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| Gabriel Gold IC's are they really this good? If you are looking for an excellent IC at a very reasonable price you need to check out Steve's new Extreme MK2 - clean, clear, well balanced, and natural sounding. | |
| Cable & Interconnects for a Plinius 9200 ICs Audio Metallurgy - GA2 or GA 0's - used them with my 8200 - auctions run on Agon; Speaker cable - Signal Cable -Ultra; Power Cord - Audio Art Power 1 (for me the only PC that has made an audible difference in its relative price range). | |
| Can excellent tubes transcend modest amps? Not the expert, but you can put moderately priced NOS tubes in moderately priced well built amps and take the musical enjoyment up a seveal notches | |
| Do I need a power cable - if so what brand? Take a look at Audio Art Cable power cords - only one that made a noticable difference in my system at a reasonable price | |
| 6sn7 and 5u4 tubes I don't have your amp, but you might want to check with Brent Jesse - http://www.audiotubes.com/6sn7.htm; good selection, good prices ,honest advice - not afflated other than as a satisfied customer | |
| Best Budget interconnect cables for cd to preamp Might want to try the entering auctions for Audio Metalurgy Cables - very good cables | |
| Interconnect/Speaker cables Signal Cable or Audio Art Cable - both good bang for the buck | |
| CDP to DAC cable Suggest contacting Stephen Monte at Quest for Sound (A'gon Guild listing - I'm not affiliated but a happy customer) about IXOS digital cable | |
| cheap tube integrated for 4 ohm speakers Suggestion - Consonance Cyber 100 Sig - 50 wpc 6550 driven comes with EH 6550s , nice sounding amp, I switched over to SED6550s , seem to have a little 'authority' to me, but the EHs are good as well. Might want to check out closeout page on A'gon... | |
| Transport Upgrade If you are looking at DAC in the pricerangeof the Benchmark you might also want to check out the PS Audio Digi Link 3 (non-modded) , have it in my second system using an Arcam CD 72 a transport. The amp is a Consonance Cyber 100 Sig - very nice to... | |
| sweetest sounding ss integrated Portal Panache | |
| Budget USB DAC Mightconsider a Lite Audio DAC AM Modified - had one pretty good for the money Pacific Valvecarries the (not affiliated) | |
| DAC improvement System 1) Audio Analogue Paganini CD to April Music Stello DA220 Dac to either SoundQuest SQ 88 tube integrated orPlinius 8200 Mk2 integrated - Virtual Dynamic Testament Digital RCa. Previously using just PaganiniSystem 2) Arcam CD72 to PS Audio D... | |
| Digital Purchase Advice . . .DAC or New Player The PS Audio Digi Link 3 even without the mods will be a very good choice - purchased one for my second system using my Arcam CD72 as the transport - nice upgrade to my ears | |
| Which CD would you recommend? Haven't heard any of them , but just for info purposes if you'res erious about the Equinox I think that amusicdirect (Iam not affiliatd) may still be having a closeout on them, like 40% off list - had entertained getting one - bug to change also -... |