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| Preamp after Manley Steelhead? The Steelhead on its own is a good preamp. I was a little annoyed when a local audio engineer looked inside the chassis and pointed out all the cheap, bad sounding components.... but intrigued by the thought of what could be possible with the Stee... | |
| Best Phono Pre for Teres Raul's recommendation for the Whest PS.20 is a good one - it's a new(ish) product which has been very well received by the audio press. Contrary to what Raul has posted, there is one REALLY good step up transformer available but it is nearly impos... | |
| Calling all ZYX aficionados Thomasheisig - good point but think about it a bit... A quick "set-up during lunch" so to speak, will most likely produce inferior results - obviously. What it does provide is a starting point for the evaluation process and fine tuning to begin. W... | |
| Calling all ZYX aficionados Sirspeedy - nice post. As I am sure you well know, most audiophiles are intelligent enough to realize that a lunch-time audition is not enough to produce a definitive result.I presume your reference to Arthur (and how your adopting his way of look... | |
| Calling all ZYX aficionados I just received my UNIverse today - and since I didn't have my new phono preamp yet, I installed it on a friends Avid Acutus table for a quick listen. We did this during our lunch hour.Before installing the UNIverse we listened to his Dynavector X... | |
| Supratek Tubes and Tube Swappin' for Everybody Ah.. so Mick like the Bendix too! Nice! Sorlowski, thanks for posting. | |
| Supratek Tubes and Tube Swappin' for Everybody Whoopadeedoo - if you're using a Chardonnay, just disconnect your power supply from the line stage and turn on the power supply. That's all it takes to burn in the Bendix. I had mine running 24/7 for more than a week before it started to sound goo... | |
| Supratek Tubes and Tube Swappin' for Everybody Bummer. I'm going to remove my 350B's and go back to the Sovteks that the preamp came with. :)I don't know... is .1a extra heater current in a regulator really too much for the power supply to handle? I haven't heard of anyone having trouble with ... | |
| Supratek Tubes and Tube Swappin' for Everybody Jazzdude, thanks for the post. Great feedback on the rectifier tubes. Keep that 6106 burning. I am not sure how long it takes to fully break in but once it does, its pretty amazing. However...it does not work well with all regulator tubes. I have ... | |
| Supratek Tubes and Tube Swappin' for Everybody Hi Guys.. Also I think that www.tubeworld.com has the Bendix 6106 available new in box. | |
| Supratek Tubes and Tube Swappin' for Everybody Hi Whoopadeedoo - I really don't want to argue about it so... I'll take your word for it, printing means nothing, the construction is the same, and they all sound the same and we'll leave it at that. How many KR's have I owned? I don't remember ex... | |
| Supratek Tubes and Tube Swappin' for Everybody Whoopadeedoo. The differences in sound are dramatic. I am not the only person who has heard the differences. If you have a the three sets (6SN7, VT-231, and NAVY versions) give each a listen and if you cannot hear a difference, I'd be quite surpri... | |
| Supratek Tubes and Tube Swappin' for Everybody Whoopadeedoo - as a tube dealer, I am surprised you don't know that especially with military spec tubes, printing means something. And yes. There are three distinct "flavors" of Ken Rad Black Glass tubes. In vintage non-military spec tubes, parts ... | |
| Supratek Tubes and Tube Swappin' for Everybody Aloha Fiddler! Thanks for the invitation - It would be great to meet you and see your show but unfortunately, we've got all our activities booked out and will be unable to get to Maui on this trip. Perhaps next time - which may be in the next few ... | |
| Supratek Tubes and Tube Swappin' for Everybody Aloha Fiddler, that's great! So I'm not crazy after all? :) Hey.... I'm in Kauai right now... and I can almost hear how awesome your system sounds from here! |