decooney
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| Interconnects and non-believers If the rest of the system and speakers are mediocre, better cables likely won’t make a notable difference. Probably not worth the investment. With more revealing audio systems, there can be a notable difference. Over the years I had tried various ... | |
| Pre amps cost vs. value ... what I discovered last month. kw6Brian pls try a Linear tube audio Micro z2 or Audible Illusion L3A or Cary Slp-98! ThanksInteresting I wondered the same reading this thread, and with those exact same units, and not the most expensive either. None of my own modified Cary tube ... | |
| Ess Company I was there mid '83 at Oates at the main bldg far area assembly. Don't recall a cafeteria. That must have been part of the glory days there before my time I guess. I heard stories about how it was before I got there, but missed some of that fun s... | |
| Ess Company I worked at ESS in the early 80s on the assembly line. I still play a bit with custom builds today. More recently, last week I had the opportunity to evaluate some of the newer version speakers made by ESS and visited SoCal location a few months... | |
| Bookshelf speakers that sound good on a SHELF or SIDEBOARD I have some Totem Model 1 Signature speakers. Original owner. Includes two Totem Signature main speakers, a center channel, and standard model 1s too. Initially they were used for reference validation, and now saved for a future 2nd den room refer... | |
| Triode or Ultralinear mode crwindy, the results partly depend on your speakers. What speakers do you have? db?My Cary SLI-80 and Cary V12R tube amps definitely do not sound "dead" in Triode mode. I design/build my own custom speakers for fun and have tried various combos. ... | |
| Full-sounding SS amps (besides Pass) The new Cary SA-200.2 solid state amp has been good for me so far. However, I’m cheating a little by using a Cary SLP-98 tube preamp in front of it. :) Full, huge, sound. The detail/softness can be tuned with interconnects too. Cary Audio and anot... | |
| For tube sound, which is more important: preamp or power amp? Which is more important - you ask? It’s kinda like ice cream, it's about different flavors and what you like in the end. I was an all solid state owner for too long. Should have tried tube preamps sooner than I did several decades later. Today, I ... | |
| Cary Audio: Tube preamp (SLP-98) paired with (SA-200.2) solid state amplifier? After five months of running the Cary V12R tube amp in Triode mode with recent cap upgrades to the new Mundorf Silver-Gold caps, I decided pull the V12R and put the SA-200.2 solid state amp back in rotation for a while. Wow, had forgotten how nice... | |
| Looking for help retubing Cary V12R mono blocks I was kind of thinking about replacing my Ruby EL34BSTR tubes just to try something else in the V-12R, then a local dealer friend with the same amp at home recommended I keep trying different front-end tubes to realize a bigger change, and perhaps... | |
| Are future improvements in Amp/PreAmps slowing to a crawl? Now days it seems anything gets copied or is a copy of something else. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Big-Aluminum-Chassis-PASS-Class-A-Power-Amplifier-Enclosure-DIY-Case... | |
| Mundorf (non-oil) Silver / Gold EVO MCap Supreme coupling caps in your tube amp ??? Receive the Silver/Gold (non-oil) caps. They are smaller than I expected. Gold wires coming out. Waiting for my tech to do install in a few weeks. | |
| Nuforce STA200 It's cool you could find a replacement for the old B&K. My former B&K FET amps sounded great for a few decades and I'm not sure if parts inside degraded over time due to heat or what but I replaced my 2ch/3ch dual mono amps with Outlaw Au... | |
| Mundorf (non-oil) Silver / Gold EVO MCap Supreme coupling caps in your tube amp ??? UPDATE: Doing more research and getting updates about these particular Mundorf Supreme Oil vs S/G non-oil caps, found this. Heat is definitely an issue with my tube amp with 12 output tubes and 4 pre-driver tubes. Runs hotter. This was on the Dyna... | |
| Mundorf (non-oil) Silver / Gold EVO MCap Supreme coupling caps in your tube amp ??? Kenny / kdude66,I re-read your reply and viewed the link you sent. Very good, this helps me to place the Mundorf Silver/Gold EVO caps among others following the sound description provided in the review. I'm curious about various differences you ... |