audioman58
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| Linear Tube Audio version 3 of the MicroZOTL pre Please see this response , I ordered my preamp just before Christmas mind you little was being done until After New years . any major upgrade would be known Months in advance between designing and testing layouts , then ordering New custom Circuit... | |
| Linear Tube Audio version 3 of the MicroZOTL pre You will not believe the answer I received from LTA , they purposely deceived me as being the absolute latest , they said it was a spur of the moment thing a blatant Lie, lots of months previously had to be planned drawings circuit boards tes... | |
| Linear Tube Audio version 3 of the MicroZOTL pre With the balanced Lundahl transformers is always a plus . I just bought mine last month , They knew 1000% while building my pre ,why didn’t they at least offer me the upgrade option ,that was not very good ,not very ethical imo , and to be honest... | |
| ICs with slim RCA Barrels? Wireworld Eclipse 10 are pretty each to use ,good price and very high quality in their latest series. Cables. | |
| I'm curious. What is your "normal" listening volume? Easy listening evening 75-80db, Rock out 90dbs to 100 db peaks | |
| Does anyone experience sound improvement from restarting power off and on of DAC? If you want a passive award winning audio improvement for equipment breakin and track3 a 5 minute system tuneup that works I have recommended this for years the Isotek system runin cd as far as your unit it may be a bad capacitor possibly . ... | |
| Upscale Audio is up front with customers In equipment maybe tubes no way I bought a mstch quad it was never even match ped maxed out my meter glowed red bad fro the get go and I have used tube amps over 40: years , Vacuum tube service, Brent Jesse, or vacuum tubes .net are quality go t... | |
| New Magico Speaker Break-in Question 2 questions these like current what amp are you using , land these Xovers take at least 150 hours to start opening up and 300 hours to full run in ,a couple guys have them in one of our audio clubs . the B&W 803D4. May have given you more b... | |
| Loudspeaker designer/manufacturer John DeVore shows reviewer Ken Micallef his system. Jason Bourne 71 did you personally measure these specifications or even have these amps in your Audio system ? I see this a lot , if there is a topic about anything , this applies to Everyone from tweaks like Fuses to sound isolation, to speake... | |
| Why do tube amps often subjectively sound more powerful than SS ? Tubes are transformer coupled and have more power on a wpc basis tubes are voltage based ,Solid state is current driver , better image and for sure more defined Bass ,if both are quality products,, that too is why Loudspeaker efficiency and mat... | |
| The DAC Scam - Almost everyone believes the hype Jason bourne71 what do you have that so great ? I can see spending maybe up to $10-$15 k is you have the funds . these are many really good dacs under $10k . I prefer just dedicated dacs much less to go wrong .I have 2 dacs that are very good ... | |
| Preamp Sibilance? If you want a great preamp that checks all the boxes the Linear TubevAudio micro Z-OTL. Is a great preamp and you have up to 4 tube types and characters to choose from , great parts quality throughout. David Berning design , then LTA worked to... | |
| Preamplifier options - seeking help to determine which one Linear TubeAudio Micro Z- otl by far the best sound value out there under $10k David Berning designed and these guys took it to another level in this latest model. | |
| The DAC Scam - Almost everyone believes the hype You have been on ASR review web site again . totally disagree starting from the router ,the wall wart garbage has to go just ads more noise , I bought a LTA LPS power supply ,and a decent $600 Ethernet switch ,decent power cords , and quality Et... | |
| Thinking of changing things up. Need advice on DAC/Streamers The Meitner Ma 3 is a nice it’s just better with good separates that was my point. |