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| Heard a SOTA and I am pumped to get mine goin Sit,Any advice on tweeks and grounding you can offer? Feel free to email me if you like. | |
| phono preamp advice At your budget the K&K Audio phono stage should be considered. Also, a couple other options are Decware ($1400) and the Hagerman Coronet ($1k). All of these are tube designs and except for the Decware, one piece units. The Decware is quite com... | |
| Tube Amp Around $1000 Cary's are classic in my opinion. They have the lush mids and tend to sacrifice a little on the extremes. Some call them warm and fat. One thing for sure, they have the Cary house sound for their sonic signature. It's pretty noticeable so if it's ... | |
| Heard a SOTA and I am pumped to get mine goin I owned a SOTA Star with the separate power suppply and vacuum pump. The best thing about owning it is that rather than having to go out and replace it for a few thousand dollars or more with a new TT, I was able to have SOTA refrurbish and upgrad... | |
| How does Berning ZH270 compare to Cary Cad211 AE ? I like the analogy. It's got me wondering how a Berning would sound with a Joule LA-100 MkIII preamp, or whether I should save up for the Joule amps. They come around used around $6k or so. | |
| Transformer based passives vs passive stepladder Paul K - Funny, the Joule uses OA2 tubes as well, along with a pair of 6EM7 in the power supply. The signal path has a 5751 and 6350 for the mu follower. It is a pretty low gain preamp, but my amp is 30db and .8V sensitivity. I also have no issue ... | |
| Please Help Good advice from all so far. I'll add my two cents worth. For the one box the Cary 308T or 303/200 would be my choice if I went that route. For you it would depend on whether you're into tubes or not. However, like Artizen65, I would recommend the... | |
| ... Newbie looking for sonic heaven with SETs... In the not so distant past I had evealuated SET amps. I cam to the conclusion that I was not ready to give up my 88db efficient Spendor 1/2e speakers so I ended up with a custom built solid state 225 watt amp. I am happy with that decision but had... | |
| Help Cary Rocket 88 or Primaluna Prologue 5 The Rocket operates in A triode (30 watts) and AB ultralinear (60 watts). I haven't heard the Prima Luna, but having owned several pieces of Cary gear I'm pretty biased towards the Rocket. | |
| Transformer based passives vs passive stepladder Atmasphere - so are you saying that EVS and Endler, by virtue of the fact they are passive attenuators at the input of the amplifier, are immune from artifact associated with other passives as a result of eliminating the IC? Bear in mind I love my... | |
| Next Turntable I have a SOTA Nova Series V and am very happy with it. If I had to do it over again I would look very hard at Galibier Design. I was very impressed with the table when I heard it. It was set up with a Schroeder tonearm and ZYX cartridge. | |
| TT set up question I have used the Wally Skater in the past to set my anti-skate on my Kuzma Stogi tonearm. I found it interesting that the factory recommended setting based on my cartridge VTF and the Wally results were different, by quite a bit. I confirmed the Wa... | |
| Transformer based passives vs passive stepladder I don't know if what I am about to say will answer your question or help you, but I am in the same boat you are right now. I am looking at and trying out a lot of passive devices. I have looked at the following so far:LuminousGoldpointWelborne Lab... | |
| Alpha-core advise? They went for that deal when I purchased from them. I tried the MI-2 and Python bi-wire and kept the MI-2. Very nice folks to deal with and prompt refund on the returned cables. | |
| Which Phono Pre to upgrade to? Decware is an excellent suggestion. I had one in here and compared it to the Whest and Hagerman Trumpet. It held it's own even though I selected the Hagerman in the end. Steve Decker is great to work with too.I might also suggest you check out the... |