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| Best tube preamp for Quicksilver V4 tube mono's (newest KT150 version) @mesch Forgot to add, I have the Aric Audio Special. That Aric Special seems like a nice little preamp. Attention to detail, caps, adj gain feature too - nice. It’s great to see folks trying different preamps with the QS amps to get the best out o... | |
| KT150 to KT120..or KT120 to KT150 @dsholl1 There is just something about the KT150 I find too Hi-Fi sounding and cerebral.I wouldn’t characterise the Kt120 as dry at all. I think it’s a blend of a EL34 and a good 6L6. It just sounds a bit warmer tonally to me than the KY150 which ... | |
| KT150 to KT120..or KT120 to KT150 Check with the amp designer if you can before buying KT150s, fwiw. Test-1: In reverse, just for grins I tried KT120s in my monoblock amps specifically designed and optimized to run KT150s. Day-1 the amps were designed to run KT150s, big transforme... | |
| Extra power or cleaner power? Exactly. hilde45 also shared in another thread - he’s starting in a smaller room vs. future larger room (maybe), and this is where less vs. more power topic came up too relative to people asking about power and room size relative to his selected 9... | |
| Extra power or cleaner power? @hilde45Some (atma-sphere, decooney) have suggested on this forum that even a 60 wpc tube would be great for these speakers. So, here’s my question — As you may recall, the future-proof savings $ suggestion was based on some of the sidebar questio... | |
| Best tube preamp for Quicksilver V4 tube mono's (newest KT150 version) @fjn04 04-18-2018 8:12amI had the balanced and unbalanced V4’s. I really enjoyed these amps, though I have never heard the KT 150. I tried an EAR 912, and I can tell you from a sound and synergy perspective, it was a good match. I believe I had th... | |
| Mundorf Silver Caps 3rd Install in different amps. Ignored nay-sayers, worth every penny. >>Mundorf EVO Supreme SilverGold SESG (non-oil) coupling capacitors<< Installed in my last two tube amplifiers and now installed in my Monoblocks KT150 tube ampli... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? Exactly, and there is at least one 30wpc Class A solid state amp that could potentially displace my current mono tube amps but won’t let myself near it. Well, maybe....ugh :) | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? I'll never forget the first time I swapped out my beloved 200wpc mosfet solid state amp (in disrepair) for a custom hand made 17-watt loaner tube amp - trying it on my speakers at home. Woah... | |
| Tell us about your KT150 experience For what it’s worth...Comparing, re-tubing an older KT88 based amp that will "accept" KT150s vs. an amp which was designed day-1 (with larger transformers, and higher plate voltages) to natively run KT150s optimally, "can" "sometimes" yield a diff... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? @hilde45 Seems like a worthy step-up on efficiency from the 84db Wow1s to the 90db SS 6Ms, opens up a few more amplification options for sure. While we bounced all over the place on your post, you got a lot of feedback and options to try. One la... | |
| Best 6NS7 Preamp for a Pass Labs XA25 amp There are plenty of used low cost solid state preamps that offer “clarity”, if that’s what your looking for. The original post reads “Best 6SN7 Preamp...”Few or none of those SS kits will match the musicality of a really good 6SN7 tube based pream... | |
| Best 6NS7 Preamp for a Pass Labs XA25 amp >> Cary SLP-98 tube preamplifier with good 6SN7s << is also a "fairly popular" combination according to Nelson himself in an email I received from him last summer. He indicating having several customers with this combo, fwiw. A good ... | |
| Who Offers a Highly Musical Preamp using a 6SN7 tube and a remote? "Bad Boys" have been expensive for a long time, so I get that. NOS Chrome Domes and GEs aren’t so expensive at all (yet) and sound great."True. One can find lower cost tubes. As long as one buys from a reputable tube dealer with good test equipmen... | |
| My personal amp shootout on Vandersteen Quatros @bigboltz...staying up way too late playing record after record, followed by hours of Tidal. If I had to pick one, it would be two. Quicksilver Mono 120's. I look forward to trying different tubes in these,as well. Fortunately, the Quickies and t... |