ericjcabrera
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| Is the NHT xd System worth buying today? I don't know what you mean by 'still valid today' but I have heard the NHT Xd and would not hesitate to acquire the system if given the chance; advancement in technology notwithstanding. It's one of those things that stay with you for a long time,... | |
| 12AU7 Genalex or Psvane for Cayin Hybrid Integrated H80A BTW, for NOS, Upscale Audio is recommending Brimar over Mullard NOS. Anyone with Brimar experience? | |
| 12AU7 Genalex or Psvane for Cayin Hybrid Integrated H80A vasaudio,That would be nice; what do you recommend? So far I have had the OEM tubes that came when brand new & now Genelex Gold Lion, which have a smoother more dynamic sound. I welcome your recommendations; thanks in advance.ericjcabrera | |
| Genelec SAM active studio monitors for home use I agree; very cool, especially the hidden bass baffle. I am very curious to listen to these; my only experience with active monitors is with ADAM Audio, which I thought are quite astonishing for their size. I really like their tweeter a lot, but t... | |
| Your Favorite Female Vocal Track Please Sheryl Crow "Wildflower" | |
| Any good reasons to use transistor phono stage and line level preamp instead of tube ? I see & hear in my system no good reason to; why? I have tubes in my Phono Pre, CD player & in the preamp section of my Hybrid Integrated. SS takes it from there in the power amp section of said integrated. It is the best of both worlds &a... | |
| 12AU7 Genalex or Psvane for Cayin Hybrid Integrated H80A helomechOn second thought, please stick to new production tubes. Stay far, far away from NOS tubes, you should want nothing to do with them. They’re absolutely terrible!You're kidding, right? | |
| 12AU7 Genalex or Psvane for Cayin Hybrid Integrated H80A Wow, much food for thought here; thanks folks. Haven’t yet pulled the trigger on any 12au7 yet. Making phone calls on those NOS experts, but still open to differing opinions / observations.Very curious how a true NOS tube will fair in my system, s... | |
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| 12AU7 Genalex or Psvane for Cayin Hybrid Integrated H80A So for those who are recommending NOS, other than those already mentioned (Andy, Brent), who else are reliable & trustworthy? I do want to try NOS someday even though I feel my system is almost perfect in every aspect of sound quality I value.... | |
| 12AU7 Genalex or Psvane for Cayin Hybrid Integrated H80A tooblue,Thanks for the rec'; what others did you try before settling on Psvane?-E | |
| 12AU7 Genalex or Psvane for Cayin Hybrid Integrated H80A nitewulf,Apologies, I'm not sure what a phase splitter is, but the H80A is a hybrid with a TUBE preamp section & SS power amp section. The 2 tubes 12au7 are input tubes for the preamp section.-E | |
| 12AU7 Genalex or Psvane for Cayin Hybrid Integrated H80A Just now discovered Viva Tubes with their 12au7 offerings. I think I may prefer to order from them since they are in mainland US. I would rather not have to wait for weeks on end for products from HK. However, Viva, although they do carry Psvane b... | |
| 12AU7 Genalex or Psvane for Cayin Hybrid Integrated H80A johnss,How does the ’VANE’ compare to GL? Don’t know if GE 5814 is compatible w/ my H80A. I do feel GL is warmer than EH in my system. EH is ’harder’ by comparison - more listener fatigue; GL much less fatigue.auxinput,I do prefer the warmth of th... | |
| Best way to integrate a subwoofer into Luxman Preamp + L-509X Integrated system? Might I suggest using high level speaker outputs instead of low level pre amp outputs to your sub(s); if of course your sub(s) have speaker level inputs.In my case, since I did not have pre amp outputs from my integrated, I was forced to use speak... |