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| Help: my phono preamp is blowing away my linestage Patrickamory, the IO Sig is an absolutely phenomenal phono stage and unfortunately, a Supratek linestage will not improve on what it does. I've tried many linestages with the IO Sig and found that going direct to the amp was absolutely incredible.... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century The latest Supratek preamps fitted with HT-Bypass have a switch on the top plate, near the back of the preamp, in-between the two transformer covers. By-pass only works when the switch is engaged and the Supratek doesn't even need to be powered on... | |
| Best Subwoofer avaible? I too have tried REL subs (as well as many others)- and I could not get them integrated - in fact, they sounded the best when they were unplugged. If you ask Wilson Benesch about subwoofers, they will most likely tell you what they told me, "Subwo... | |
| McIntosh MC402 and MC501 I've compared the two. While the MC402 is rated at 400 watts, it certainly seems underpowered for that rating. When driving Dynaudio speakers, the annoying orange "clip" indicator kept coming on. With the same speakers, the 501's were obviously WA... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Great interconnects for the Supratek... I've owned many - On a recommendation from Asa many years ago, I've come to prefer the Audio Note's (AN-Vz, KSL-LP1) CD to Pre, followed by high(er) end NBS interconnects to the amp. That combo has always pr... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Hi Cello, The best power cord I have found for the Supratek's is the Moray James PWR 1.5. The manufacturer has recently changed his design and claims it would be cost prohibitive to continue producing the 1.5 in small lots for those who request it... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Lisbon, The regulator tubes (6L6/6F6/KT66,etc.) will not increase the microphonics at all. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Photos of the 350b and 6F6G courtesy of Ecclectique!Photo One showing 350b and 6F6G. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Hi Slowhand, Here are some pictures of the Tung Sol Round Plate tubes grouped with some other tubes:Photo OnePhoto TwoThe images are not terribly high resolution but might give you some idea of what to look for. Look closesly at the tops of the tu... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Jewel - *I* liked the KenRad Black Glass tubes and I like the Tung-Sol Round Plates. They are both very good choices. Honestly, the stock 6Sn7's sound a bit like a cross between both tubes - somewhat closer to the Tung-Sol but less harmonically co... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Jewel, Glad you're having fun! Finding good 6SN7's is actually quite difficult because most are microphonic in the Syrah. I estimate that 1 out of 10 6SN7's you'll find will be troublesome. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Hi Swampwalker, Actually I may have an umbilical that might work for you. Its from a Chardonnay and its 10 feet long. Its worked on a friends Syrah and it may work on yours. Some of the umbilicals are slightly different than others depending on ho... | |
| Got iPod, how to hook up? The data on CD's is in CDA format - whatever that is. :) CDA gets translated into other formats (WAV,AIFF,MP3,etc.)when "ripped" from CD and then re-encoded back to CDA when put back on a CD. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Sorry, I had to ask about the inputs - I realize its a trivial thing. If the DC power cord is connected properly and not mis-aligned, then perhaps there is a real problem. I wonder if this could have been caused by tubes which are shorted. Did you... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Swampwalker - Guess I was trying to say that maybe your input selector switch (front right knob) was on the wrong input. I know this is silly but it happens. Sometimes when we switch cables around we mistakenly put them back on the wrong input. |