grannyring
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| CATSL1 best pre under 3K? Understand few are sold compared to the big or even medium boys. Few are willing to try gear from small one man companies . Too bad as the very best gear I have owned over the past 30 years comes from very, very small companies of one or a couple ... | |
| High End Audio Market Oppertunities An amplifier that has a Tube input stage and the option to choose tube or SS output all in the same amp. It's a tube amp and a hybrid SS amp! Choose which output you want depending on mood, speakers, power requirements, music type, etc... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Correct AudioL | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD AudioL5751 RCA black plates and Kevin Deal hand selected cryo treated Gold Loin, gold pin tubes. Both sound very good. Little less gain with the 5751, but that is a good thing for me. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Go figure. I replaced the Jenson paper caps in a set of Monoblock amps and a tubed DAC. They were nice caps, but not as dynamic, airy, and resolving as the Duelund or Jupiter copper foil. I found them a tad muffled and overly warm. The bass was a ... | |
| CATSL1 best pre under 3K? To buy a newer Dude. I have owned 3 Dudes in total. The latest has a better chassis, improved power supply, larger transformer .....Ha, I love the current Dude! See my system to see my super Dude! | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Well my Aesthetix Romulus uses 12ax7 tubes and sounds glorious! Used in gain stage and 6922 as output. Best digital I have owned. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil No, I live in the Midwest. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Oh boy...I would love to see and hear those AIT amps! I dream about them:) Most amazing DIY amp ever built in my book. | |
| CATSL1 best pre under 3K? Too bad Daveyf. In terms of your friend's system, if he had a power amp that had an input impedance under 60K, that was the issue. Dude as a high(ish) output impedance....poor match. Something was not quite right I am confident. Just been around t... | |
| CATSL1 best pre under 3K? Also for the poster I have owned and listened to more preamps over the past years than you could imagine. All in my system and room. Many costing up to $12,000 new as I have been fortunate to sell gear for several high end audio friends. Without e... | |
| CATSL1 best pre under 3K? DaveyFI challenge you to a dynamic preamp throw-down! If you are near MN I will bring my Dude over or you bring your CAT over my place. Are we on?! Dynamics are SOTA in my Dude. Never heard better in this area. I would love to be proven wrong or s... | |
| I would love some suggestions on great acoustic... Well, I am taking a loan out to buy all of this music. Well done Agoners. | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Accept your apology George. All is good and we can move on enjoying this site. | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Your Dude comment is strange and out of place. Sorry to see it and sorry you just will not have a nice and reasonable conversation and back and forth.My feelings and passion for audio go far beyond the box you placed me in. This is also true of ot... |