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| What is a very nice sounding tube preamp? Here's an alternative...build your own. Check out the #26 Preamp thread on DIYAudio, you can build a fantastic-sounding preamp for little money if you're willing to spend some time and effort. Mine came out sounding better than any commercial pre ... | |
| PS AUDIO PREMIER I had a PPP that had problems; it kept going out of regeneration mode. PS Audio fixed it once for free. When it happened again I traded it in for a P5. WOW, what a difference, the P5 makes the PPP look like the cheaper Chinese product it is. The P... | |
| PS Audio Power Plant Premier THD Output Results I've had both the PPP and the P5, and the P5 is by far a superior unit. Better built, better performance in terms of % distortion, and it sounds better too (more punch in the bass). I'd recommend the upgrade from the PPP any time. | |
| PMC vs. Salk Sound Speakers. Which is better? OK. Good One. You fooled me. | |
| PMC vs. Salk Sound Speakers. Which is better? Power Supplies? In a speaker?Vapor is correct, the number of parts is meaningless, in fact many excellent speakers have only one or two parts in their crossovers; some have none. Lots of parts can mean the use of correction networks to "fix" defec... | |
| Could they sell a high-end amp without the fancy That's the beauty of DIY. You can make it as bling-infested or as utilitarian as you desire. Spending more on the components than the casework should result in better sound and a heavier wallet. Hell, if you're only making one, you can even spend ... | |
| Top ten tube preamps Swampwalker,I do some of the casework, farm some of it out when it's past the level of my drill press and Greenlee punches. Chrome work is done by a local plating shop that usually does bumpers and exhaust pipes; they were amused when I told them ... | |
| Top ten tube preamps The main character in the 200W SET saga:The 833CBTW, it's also a DHT, just a multi-kilovolt B+ version. | |
| Top ten tube preamps Atma,It's a linestage. I already have a phono stage that is good down to .1mV cartridges, so I'm covered there.Swampwalker, I think it sounds great, probably because I made it to sound the way I like my music to sound. Next project is a 200+wpc SE... | |
| Top ten tube preamps My favorite is the one I built for myself. It sounds EXACTLY the way I like preamps to sound...go figure.If you want something done right...And in all honesty, it beats the pants off my Supratek. | |
| Bob Carver 180 Mono-blocks perform superbly So why are "vintage transformers" better than the ones wound now, specifically for these amps? Old is good? | |
| Bent Audio Autoformer vs Tube Pre The Bent Autoformer VC is excellent. Sixty-one 1dB steps, from -54dB to +7dB, all done via instrumentation-quality reed relays rated for billions of operations. The power they consume is used solely for the relay switching circuit. I love them in ... | |
| Bent Audio Autoformer vs Tube Pre Neither was I until I worked at it. It just takes time, patience, lots of research, and some money to get good parts. Oh...and a patient wife... | |
| Bent Audio Autoformer vs Tube Pre I went for BOTH! I built a 26 DHT tube preamp using the Bent Audio autoformers in double duty as both the output "transformers" and volume controls. Sounds incredible! Kills my Supratek in transparency, detail and immediacy.26 Preamp26 Preamp Inte... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Hmmm, the Duelund "discount" caps have been expanded to 10 values at PCX. PCX is still using the "volume discount" story, yet no answers to our questions about the change in form factor. |