avanti1960
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| Compact ~20WPC Tube Amp Raven Audio Blackhawk. | |
| High powered single end 300b recommendations or this one, do not let the ratings fool you, this one will do the job. | |
| High powered single end 300b recommendations hope price is not a concern: https://www.triode.co.jp/english/TRX-M845/index.html | |
| Help and Advice Needed: Cary Audio SLP-05 Preamp RMA Disaster My 2.5 volt Luxman CD player sounds fantastic through the balanced ins and outs on my Cary preamp. | |
| Kickstarter for AAA "Vintage" with Kenny Barron, Joe Martin and Johnathan Blake Jerome, In already and can't wait! Love your projects and music! Peace, Tony | |
| Speakers that are good with tubes It depends on the tube amp and room size as to which speakers sound good with tube amps. I had a 20 watt Raven Audio tube integrated driving the supposedly tube non-friendly KEF LS50s in a medium large room and the sound was glorious. Also a 1... | |
| Help and Advice Needed: Cary Audio SLP-05 Preamp RMA Disaster @joshua43214 Cary should have specified an input sensitivity spec in their manual, agreed. However your DAC’s output voltage is exceedingly high with the XLR connections basically 6 volts, more than double the typical source output voltage. Man... | |
| My Medium List of Amplifiers and my Personal Review of Each ! Update to the list. OUT- Pass Labs XA30.8 IN- Parasound a21+ I tried very hard to keep the Pass XA30.8 but ultimately it had too much net gain for my Cary SLP-05 preamp with 24db. There were occasional over-driven artifacts in the sound that ... | |
| My Medium List of Amplifiers and my Personal Review of Each ! a combination of Harbeth SHL5+ and Spendor D7.2. | |
| Too Much Gain the Issue ? (preamp and amp) Update- sold the Pass XA30.8, simply too much gain to sound the best with my 24db gain preamp. | |
| Tube Preamp for Pass XA25 under $3,000 the XA30.8 has 26 db gain (quite a bit more than the XA25 20db). It was too much gain for my cary preamp and I sold the amp. gain matching is critical. | |
| Tube Preamp for Pass XA25 under $3,000 the backert labs preamps have a very good reputation, hopefully the 9db of gain will not cause the xa25 to sound anemic because of its relatively low 20db gain. my xa25 needed the 24 db gain my cary slp 05 put out, which is why i suggested the s... | |
| Cary Audio SLP-05 First Impression The Sylvania 6SN7 GTAs from the early 50's are the best sounding tubes I have had to date including Ken Rad, RCA, Raytheon etc. The Sylvanias are reasonable and NOS units are readily available from reliable tube sellers on e-b. | |
| Tube Preamp for Pass XA25 under $3,000 The recent Cary thread was about the SLP-05 and fixing the issue centered around too much gain from a high voltage source that had more than twice the voltage that the Cary and many other preamps specify. The DAC in question had an output of 6 v... | |
| Tube Preamp for Pass XA25 under $3,000 I have a Cary Audio SLP-05 when I had the Pass XA25 and it was a superb match- because the Cary had higher than usual gain (23db). The XA25 has lower than usual gain for a power amp (20 db). The 05 is over your budget but an SLP-98 is not. You wi... |