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| Supratek Owners Thread Thanks,Jack. The reason I asked is because looking at the photos Mick has posted currently on Agon, it’s not apparent: https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lis9d477-supratek-audio-chardonnay-tube#&gid=1&pid=2. Does what you have, assuming you... | |
| Don Sach's pre amp Has anyone tried Grant Fidelity's Treasure Globe 6SN7-SE? | |
| Supratek or Don Sachs - which way to go? Has anyone tried Grant Fidelity's Shuguang Treasure Globe 6SN7-SE? | |
| Supratek Owners Thread Thanks. One more question about that: where is the remote sensor located on the main unit?Has anyone tried Grant Fidelity's Treasure Globe 6SN7-SE? | |
| Supratek Owners Thread My Chardonnay is on the way. In the meantime, I need to make a quick decision about isolation. Would someone with a Chardonnay mind messaging me the dimensions (LxDxH, including tubes) of each of the pieces? Thanks,Gene | |
| Supratek Owners Thread Here’s Mick’s answer to the difference between Chardonnay and Cabernet, dual DHT/6SN7 option aside:As you know the law of diminishing returns applies here, its a bit hard to describe difference, but I’d say the Cabernets are just more pleasing , t... | |
| Supratek Owners Thread I got the same response from Mick. If you look at the reviews from roughly 15 years ago, there’s one that compared the two and found the Cabernet, or whatever it was called then, to be significantly more of the same. So I wonder what’s changed, an... | |
| Supratek Owners Thread My understanding is that the difference between the Chardonnay and Cabernet is not just the complexity of the power supplies, but in the quality (or price) of the components used within both sections, i.e., the kind that make a difference in sound... | |
| Supratek Owners Thread The Sauvignon is not a current model, at least per the website. I noticed the older (early) one being sold by Echo Audio in the States, but Mick said the cost of bringing it up to date + shipping would be more than the cost of a new Cabernet, whic... | |
| Supratek Owners Thread The thread was at head-fi and the response I got about where the LTA Microzotl preamps stand on a cool-to-warm continuum were either clearly "neutral" or hard to decipher (pg 7-8):https://www.head-fi.org/threads/microzotl-3-by-linear-tube-audio-tr... | |
| Supratek Owners Thread I have a a Chardonnay on order, but have not heard either company’s gear. What I do know is what others have said: 1) Supratek is tonally on the warm side, Microzotl is definitely “neutral” (I’ll look up the forum link later); and 2) Someone with ... | |
| Supratek Owners Thread @ironsienna How old was your version of the Chardonnay and what differences did you hear going to the Sauvignon, with speakers that is, as I don't use headphones? When I asked, Mick described them as different, depending on one's tastes, without b... | |
| PrimaLuna Dialogue Preamp = emotionless? The MZ2 would be functionally inadequate for my purposes. Rather, I considered the MZ3 seriously, asking on a thread in another forum site where it stands on the cool-warm spectrum, my preference being for a bit of the latter. The unanimous respon... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century They come with a remote and both have volume knobs. Here's what Mick said when I asked about the difference:"The circuit is the same, it uses expensive transformers and capacitors. Its different sounding, whether its worth the extra expense is sub... | |
| PrimaLuna Dialogue Preamp = emotionless? I haven’t found the home version of the ATCs, in my case the SCM19A, to be surgical (a TAS reviewer didn’t either). Plus, I’ve got AM Ultimate fuses in there, which are on the warm, liquid side, along with using PS Audio power cords and MG Audio I... |