jafox
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| 30 ft rca run too long for a phono to preamp? Just to chime back in here, I ran a 30 feet RCA Purist Dominus IC from line stage to amps for a couple years and had no hum/rfi issues at all. What people echo from what they have read vs. what they have experienced are very different things. Push... | |
| 30 ft rca run too long for a phono to preamp? I would first do everything possible to make things work for the turntable at its current location. If this is not possible, I would suggest moving the preamp along with the turntable to the new location. The phono stage's voltage output (at line ... | |
| XLR Connector Comparison Dave_b - You paid $6k for those cables or they "retailed" for $6k? I guess I will have to buy a pair of these Monster cables and put them up against the Jade Audio cables. 8-) | |
| Audio Research SP 11 vs Audio Research SP 16 For what the SP-11 seems to be selling on the used market, $2000-2200, the LS5 and PH2 can be had for only a few hundred $$ more, and this pairing is far beyond the performance of the SP-11. If you do not use a phono source, then no need for the P... | |
| More of a Tube Sound In a Tube CD player Lithojoe, I don't see the value to bash Tvad here. He provides many great contributions here. His observations on relative tube differences in the above post is an example of this. You could have contributed to the thread by sharing an example or ... | |
| Review: Aria WV5 XL (Line Stage only) Tube preamp Sherod - Thank you for the tip here. This may be just what I have looked for from the SA-2 to the Aria. I will give these a try and report back vs. the Silent Source Silver Signature.Bob - I did some testing tonight on the Rebuilt vs. Stock SA-2. ... | |
| What do you see as the downside of tubes? Dgarretson, Thanks for your input here. I had the PH2 for 6-7 years and loved it. This was the one sleeper in the ARC product line that truly was an outstanding product. I only "upgraded" to the BAT P10 as I wanted more phono gain and benefitted w... | |
| What do you see as the downside of tubes? I have tubes only in my DAC. All the layering, spatial clues, and tonality of the tubes are expressed,You just keep on convincing yourself of this.I tried the H20 amp in my system a few years ago and the one thing that the old and lowly backup Cou... | |
| Need to be educated re: MC Step-up transformers Flyfish, I am going to stay clear of all the technical discussion here. As valuable as it can be, the bottom line is how it all sounds to you.I have been running with a Clearaudio Accurate for several years now. With this previously straight into ... | |
| What do you see as the downside of tubes? In defense of Dave_b here, I understand what he has written. As a tube diehard here, I have owned many tube preamps (ARC SP-10, LS5, BAT P10/31SE, Aesthetix Io/Callisto Sig) in the last 25 years that did indeed have a layer of grain and haze compa... | |
| Review: Aria WV5 XL (Line Stage only) Tube preamp Hi Bob,It's been several months since I had the stock SA-2 in the system. With the latest round of system tweaks, tubes and cables, I will go back to comparing this to the rebuilt SA-2.I have since replaced the 20+ year-old MIT330 IC from the SA-2... | |
| Review: Aria WV5 XL (Line Stage only) Tube preamp Hello Bob,Shortly after my last posting here, another Aria owner informed me to try another tube in the line stage. He was spot on. I'd share which tube this is but I need to buy 100 first before my recommendation here causes these to triple in pr... | |
| VAC Signature Preamplifier mkII The Eclipse models came out because the Io and Callisto signature products were rapidly falling behind the new models by the competition and not because $500 in new parts in the Saturn products put them just behind the Jupiter products. I have see... | |
| VAC Signature Preamplifier mkII Twin cities here. | |
| VAC Signature Preamplifier mkII The new [janus] signature is a whole different animal. They sound just as good as the IO.As some parts updates in the new Janus will no doubt improve the performance, no matter what is done here, the Janus will NEVER have the magic of an Io or Cal... |