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| Counterpoint upgrade or Virtue Audio? Mike indeed is doing updates but only on some items as shown on his site. However, I think you would do better if you sold your existing Counterpoint items and used this money along with the money you would spend to update these and look for deals... | |
| Audio Research Preamp Experts? If you don't care about phono performance, it makes no sense to chase something like the SP-6, 8 and 10. They were outstanding in their days with phono, but their line stages are dreadful compared to the clarity, lower noise and greater dynamics o... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review Hi Earflappin: I'm in San Clemente. I'm loving it....the weather and just a few minutes from the beach. I grew up in So Cal but it feels kinda strange to be living here all these years later. I won't get settled into a house here until next summer... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review Great review John. So nice to see your contributions here again.It's great to see that the NWO design has successfully incorporated the ECC182 tubes. The ECC99 was dreadful in the Denon APL player. There is no way I would ever go back to that afte... | |
| ARC Tube preamp suggestions none of the Audio Research linestages short of the Ref. 3 fit that description.WRONG! The LS5 is way beyond the other line stages here when it comes to lush and warmth. The LS2 and LS16 are sterile as h*ll. The LS7/LS8 are good performers but were... | |
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| Pre Amp Wars/Advice Good stuff that Counterpoint gear. The 5.1 has a cult following and for good reason. Other products such as the SA2 had similar issues with the PS. I got my SA2 PS rebuilt with updated parts and the wimpy external transformer replaced with the Pli... | |
| The Hub: high end audio News, Events and Gossip Wow, what a story about David. I had a few business transactions with David and he is one of the nicest guys out there. The first part of that paragraph was so scary. Thankfully he is doing much better.John | |
| Review: Aria WV5 XL (Line Stage only) Tube preamp Hi Ron,Thank you for your kind words here. I saw a few great deals on the Lamm LP2 here but I noticed its gain was not a good fit with my MC cartridges in the 0.3 to 0.5mv output. The ARC PH7 was indeed another product I was considering but I was ... | |
| Counterpoint NPS 400 w/ Electrostats One of my favorite audio values out there is the NPS400. It so severely embarrassed the ARC CL150s I had been using before. The NPS400 controlled Maggie 3.3 and 3.5 that I owned and loved for many years. The Wolcott mono amps brought on a little m... | |
| Tube preamp for techno and other bass-heavy music? From my experience with BAT, Aesthetix and CAT line stages, the CAT really excels at the frequency extremes. Incredible bass extension and authority. | |
| Convert cartridge output voltage to db gain Congratulations John. Good to hear the noise is gone. I had serious hum issues with my system when I used the Jade Hybrid IC (unshielded) from Counterpoint head amp to Aria preamp. I quickly learned that only a shielded cable would work here. But ... | |
| Review: ALLNIC HT 2500 Head Amplifier Nuvistor Tube preamp It's great to see another tube head amp product finally on the market. After I got the Aria WV5 preamp, this with its built-in Sowter SUT's significantly outperformed the Aesthetix Io and Callisto signature products. But I knew there was more pote... | |
| Convert cartridge output voltage to db gain Actually, the equation is: db = 20Log10(Av), where Av is the voltage gain (Vout/Vin). Vin is the input signal (your cartridge output of 0.24mv) to the phono stage. Ultimately you want a line level of 0.5 to 1.0v from the phono stage's output to ma... | |
| Could tube rectifier make have impact on sound Hello,I have a lot of experience rolling tubes in Aesthetix, CAT, Manley and Aria gear with 12ax7, 6922, 12au7, but not the EL84 until I got a Counterpoint SA-2 MC head amp. It had a Sovtek tube in this socket. I tried the Tele EL84 and was vey di... |