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| Cary SLI-80 or SLI-100? @ozzy62 yes with the stock tubes, stock caps, no upgrades or no hexfreds and stock rectifier tubes on the older generation pre/amps can be less exciting. A buddy who bought my big Cary V12R had the older F1 version Upscale had sponsored years ago ... | |
| Any Thoughts On These? Make sure you burn in those Motion 60s for a solid two weeks [at least] before making hard judgment. For my HT setup, and tested with 2ch too for fun, my five Motions sound much more clear, transparent, with more accurate bass after having broken ... | |
| Cary SLI-80 or SLI-100? Hi Jim, @river251A colleague and friend helped lead the design on the SLI-100 and incorporation of the KT150. I use to own the SLI-80 Signature in stock and highly modified forms. The ability to run KT88s and other tubes in UL or Triode mode was i... | |
| Any Thoughts On These? @knighttodd Hooked my ML 60xti to my PL EVO 400 amplifier today. Listening to some Pink Floyd Division Bell. These things are fantastic. RME ADI2 Dac Fs. Can’t be better.By chance were you running EL34 output tubes in your PL EVO 400 amp at the ti... | |
| Raven Blackhawk LE... am I going to be disappointed? Its definitely a preference kinda thing. I much prefer lower sensitivity speakers in the 90-93db range when paired with the right tube amplifier(s). It can be a more forgiving and less forced type of sound. Did the low-watt triode thing with 95+ d... | |
| Raven Blackhawk LE... am I going to be disappointed? If it does not work out as hoped and you want to keep your speakers, trade-up. If you like Raven, the "Shadow MK" amplifier paired with a really good preamp w/two sets of pre-outs would get the job done! AND you get to keep the lovely sounding Sal... | |
| Raven Blackhawk LE... am I going to be disappointed? Do not change to KT150s without doing a bunch of research on this tube type. I thought, for my garage system , that the extra power of the KT120s was worth the slight loss of humanity. I have never used KT150s, but have heard a number of users as ... | |
| Raven Blackhawk LE... am I going to be disappointed? @b_limoSo you came back over to the dark side, good for you :) A friend in common shared the news about your incoming Raven. I was about to send you a note to say this, just saw your reply and was about to share thoughts like 1) it will sound very... | |
| Tubes for Cary V12 amps. "Sometimes you get what you pay for and personally I avoid power amps with lots of output tubes for just that reason. Also why I got away from 300B amps the retubing costs."@jond while I sometimes miss and look back to my former amps, your note is... | |
| Tubes for Cary V12 amps. Agree, and KT77s would be nice in a Cary V12 / V12R, particularly when the old stock Audio1 coupling caps are swapped out for better ones. The amp really responds well to this, Mundorf EVO Supreme Silver-Gold even better. | |
| Tubes for Cary V12 amps. ^^^ With TWELVE output tubes per v12 amplifier, and he has three amps to deal with, NOS tubes is not a realistic option buying thirty six tubes. OP, If you can find sets of the stock Rubys, those particular shuguang EL34-BSTR output tubes are very... | |
| Just auditioned Martin Logan ESL vs 60xt Demoing with lame power / source / amplification at BestBuy-Magnolia stores is extremely limited.Take the same speakers home and evaluate on a worthy setup and hear a different result. | |
| Tubes for Cary V12 amps. @whataboutbob1 I use to have a V12R and YES the EL34-BSTR tubes are going to sound the best in that amp, truly. They are/were made by Shuguang for Ruby and sounded really nice. Heard various things about them having trouble rebuilding the factory ... | |
| KT150s in a Preamp Design? Hey I'm interested, and more so if you actually try it and compare KT150s to 6SN7s in a preamp. I run four 6SN7s in my preamp and four KT150s in my mono amps. Have wondered who's actually tapped the real potential and ceiling limit of a KT150 tub... | |
| Any Thoughts On These? When Magnolia consolidated their independent stores and shoehorned them back into the corner of BestBuy stores, seems like they lost their mojo for 2-channel audio displays and demos. Focus kinda went back to home theater and hand held gadgets. N... |