atmasphere
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| Opportunity to buy the best Preamp... but which? Downunder, I get that. It seems that your situation illustrates the issue that, if there *is* a 'best' preamp, it would be almost impossible to find it, for no other reason than its almost impossible to get your hands on all the possibilities for ... | |
| Opportunity to buy the best Preamp... but which? Hi Downunder, In the world of tubes, the Aesthetix preamps are highly regarded, Einstein has an impressive preamp, we've been making an all tube balanced preamp longer than anyone else...I guess my point is, why did you go back to CJ after such a ... | |
| Personal amp evolution Since I'm a manufacturer, I've stayed off this thread, but re-reading it- well, I am still an audiophile.My first amplifier was a Knight Kit KA-95, which was a 35 wpc EL34-based integrated amp. From there I had a variety of Dyna St70s, MkIIIs, HK ... | |
| Opportunity to buy the best Preamp... but which? Hi Downunder, there are at least 5 other tube preamps I can think of that will do that. If I think about it, I can probably name more. Any reason why you limit yourself to the CJ? | |
| Tube preamp noise question Gjames, if the sound appears only in one channel, the first thing I would do would be to swap the interconnects from the preamp to amp, left for right *at the amp input only*.See if the problem moves. If it does not--> ampif it does --> prea... | |
| A question I suspect reveals a lot of ignorance... If your amplifier is class A, the volume setting will have little effect on tube life.With any other class of operation, the higher the volume setting, the shorter the life of the tubes, although other factors such as the actual bias level of the ... | |
| pairing a Dynaco st70 with a preamp Any good tube peramp will work fine.If it really is a vintage unit, make sure your filter capacitors in the power supply have been serviced out! | |
| Bypassing capacitor caps , and caps in General Bypassing filter caps good, bypassing coupling caps bad.Now some specifics: There are a lot of high frequency effects that can occur and you can't just bypass a power supply cap and get away with it, although sometimes you can. If you really want ... | |
| Best amps for MBL101e's? Hi Dob, FWIW our customer found that the MA-2 ($32,000) ran the speaker so well that he became quite curious as to what our preamps did, and bought one of those (MP-1, $10,300) so his system is all-tube. Apparently he had done solid state, and the... | |
| Opportunity to buy the best Preamp... but which? Jmaldonado, if God made a preamp it wouldn't have transistors in it either :) | |
| Anybody familiar with Mundorf silver&oil caps Hi Robert, it looks like we could not use the Duelands as the voltages are far too low.I stand by my earlier comment about bypassing: bypassing any coupling cap with another will result in smearing and there is no way to get around this. The rathe... | |
| Opportunity to buy the best Preamp... but which? We just revamped our MP-1 at the beginning of the year and we do think its the best thing out there. FWIW its turned into our best seller- outselling our cheaper preamp 10:1 and outselling the amps too. I think its better than anything I've heard,... | |
| Opportunity to buy the best Preamp... but which? So- if there is no 'best', doesn't it seem that there are a lot of manufacturers *saying* they have the best? I agree they can't all be right :)Seems to me also that this got covered in another thread. But still I find myself wondering- if someone... | |
| Best amps for MBL101e's? A customer of ours swears that the MA-2 is the best map he's heard on his system. From his reports, we've been able to determine that the MBL 101s are not nearly has hard to drive as they have the reputation for! | |
| Opportunity to buy the best Preamp... but which? So the 'best' does not exist? I have a challenge for you then.I can easily point out an area where preamp performances differ- and where listening preferences will favor the preamp that measures better: the ability to drive interconnect cables.I t... |