clio09
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| Modifications to integrated tube amp: experiences? The best tube dealer I know is Andy at Vintage Tube Services. He offers a money back guarantee and some of the best selection of NOS tubes available. I have bought GE 5751's from him as well as other 5751 and 12AX7 variants. | |
| Review: Tube Research Labs Dude Tube preamp The cosmetics kind of reminds me of the Wytech Labs gear. Mine will sport purple heart knobs for the volume controls and brass knobs for the input selector and stereo/mono switch. These are carry overs from my TRL Pre-1.5. I'm also going to look i... | |
| Review: Tube Research Labs Dude Tube preamp Nice review Andrew. I will be eagerly awaiting mine. | |
| audio horizons-Unhappy & Why Lots of great preamps for under $3k. Heck, I just found two under $500 that compete well with other preamps I've owned that cost 5 - 6 times more. Considering the generous trial period, as well as the many happy users, why not listen to the Audio ... | |
| Transmission line speakers Intuitive Design and Salk. | |
| Grounding ? Charles Hansen of Ayre also advocates floating the grounds. | |
| Spendor speakers This is where I tend to disagree with some Spendor owners. Tube amps and Spendors never sounded as good in my system as they did powered by solid state amps. | |
| Spendor speakers I was a Spendor user for quite some time. Still have the first pair I bought which were the 3/1. Moved to the 7/1 then the 1/2E. I enjoyed all these speakers. While I no longer use Spendor, if I see a pair of 9/1's come up for sale I may just have... | |
| B and O Turntables I own an RX-2 and Beogram 4500, used to own a Rega Planar 3. The 4500 with the tangential tracking arm is superior to both IMO, and the Rega was better than the RX-2. If you can, find a nice tangential tracking B&O table, preferably one that u... | |
| Review: Tube Research Labs Dude Tube preamp I'm about to send my TRL Pre-1.5 in for conversion to the Dude. Looking forward to hearing it in my system. Mine will carry over the dual 45 step attenuators and Stereo/Mono switch. Other than that it will be gutted and redone with the new power s... | |
| Grounding ? A cheater plug is a good idea for testing. Not sure if its a good idea to use it permanently. To float the grounds in my system, I put a piece of electrical tape on the ground prong of the IEC connector on my transport and DAC. That way when I plu... | |
| Who has dumped the power conditioner? Agree with Kijanki. | |
| 30 ft rca run too long for a phono to preamp? As for Timbernation buyer beware:Timbernation andTimbernation TooBetween spotty workmanship, long delays, and some people not receiving their items it should make one think twice about ordering. My own personal experience mirrors that of some of t... | |
| ASI Liveline...Burn-In Experience The background will clean up nicely. I find them more lively and forward sounding than other cables, but all told they are excellent. Give them some more time. | |
| Long Speaker cables I contributed to the thread Al referenced. After all my testing I found two very good cables that met my needs: OCOS and Supra Ply 3/4. I'm using the OCOS right now. My run is 5.5m. |