating. Are they really $200 each? | |
| Pure Music Question That's what I figured. Why not make your life easy and just use mac products? Airport Express, Iphone/Itouch as a remote, and a wifi router (I use an Airport Extreme). You will still need Airfoil if you want to use PM. That's what I do... | |
| Review: Tube Research Labs Dude Tube preamp In addition to tubes, how about tube tweaks? | |
| Pure Music Question Tpy, I would check with the PM gang.... | |
| Review: Tube Research Labs Dude Tube preamp That is kool Gallant. I am still searching for the optimal tube. The Marconis are good but not perfect. Dale Pitcher at Intuitive Design has some cryo'd tubes that I am going to try. When I owned a Granite Audio 657, I used his treated 6922s and t... | |
| Pure Music Question I don't think so. WiFi is still limited to 16/44.1 whether its an airport express or apple tv.... | |
| Pure Music Question Jayboard, I have found the same to be true. The improvements are not subtle. I was skeptical about a piece of software effecting wireless music reproduction. I thought it was simply a matter of reconstructing the 1 and 0s. Steve Nugent at Empirica... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Very well said Teajay. Thanks to Paul/Pubul for stimulating people. He has an interesting perspective as someone who owns both the LSA and an active tubed pre-amp due to system requirements. That dialectic would bother me at the end of the day, bu... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Two months ago, a friend loaned me his LSA as I was curious and wanted to do a shootout between it and the TRL Dude. Like King, I also own the Samson monoblocks.The critical "Heather test' was performed (blindfolded wife + one glass of wine as a b... | |
| Review: Tube Research Labs Dude Tube preamp I have the bad habit of emailing reviewers/thread masters on Audiogon about their sentiments about a piece of equipment after the fact. Shockingly, a high percentage of people who wax poetic about equipment later throw it into the Audiogon recycle... |