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| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp Let's just say that before building my own tube creations I restored probably 300-400 pieces of vintage tube gear, including about 75-80 citation II amps, over 40 citation I preamps, and many Scotts, Fishers, Sherwoods, Macs, Marantz 8b, etc... I ... | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp @grannyring The preamp, and the matching amps are point to point wired, yes. The tube sockets are all mounted directly to the top panel in both pieces. The only pcbs are there to hold large film capacitors to facilitate mounting them securely. The... | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp You can make very nice xlr runs out of Duelund tinned stranded, but it is spendy these days and you are talking long runs. I use Paul's anticables in my system, but they are only 3-4 ft runs. If you are running 8-10 ft over to a powered speaker... | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp @fthompson251 Lynn and I designed the Raven and I have lived with all the prototypes and final version for many months and it has all the tube things you like, but is far better than any tube preamp I have ever built or heard. It throws a sound c... | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp If the Khorns are basically new models from Klipsch, I wouldn't dig into the crossover because, yes, you will void your warranty. Just enjoy them. I modded Cornwall IV and they had cheap caps in them and very cheapo sand resistors, including on... | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp @wsrrsw Fasten your seatbelt, that will be a VERY dynamic system. Have you rebuilt the crossovers on the Khorns? If not, there is improvement to be gained there. The Khorns are a wee bit bass shy below 50 Hz or so, but the amps will give you ... | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp @wsrrsw Yes, I heard someone bought the preamp in the last of the old style cases, and one of the last two pairs of amps in the old style cases. The amps are electrically the same and so is the preamp. Please report back once you have them up a... | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp I want to revisit what Lynn said about subtle content that is present in two channel recordings. The content that gives the ethereal sense of space, and the very subtle reverb that is present from recording techniques or actually added by the pro... | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp @sjsfiveo Yes, price has very little relationship to sound quality beyond a certain point. One walk through an audio show will make that abundantly clear. The Revelation series project was about designing the best sounding preamp and amps that w... | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp Thanks for the kind words! Working with Lynn has been a pleasure and I have increased my knowledge of tube circuits considerably since I met him.. He got me to consider "going outside the box". The Raven and Blackbirds are about leaving the b... | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp @jc4659 I can assure you the preamp sounds believable. The sound stage is entirely dependent on the recording. On most every recording except mono ones, the image in my system using the Raven and the matching Blackbird amps will always extend s... | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp @terrapin77 Thanks for posting. To me, qualities of the Raven are transparency, tonal correctness of instruments and voices, and that ethereal sound stage. The absolute blackness helps with all of that. It doesn't really sound like anything exc... | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp @jc4659 I see your phono stage also has xlr output, so you can run a fully balanced system, even with phono into the Raven, which is great. I would expect it to work well in your system. | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp Yes I think I would try the Linlai tubes. Your system is fully balanced, so the Raven should shine there. Please do post a review when you have put a few hours on it. | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp @jc4659 Yes, please do. What amps and source(s) are you planning on using with the Raven? |