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| An Audio Conversation with ChatGPT Thanks Ralph @atmasphere I suspect that's the case on my amp. Checking other new amps too just for grins. Just spoke to Ken at Pass Labs today. They are 20 minutes up the hill from me. Asked the exact same question. How does Class A sound on ... | |
| R2R next? Don't like ESS @jfrmusic Switched from the Benchmark DAC3 with ESS to the MSB Discrete DAC R2R. Difference is night and day. Smooth, liquid analog like. No Digital characteristics. Yep, me too. Great specs on the BM DAC3B. Totally un-engaging for me. Was q... | |
| An Audio Conversation with ChatGPT @atmashphere decooney If the amp is at all competent you won’t know/hear any transition. IOW there isn’t a percentage. Good to know. And this could open the door for me to look at other Class A/AB amps I’d potentially consider for the future... | |
| Best Used Tube Based Preamp $2k Or Under? @mbmi The best is AUDIO-GD Tube preamp. They are very musical and a great value. Best of Luck on the Warranty and repairs, and shipping back and forth if you live in the USA. Here you go, enjoy, "to and fro!" http://www.audio-gd.com/War... | |
| R2R next? Don't like ESS Having tried Burr-Brown dacs (some are nice), later on some different ESS chipped designs, and various with Phillips chip sets, if you stay with chip based dacs, the >> designer and special designs is where the real differences are <<... | |
| Best Used Tube Based Preamp $2k Or Under? @whitestix Its Tubes4Hifi... They offer that new V23-K1 too, for $1925 assembled, with remote, has 6SN7s and rectifier tube with caps shown, (scroll down) https://www.tubes4hifi.com/SP14.htm new V23-K1 | |
| Best Used Tube Based Preamp $2k Or Under? @nightfall And yes, the quad of 6SN7's that the Cary SLP-98 uses concerns me a bit because of what a costs for a nice quad of those NOS tubes. I have a set of very nice 4+2 [quad plus two spares] of 1960s Sylvania 6SN7GT Black Plates stored a... | |
| Best Used Tube Based Preamp $2k Or Under? @hilde45 Second, the Cary preamp has SIX 6SN7 tubes. That’s a lot of tubes. The Dehavilland has one. Slight correction, fyi. Requires FOUR (4), not SIX. The other smaller 12xx7 are for phono section, if you choose to have phono. Yep, i... | |
| Best Used Tube Based Preamp $2k Or Under? @nightfall Thanks also to those who have recommended Cary SLP-98’s, another unit I was considering, though they seem to be selling a bit over my $3k limit. And the Modwright LS100 is also a great recommendation you provided. I once owned on... | |
| PSVANE Mfg Co replaced my older 6SN7 CV-181 TII tubes @marco1 maybe we can talk offline later about some your Qs. In short, my replacements were referred to as "Art Series" by one of the leaders at PSV Mfg who approved my replacement and ensured I received a good tested matched pair. They do not hav... | |
| PSVANE Mfg Co replaced my older 6SN7 CV-181 TII tubes @marco1 will be curious if they open up a little more in the next few weeks or not. My new replacement PSVANE 6SN7s sound a little better in my tube preamp after a tad more time on them. They are not overly uber-detail, which is great for my ta... | |
| Looking for advise regarding Rogue M180’s @buellrider97 ...I was considering Quicksilver before I went low power and Mike Sanders stated they need 100 wpc with tubes. At the time the KT monos were 50-60 watts ? He strongly recommended the 100 watt monos... There are several different v... | |
| I find myself "tuning out" anymore.....is the magic fading? Step away from all of it for six months. Find another hobby to enjoy to fill in for a while. I did this a year ago for different reasons. It helped to enjoy it again later. | |
| An Audio Conversation with ChatGPT @atmasphere You can’t hear the ’transition’ and the amp isn’t any more linear in the ’class A’ region than it is a few Watts above that. Good to know and I’ve wondered about this, and any discernible differences just before / during / after tra... | |
| Looking for advise regarding Rogue M180’s To @buellrider97 I just read the specs of the 4312A, https://jblpro.com/en-US/site_elements/4312a-information Apologize, I missed which speaker you would use above with the Rogue amp, and assumed you were using the efficient ZUs, and flew right b... |