decooney
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| 12au7 tube? @audiojan Thanks everyone. I have a bunch of tubes incoming. Radiotechnique, Genalex Gold Lion, Brimar, Amperex. That's the way to do it. Do some nice pair comparisons, select a few vintage you like, and a few new/re-issue tubes to play when y... | |
| a 3 way design speaker with the ESS Heil type sound Hey @sputz If you have the funds and don’t care about Di-Pole AMTs, one of the best AMT implementations of the AMTs I heard at a show once, >> Gryphon <<. The lower models like the Pantheon 3-ways are are not as efficient, Gryphon Tr... | |
| a 3 way design speaker with the ESS Heil type sound @sputz ...ESS 3 ways with HEIL.. AMT3s are di-pole, the air motion transformer electrostatic diaphragm sound you are appreciating, the design, and driver configuration is not easily replicated today. I completely designed my own version ground ... | |
| 12au7 tube? Tried 22 different pairs of vintage 12au7s, and 6 pairs of new re-issues. Vintage best for me, 1965 Blackburn Plant Mullards if you like vintage. Stored now. New, PSVANEs are lasting longer than any of my former Gold Lyons. Get them curve trace... | |
| A little puzzled by my newly acquired Yamaha A-S801 I've read these comments before on the 801, then people moving up the stack to 2200, or even the venerable AS3200 for the newer designs. A friend is trying the new R-N2000A with tone controls and room correction, and he's a diehard tube amp guy. ... | |
| Best Used Tube Based Preamp $2k Or Under? @hightfall my friend had one for a year. Re-Sold it. He just wanted to try it for fun. No real "signature" that he commented about really - was a big collector of tube preamps and has owned and owns several of Dennis Had's Inspire Linestage units,... | |
| Best Used Tube Based Preamp $2k Or Under? Might as well toss Holger's preamps in the ring. Tone controls anyone? Aretha - 6SL7 https://www.erhard-audio.com/Aretha_MKII.html Europa - 6922/E88CC https://www.erhard-audio.com/Europa.html | |
| 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... |