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| Im going to regret my cable question @jl35 Cardas, more than most brands, has people who love them and those who do not like them at all... When that occurs, ask which year, type, and cable model they’ve owned and tried. If they are serious and actually tried 2-3 different ver... | |
| Im going to regret my cable question @moshif I mentioned Cardas because I also wanted to warm up my system a bit. I have the Clear Sky x4 and they did exactly that. No loss of detail or transparency. Just a really "meaty" sound. Thicker, not duller. @ghdprentice I recommend Card... | |
| Cary SLP 98 users, past and present, are there any left? @immatthewj apologize I probably should have clarified that early on, I did not run the gold pin EH, and cannot speak for those, I was referring more to the original EH which came stock in my 98 and those are metal pin, not gold pin. @billpete th... | |
| Cary SLP 98 users, past and present, are there any left? Hi @billpete and yes, that's what I was asking about. Good to know. Now that you are getting use to it the sound with the current tube set, there can be room to grow for sure. When my 98 was new, it came with the four standard EH tubes, it was oka... | |
| Cary SLP 98 users, past and present, are there any left? @billpete do you have another source to use to test with to help validate that either way? | |
| Using non-terminated speaker wire? Ten years ago I was evaluating two different sets of speaker cables in 8' & 6' lengths, and did not like the connectors on one of the pairs I custom made. Prior sets were all crimped and soldered. These were slide-on screw-clamp barrel connect... | |
| Traded Off my SLP-05 +1 to what @ozzy shared. I've found there seems to be sort of this compounding effect when you have 3 components in the chain that are all soft, smooth, more laid back on the top end. If the speakers are slightly warm and veiled over, there... | |
| Traded Off my SLP-05 @squitis - okay, imo I think either the Supra or Kimber Hero are just fine, and 1-2m length is good too. Did not mean to go down that rabbit hole, but good to know. Back to the new preamp, how far out til you receive the BHK preamp? | |
| Cary SLP 98 users, past and present, are there any left? Check this 2019 thread, keeping this in the family here on Agon. Some of the regulars and good old forum friend Almarg weighed in on this one too when he was around. It’s not as critical but some people follow it. See the part about different reco... | |
| Traded Off my SLP-05 okay so we’ve kind of concluded the prior general direction of those components all together is a big warmish and veiled over result so to speak. Let’s assume that for now.Not bad, just not as opened as you’d like it to be with your prior speakers... | |
| Cary SLP 98 users, past and present, are there any left? @billpete Do you leave yours in standby or off position? Best not to follow my advice on this. For you to decide. I turn mine off if I know I’m likely to leave the whole system off more than a few days. I do set to Standby for.a little bit bef... | |
| Cary SLP 98 users, past and present, are there any left? @billpete What about the input pots? What position do you keep yours in? Wide open. | |
| Cary SLP 98 users, past and present, are there any left? @billpete I have read through this on Cary Direct several times. It isn’t terribly thorough. It does say that the SLP 98 is phase inverted so that speaker wires should be reversed.?????????????????? Yes, my speaker wires are inverted / rever... | |
| Cary SLP 98 users, past and present, are there any left? @billpete if you are using the EH 6SN7s now, I'll share this. Like others, I used them to burn in new caps in the amp, and pulled them back out, placing them in their original tube boxes in the SLP-98 box and sitting in the rafters right now. ... | |
| Traded Off my SLP-05 If you tried 3 different SLP-05 preamplifiers and all of the tubes listed above, and it was still not "open" sounding enough for you, it's likely something else in the system going on or a combination of things together yielding a less open result... |