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| Mundorf (non-oil) Silver / Gold EVO MCap Supreme coupling caps in your tube amp ??? kdude66, boxer12, thanks for your replies and links. Most excellent. :)The post by Jon L on the audio circle link describes precisely what I was told by the folks who steered me to these more standard Gold/Silver EVO Mutdorfs based on what I am lo... | |
| Cary Audio: Tube preamp (SLP-98) paired with (SA-200.2) solid state amplifier? I found a source who tucked away a collection of NOS tubes, and bought a sextet matched set to get four for the SLP-98 plus two spares. It's hard to explain what "worth that" or "better" is without knowing more about the rest of the system. I'd sa... | |
| Amplifier Upgrade Decision After listening to a few different PASS, Threshold, Stasis amps popular in my area of NorCal over many years, a few local guys started trying other amps for different sound tastes; one is the Cary SA-200.2. I bought the new Cary 200.2 solid state ... | |
| Cary Audio: Tube preamp (SLP-98) paired with (SA-200.2) solid state amplifier? Update: Wow, after 200 hours of break-in seems the Cary SA-200.2 (solid state amp) is sensitive to different interconnect cables and it can produce different sounds accordingly, soft or brighter but never harsh. As a result, I’ve been messing with... | |
| Cary SLP98 + Rocket 88R F1 vs SLI80 Speaking of this preamp and Cary amps.. I sold my heavily upgraded SLI-80 Signature and bought the new SLP-98L tube preamplifier and Cary SA-200.2 (yes, solid state amp) that's "voiced" a bit like a tube amp. All I can say is WOW, if you want more... | |
| Cary Audio V12R It "depends". Results can vary greatly from one system to the next. I have an upgraded Cary V12R tube amp and the latest Cary SA-200.2 solid state amp. I just sold a very heavily upgraded SLI-80 Signature tube amp back to Cary's Certified progra... | |
| Cary Audio: Tube preamp (SLP-98) paired with (SA-200.2) solid state amplifier? Interconnect cable swaps: This Cary SLP-98L / SA-200.2 combo sure is sensitive to interconnect cable swaps. Brighter and more forward sound stage with good silver, softer and more gentle, different sound stage with good copper interconnects. Inter... | |
| I've decided to try Tubes aberyclark,Like you, I ran various B&K mosfet based amp systems for 25+ years and understand the interest in tubes if you like that warm B&K sound. The best was the ultra high current dual mono amps and last edition preamps before it all w... | |
| Cary Audio: Tube preamp (SLP-98) paired with (SA-200.2) solid state amplifier? UPDATE: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAHHHH ! At 80 hours of break-in, a good friend let me borrow a subset of his nice tube collection. Removed the stock harsh sounding stock EH 6SN7s tubes, started rolling. Settled on a quad set of NOS Sylvania 6SN7GTs. I... | |
| Cary Audio: Tube preamp (SLP-98) paired with (SA-200.2) solid state amplifier? Received my SLP-98 (tube) preamplifier and SA-200.2 (solid state) amplifier. Only have about 60 hours on both so far with stock tubes in the 98. A birdie told me don’t listen to either seriously until you have at least 80-100 hours on them and opt... | |
| tube pre amp plus solid state power amps? Revisiting and resurrecting this one year old thread after recently selling my all tube pre/amp ready to try an active full tube preamp in combination with a decent solid state amp voiced more on the "tube" side. All Cary Audio products. Hope to t... | |
| Cary Audio: Tube preamp (SLP-98) paired with (SA-200.2) solid state amplifier? Found something close to answer some of my general questions, https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/tube-pre-amp-plus-solid-state-power-amps | |
| Arcam irDAC break in time and sound changes? Update: I've left the irDAC on for the past week solid. Yep, definitely open, clean, detailed, sounds nice. I definitely have more than 100 hours of break in time on it and it sounds even better than when it had 10 hours on it. 0s/1s or not, for a... | |
| Arcam irDAC break in time and sound changes? I've read in several places now folks reporting 100-200 hours break in time which I find hard to believe on this type unit, but if it's true, I guess we'll see what we get once I get there. Really glad I decided to wait and get this DAC versus a c... | |
| Arcam irDAC break in time and sound changes? Hello Samac,Thanks. I just started leaving the irDAC on all the time just recently. Unfortunately I cannot leave my amps on all the time as they get pretty hot, but I'm definitely running one of my new tube amplifiers as much as I can to help spee... |