georgehifi
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| Help selecting a new preamp My Freya was noisy using tubes ( I heard they addressed this problem recently) Many hundreds more have not had this problem, they are spec’d at 115db s/n for the tube stage, as good as many $5k tube preamps, you obviously had dud tube/s in yours.... | |
| How good is an Oppo BDP-83 as a transport? To be used with Denafrips Ares DAC philjolet OP The Oppo has DVD mech/laser assembly, I have always found dedicated CD transports to sound the best for Redbook cd replay, something like the $600aud Cambridge Audio CXC cd only transport. https://www.tnt-audio.com/sorgenti/cambridge... | |
| Considering Gryphon Diablo 300 "OR" Simaudio 700iv2 ??? Gryphon Diablo 300 Cheers George | |
| Help selecting a new preamp if you enjoy a very loud clicking sound as you adjust the volumethen the Schiit may be just right for you. No one enjoys it, but it not as bad as you make out, and only while adjusting the level. It would be something "not to be enjoyed" if your ... | |
| OTL amps, my pick for the tube used. its been out of production for about 20 years. The tooling was destroyed with the plant 6C33 overloads the socket connections which can fail within the lifetime of the tube itself. I’ve asked Mike Matthews for his views on this, from what I und... | |
| Help selecting a new preamp rayburn_b OP I’m looking to simplify and improve sound quality over my existing preamp. With your sources OPPO 103, a Shiit D/A (at <100ohms output impedance) and poweramp Carver Crimson 275 (at 100kohms inputimpedance). A Schiit Sys at $49 w... | |
| Help selecting a new preamp rayburn_b OP I want to replace my Outlaw Audio 976 preamp with a stereo only preamp You can trial a Schiit Freya for a couple of weeks, they are so versatile, best mechanical volume control going around, let's you select between tube, solid ... | |
| OTL amps, my pick for the tube used. moofoo 6C33C I like the sound of these tubes - very clear, uncolored, balanced and almost no real sonic signature. That’s why I like them also when well implemented. Because it’s the closest to great Class-A solid state I have heard from a tube. ... | |
| beryllium vs diamond They do all that magical up/down, left/right, fore/back, beyond the boundaries imaging you claim only ESL’s can do. I’d say they do it better than any ESL No they don’t, I’m very good friends with the owner of Audio Marketing (importer) that impo... | |
| OTL amps, my pick for the tube used. Also, I couldn’t find any detailed specifications for output power or anything else for the OTL-150 at the Navison site (just some references to "coming soon"), although that has no relevance to my posts in this thread. Same here, I have no ide... | |
| beryllium vs diamond spinaker01 Manners, Georgehifi.....it maketh the the man. Fine to disagree, less so to berate and belittle.... I usually have, but there's no such thing with kosst, many will tell you.Cheers George | |
| beryllium vs diamond same way that rock can beat everything but paper in the game rock, paper, scissors, match. Yeah but I went "lizard spock" that beats them all. https://www.monkeyland.co.za/userfiles/mkboe/article/Largepics/ostrich_001.jpgCheers George | |
| I went from Class D to Luxman A/AB - And most of what you think is wrong @georgehifi please try class D amps by SPEC, Audio-Nec and Mola Mola before commenting further. Don't need to, they are all variations on a technology that has an achilles heel that can't be fixed.Even Mark levinson tried to get around the prob... | |
| OTL amps, my pick for the tube used. However, as best as I can tell from some somewhat blurry rear panel photos I found on the net there is a 5 amp fuse located immediately adjacent to the ME amp’s pendant power cord. Here is the ME1500 spec sheet for you Al (bmp) a bit clearer ma... | |
| OTL amps, my pick for the tube used. I have no interest in any amp that can not do at least 200 watts. Mike And hey! I also have no interest in any amp that can’t drive speaker loads that can vary from 2-32 ohms without becoming a tone control.I just started this post with those pic... |