immatthewj
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| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? Shirley you must know that this flies against common wisdom that pairs tube preamps with solid state power amps. @mambacfa , I cannot find the post in which Shirley weighed in on this one. | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? Seems to me the preamplifier tubes Carry the most weight when dealing with the sonic signature. This has been my experience, except in the case where the tubes in my amp were getting worn out & tired. | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? @akgwhiz , it is always good to have spares. | |
| Finally upgrading my amp For the life of me, I do not know what happens on this site when I try and fail to paste a link (I am not at all computer literate) but here is the other link I tryed to paste above: https://www.musicdirect.com/equipment/amplification/integrate... | |
| Finally upgrading my amp . . . for " a few dollars more" ($3200) here is a EL84 based Luxman (less power) from MD, and it has a phono stage! https://www.musicdirect.com/equipment/amplification/integrated-amp/luxman-sq-n150-tube-integrated-amplifier/ and for the ... | |
| Finally upgrading my amp @jjbeason14 , I think this is actually the same integreated, but new, from MD for $2300; and looking at the specs section (which does not look the same when I click on "specs" of the "open box") it says it is 60 wpc, not 30 wpc. https://www.mu... | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? . . . I also meant to say that although I personally never heard huge sonic differences when I was going back & forth with different HEALTHY output tubes in my first two 6550 based amps (I have never rolled tubes in my present EL34 based amp a... | |
| Finally upgrading my amp You also might takea look on Music Direct and plug in "integrated" into the search box (as I just did) and see if anything comes up in your price range that piques your interest. The beauty of MD is that they have a 60 day audition period, but I ... | |
| Finally upgrading my amp @jjbeason14 , if you love your current speakers (in this case your B&Ws) putting some better electronics in front of them will make you love them even more. I have an ancient (30 year old) pair of B&W 805s (Matrix’s) and I have played aro... | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? . . . what a representative from the sales department at Cary Direct once told me (the Cary people will actually talk to you on the phone if you want to buy something) when I called to inquire about the Amperex Bugle Boy 6DJ8s that Cary Direct was... | |
| Best Covers . . . and now I remember buying a Tom Russell CD (Indians, Cowboys, Horses And Dogs) for his cover of Lily, Rosemary, And The Jack Of Hearts. | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? I will preface what I am going to type about JJs and EHs by emphatically stating that I do not have the golden ear, I do not own a tube tester, and I make no claims whatsoever to be a tube or audio guru. My current preamp (SLP 05) came with six E... | |
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. Now I guess I am going to have to go back and check my spades. (I am bi-wired, so at the amp end I actually do have a pair of bananas and a pair of spades.) But I cannot ever recollect any of my spades coming loose. I tighten them as tight as I... | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? We have one answer that says power tube> signal tubes and another that says signal tubes>output tubes. Hmmm. . . . and actually, it looks as if it was two answers for outputs>signals versus one answer for signals>outputs. . . . | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? @hilde45 , I am only relating to OP what I was told by Andy of Vintage Tubes many moons ago, and what my own experience was with replacing Svetlanta 6550s with NOS Tunsol 6550s. I do not claim that either Andy's advice or my own experience is go... |