charles1dad
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| Elrog 300b's for sale. Your thoughts? I believe that Mike’s experience with the Elrog in his Lampizator DAC unfortunately has minimal relevance to its performance in a power amplifier,. I’d assume that far greater demands are placed on the tube tasked with driving speaker loads. It is... | |
| Elrog 300b's for sale. Your thoughts? Hi Bill,Well I did indeed have 3 failed attempts with the Elrog 300b and excellent support from George at tubesusa.com, the tube failures sure weren’t his fault. This is a classic example of superb sound vs product unreliability. No doubt about it... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... I can accept the concept of sound quality hierarchy of no fuse-premium fuse-standard fuse infuse in that order. Its become clear to me that based on listening, the fuse seems to be a bottleneck in terms of sound quality. The upgrade fuses in my co... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Hi Dicockrum,That was a very nice (and accurate) acknowledgement concerning Frank. I agree that the outreach and response involving many participants of this thread is an overwhelming sucess. We have improved the sound of our audio systems with th... | |
| Line Magnetic 219ia vs Mc225 factenGeorge lists the complete EML line however I believe you have to call him in regard to the Western Electric tubes.Charles | |
| Best Cheap Amps for Magneplanar Speakers Hi frog man,Overwhelmingly high powered SS amplifiers are suggested for driving Maggies. I happen to agree with your recommendation if the objective is a more natural and realistic instrument/vocal tone. You've provided very good advice. Charles | |
| Non shielded interconnects for connecting to tube integrated gear It depends on the system setup and local room environment and susceptibility to interference/noise. Potentially unshielded cables can sound very open and transparent. I'm able to use unshielded cables in my tubed system and they're terrific sou... | |
| Line Magnetic 219ia vs Mc225 Jkull,Your approach is wise in my opinion . You listen primarily to records so a high quality Phono stage is mandatory to obtain superior sound. I agree with beginning with the preamplifier and input signal tubes and then progression down the sig... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil 200 hours would be ideal although they sound very special by 100 hours for sure. I'm a hugh advocate of the Duelund CAST. After all these years of having them in my speaker's tweeter site and in my DAC (output coupling capacitors) I thoroughly ap... | |
| Line Magnetic 219ia vs Mc225 Hi Al,I happily defer to you in regards to all that is technical in nature. I am limited to the realm of the philosophical and subjective listening experiences.High quality 12AX7s will likely make a very noticeable difference in the critical pream... | |
| Line Magnetic 219ia vs Mc225 Yes, I believe that you’re using the preamp (line stage function) section in the pathway to provide gain for your phono signal .If Al happens to be still following this thread I hope he’ll correct me if I’m mistaken.I think the 219ia allows bypass... | |
| Line Magnetic 219ia vs Mc225 jkull,From what I've read the weak link in the 219ia are the preamplifier stock 12AX7s. If you are using the preamp section of the 219ia rather than a separate preamp that is a good place to begin tube replacement.Charles | |
| Line Magnetic 219ia vs Mc225 Hello Chris,A pair of the EML XLS 300b cost 775.00 USD from tubesusa.com in New York. Their service and support is 2nd to none. The Psvane W.E Replica are 935.00 USD. Psvane does have lower cost models/series of the 300b that are good quality. T... | |
| Line Magnetic 219ia vs Mc225 Jkull,The premium level DHT tubes are expensive, especially 300bs (Takatsuki or heaven forbid the Western Electric vintage types). The Psvane W.E Replica are pricey but not exorbitant and in my opinion represent excellent value given their high q... | |
| Line Magnetic 219ia vs Mc225 Jkull,Good choices of upgraded tubes. I've heard the Shuguang Natural series 845 and it's nice sounding. The Psvane W.E, Replica 845 is a level beyond the Shuguang in sound quality. Charles |