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| What Are The Best 12AT7's and 12AX7's? There is a lot of varients,for both tube types mentioned for sureThe black plate RCA Command series is a standard of excellence against any company, also Sylvania Gold Series these are some of the best the US made, also a gt tube with a WA or JAN ... | |
| 5Z4 half-wave rectifiers replacement suggestion A 5z4 is the same as the 5y3 gt , or 6101Going up to s 5ar4 gz-30 requires much more power You could put a 5z4 in a 5ar4 slot. It may work putting a 5ar4 in a 5z4Slot But it may gave very short life. The Bendix 6106 is very rugged And the best bas... | |
| Dared sl-2000 preamplifier SET preamp tips tp If you don't understand then just look at the parts used,that is what is needed to make this little single ended preamp shine even against some Much more expensive company. In this case vs the competition you Would have to spend $3-4k to get a pre... | |
| Dared sl-2000 preamplifier SET preamp tips tp What don't you understand? Spell check screws up words mant times and being tired I don't check text. | |
| Tweaking the caps of the Dared SL-2000A I would put in Mills resistors while I am there, 2-.22 uf caps on the inputAnd 4 caps on the output new ones maybe all 1 uf all are 400v Some models had 2 caps at .47 value you have to check.Parts connecxion suggested the Obbligatto Gold.truthfull... | |
| Bendix 6106 rectifier in Primaluna Prologue 3 5ar4 are a much larger tubegz34 same tube.if it calls for gz34 you can Put a 6106 as long as it does not sag too much in electrical demand depending on circuit, ,not the other way around currently drop over 40 volts If it calls for a 5y3-6106 cann... | |
| What Are The Best 12AT7's and 12AX7's? Sylvania black plate triple mica is hands down one of the best 12at7Ever made.as far as mid- low Bass possibly The Best. | |
| Schiit Gungnir DAC - anyone have one of these? The blue jean cables I had ,the Analysis plus Solo Crystal CopperAnd in- connects Silver over Copper totally destroyed therm ,not even 90 % that is being kind in every dept ! to really hear what is on your recordings borrow from the cable Co. For ... | |
| Upgrade from Wyred 4 Sound STP-SE The comment for a stp-SE- level 2 sonicly sounding like 20kis far more then to hope for ..it cannot even match many tube preamps under $7k. You want a Great preamp buy a Cary -05 preamp new $8500 is a Great preamplifier.This 2 box unit used can be... | |
| Upgrade from Wyred 4 Sound STP-SE The new CJ SEpre through Spearit sound can be bought for under$4kWith buying just 1 NOS tube or the EAT tube one makes for a great preamp with all their Teflon caps,and I believe they also use a FET stage A killer pre gets very close to the CT-5 f... | |
| Fuses that matter. I had to learn some fuses will breakin much more then others for their end caps are a solid alloy and just like Interconnects can take in some cases over 200 hours .look at the Review online of the Synergistic fusesThe reviewer stated even into th... | |
| Fuses that matter. Personally I find the Synergistic Research fuses the most natural balanced fuses. I have tried 5 of the named brand ones either bought or tried through friends.They literally can take 200 hours to fully open up because of the solid Alloy end caps,... | |
| What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed I have tried everybrand out there I have settled on the Synergistic research Fuses they seem to be a bit more warm sounding with excellent layering of instruments. As far as direction I asked Ted Denny the owner of SynergisticHe stated going with ... | |
| Bel Canto and Wyred monos I have directly compared the older Ice modules in the St amps.I bought the New St-500-MK-2 which use the exact latest Top of the lineIce amps,as well as the complete new FET input stage,with full differential Balanced inputs ,and where the St was ... | |
| Femto clocks ,every unit should have one In Wyred 4 sound case their clock in their a Femto clock in their SE dac is cumulative ,and since their system is Galvanically isolated this applies to digital noise, and the clocking being much more accurate and digital Phase noise a min of 75 % ... |