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| Thiel Owners The Ayre VX-5 now has about 50 hours. Initially the 2.4s revealed the "new amp" pre break-in roughness in its presentation especially in the upper frequencies. We are all aware our Thiels are extremely good at revealing upstream equipment's poss... | |
| Ayre owners and preamp options: seeking advice "drrsutliff: if you are using a mc cartridge with yours, what is its output? Can you hear tube rush at medium loud listening levels?"Cadenza Black - 0.3mv output with no tube rush issues. | |
| Thiel Owners The VAC is listed for sale, but have not received an acceptable offer yet. I may have the opportunity to retry it, but I like this new direction a lot. Tubes in the preamp and phono section remain. | |
| Thiel Owners Sitting here today beginning the break in period of my new Ayre VX-5 Twenty into my Thiel CS2.4 Delivered from factory to my dealer on Thursday and I picked it up that evening. Put a few hours on these past few nights just enjoying the process. ... | |
| Ayre owners and preamp options: seeking advice I am using a VAC Renaissance Mk3 pre with phono in front of my Ayre VX-5 Twenty with excellent results. | |
| General Initial Impressions--Genalex Gold Lion KT88 Reissue I agree the GL KT88s needed at least 100 to 150 hours to sound their best in my VAC amp. I actually removed them around 60 hours thinking they might have been a poor choice at the time. Listened to my KT88SC tubes for a while and then retried th... | |
| Power tubes for the VAC 300.1 Call VAC and talk to Brent or Kevin. They will give you honest insight into what is presently working well. Previously they stocked and recommended the Shugie KT88SC but production quality became an issue. | |
| Thiel Owners The amp currently employed for my Thiel 2.4s is a 100 watt per channel VAC PA100/100 that was upgraded a few years ago. With the choice of an 8, 4, or 2 ohm speaker tap off the transformers this amp performs amazingly well and with Audience 24AU S... | |
| Best cart. for a Origin Conqueror MK3C arm? I have an Origin Live Illustrious Mk3c tonearm. My last two cartridges have been Ortofon Cadenzas (Bronze and Black). Excellent matches IMO. I also have and older Benz Ebony which performs well also. I have received recommendations for the Kise... | |
| Origin Live Turntables? I am on my second OL table and third OL tonearm. The first was an Aurora Mk2 with a OL Silver mk2 tonearm. The Aurora was my first belt drive TT replacing an Optonica RP3636 DD that I had purchased new in 1978. Over time I upgraded the power sup... | |
| Peter Frampton Acoustic Classics Picked it up a short time ago. It's still in my to be cleaned stack, but based on your review it is moving to the top. | |
| Audience Adept Response Conditioner?? I'm using the Audience aRp2 TO for my VAC amp and preamp. Excellent results and very pronounced difference when I have experimentally removed and reinserted it into the system. Also us an entire Audience web to wire the system. Enjoy. | |
| Thiel Owners Listening to my pair of Thiel CS2.4s connected by Audience AU24SE to the 4ohm tap of my phi upgraded VAC PA100/100. | |
| Tone arm upgrade I moved from an upgraded RB300 to an Origin Live Encounter 3c and have been very pleased. | |
| Thiel Tweeter issue Have you contacted Thiel? They recently rebuilt the tweeter/midrange driver for my CS2.4 I contacted them by email, received a RMA number, and sent the driver to Lexington, KY. 48 hours after they received it they had it ready to ship back. Worth ... |