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| How important is the pre-amp? For those of you who don’t need line level amplification (who don’t use a turntable) Marchand makes a high quality, battery powered passive “preamp” with motorized passive stepped resistor attenuator & remote plus selector. The battety supply... | |
| How important is the pre-amp? I agree that a high performance preamp is important with respect to the performance of a hi-fi system as a whole, but I disagree that the preamp’s sonic performance is always tightly correlated with the price. Sometimes you pay a lot of money for ... | |
| Poor Customer Service I bought a Peachtree amp500 through Underwood Wally, hooked it up in my complicated bi-amped system and thought the amp was dead. Wally and Peachtree were more than gracious and rushed a replacement amp out to me in 2 days. It turned out that th... | |
| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear Jonathan, the owner, is a very interesting guy with interesting ideas. He knows a lot about the history of audio and has an impressive collection of audio antiques to match. He is an iconoclast. I will not be purchasing any of his unusual produc... | |
| Poor Customer Service I’ve experienced excellent customer service from the following:MagnepanUnderwood WallyPeachtree AudioVacuum Tube Audio (tubes4hifi)I agree that “Covid,” has become a convenient excuse for anything & everything. | |
| Biggest "bang for the buck" audio gear you have owned(in your history)? Magnepan MGIMagnepan 1.6Hafler DH 500Carver 275Vacuum Tube Audio SP14 preamp | |
| How long is it taking to receive a preamp? Try tubes4hifi. | |
| Cables that measure the same but (seem?) to sound different In the absence of data, as I have described it previously, a lot of verbiage is generated.sdl4 has posted real, meaningful, data, above, supporting the superiority of Straight Wire Virtuoso Cable, at least over Monster Cable. Now we’re getting som... | |
| Low budget vintage preamp or new Look at Vacuum Tube Audio (tubes4hifi). I am very happy with my SP14 preamp, based on the 6SN7. Prices are reasonable. | |
| Klipsch Forte ii too bright, or is it my room ? I agree, try vacuum tube amplification, even low power vacuum tube amplification, before you give up on the Klipsch. How about a little 15w/Ch amp based on EL84’s. There are some decent integrated amps of this types from China or power amps made ... | |
| Cables that measure the same but (seem?) to sound different Allow me to commend and support the observations made by the “user,” as quoted by hilde45.In medical school, I was trained that the way to evaluate the effectiveness or relative strength of a device, a drug, a method, etc. is by conducting a place... | |
| Cables that measure the same but (seem?) to sound different Sniff, I have the itmost respect for your “ass backwards” judgement concerning your personal listening experience. In my little listening universe, however, choosing recordings based to some extent on their compatibility with my system is perfec... | |
| Cables that measure the same but (seem?) to sound different djones51, Yes, we’ve been discussing listening to recorded music, e.g., listening to vinyl through a stereo. | |
| Cables that measure the same but (seem?) to sound different djones51, your point is well taken. I was searching for a musical quality which could be discerned by listeners but not possibly measured by existing guages. “Warmth,” or “brightness,” would have been a better choice than timber. I believe that... | |
| Cable recommendations for my new (preowned) system... Check out tubes4hifi for very good quality German interconnects, about $50. RCA terminals excellent quality. Also low priced thick power cords. |