avanti1960
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| Help recommend a good tube preamp Cary Audio SLP 05. get a super deal during their holiday sale. | |
| Loving my tube Preamp, Class A amplifier. Whats your favorite amplifiyer combination? Class A Cary Audio preamp into a Class A Pass Labs power amp. Love it. | |
| Amp pairing with Tannoy Turnberry? Tannoys match very well with Zesto Audio amplification. | |
| Klipsch Forte III upgrade to Forte IV I prefer the sound of the III. The IV is more recessed in the midrange | |
| My Medium List of Amplifiers and my Personal Review of Each ! Final update: Update to the list. OUT- Pass Labs XA25 IN-Pass Labs XA 30.8 Reigning Champion- Pass Labs XA30.8 After letting the Pass Labs XA30.8 settle in and worked in to my system with cable tweaks and other adjustments it was clear what ... | |
| Monitors for 14 x 20 Room Second the Wharfdale EVOs. | |
| My Amp is good but probably the weak point @stevehuff likes Pass Labs with the Heresy speakers and I agree. Look for a Pass XA25 | |
| SUT - electrical theory and practical experience @mulveling The SUT I used include Cinemag 1254 transformers wired at 1:10 for my Lyra Delos. It sounded louder because of the extra resulting gain and really good but ultimately not as refined overall as my Sutherland fully active. | |
| Toroidal vs EI power amps any difference. The components in my system that sound the best use R-Core transformers. These use a continuous conductor and have opposing windings to cancel out magnetic flux and have ultra low noise. | |
| Ortofon Cadenza Blue vs Sumiko Starling @delmatae various turntables, most recently a technics 1200GR. just an end user who loves sound and music. I have had a fair number of cartridges in the last 5 years. dynavector, 3 ortofons, lyra, two audio technica ART9s, soundsmith. the o... | |
| Tonearm Parallel? Always start with the tonearm level and adjust +/- from there as needed AFTER the cartridge has run in for 50 hours or so. However a level tonearm is irrelevant. You really want a level top of cartridge headshell. Tonearms are hard to sight i... | |
| Ortofon Cadenza Blue vs Sumiko Starling I have the Cadenza Blue and it is an excellent sounding cartridge. Big bold soundstage and dynamics, slightly warm with big bass, very nice midrange bloom and refined treble. Beat to bits the Soundsmith MIMC star ES and edged out the Audio-Tec... | |
| SUT - electrical theory and practical experience In practice my SUT experience was disappointing. I used highly regarded Cinemag transformers with my Lyra Delos cartridge perfectly matched. The sound was energetic and loud but the treble was edgy and grainy. Using my Sutherland 20/20 fully acti... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) @doyle3433 I have heard the Razz several times and each time it is a sound I could absolutely live with. Most recent was at AXPONA last April. They were aimed with lots of toe in aiming at a spot a few feet in front of the listener. Huge soun... | |
| Pass Labs X350.5 vs. Cary SA-500.1 monoblocks Buy with the option to return. The Cary SLP-05 (which I own) has very high gain and even though you are pairing with a Cary power amp, it is still a gain miss match, which I am baffled over. The SA 500.1 is similar to the 200.2 which I used to... |