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| First tube roll: Which to change? Listen for a few months? If you knew what was in store for you to improve your amp, you will not wait at all this long. After a week or so of casual listening to burn in the amp, you should be able to sit down for an hour or so with your favorite ... | |
| Tubes in the preamp's power supply -how important? Huge indeed. My experience reflects the same with Aesthetix and even more so with the Counterpoint and Aria products. I recently replaced a Sovtek EL84 in a rebuilt Counterpoint SA-2 with a Valvo EL84 and was mightily impressed with the added smoo... | |
| Best tubed pre-amp w/phono stage for ss amps? It's tough enough to find a top-performing line stage with the requirements as stated by Rich121. But to find it all in a full-function preamp rapidly narrows the field. There is no consensus on how to handle the MC gain stage. Some use step-up tr... | |
| What happened to my EL84 tube? Contact this guy for your tube! | |
| Review: Aria WV5 XL (Line Stage only) Tube preamp Hello Jazzdoc,Wow, those are some serious questions.1: The line stage is truly a new experience for me. For now, I can not imagine an improvement over this without going to an insane cost. With its support of so many tube types, it takes a long ti... | |
| Review: Aria WV5 XL (Line Stage only) Tube preamp Mrmb - Had I been in your shoes, knowing what I have learned about various line stages the last year or so, I would have focused on this link in your system rather than a change from the JL1 to JL3. I suspect that the CAT amps in any version are q... | |
| Benefit of Tube Dampers/Coolers on 6H30? Eee3, I did not say I did not hear a 6H30 difference. I said the difference was minimal compared to the major differences between 6922/6DJ8 for which you related to. Please note again that I wrote "claims of major differences", and not, "claims of... | |
| Benefit of Tube Dampers/Coolers on 6H30? Nos 6h30's are much better than the stock ones, just as nos 6922,6dj8,7308's are considerably better than stock onesMy experience with the 6H30 DR vs. the latter Sovtek labeled 6H30 tubes in a BAT 31SE indicated the differences were minimal at bes... | |
| 2 out of 3 cats approve Mccormack over Adcom I too am a CAT (Convergent Audio Technology) lover. | |
| Review: Aria WV5 XL (Line Stage only) Tube preamp Mike,Comparing the phono section in the WV has turned into a far more involved process than comparing the line stage. With variables such as loading, gain and noise level, it takes time to find an optimum setting for a cartridge. The Aria's MM sta... | |
| Purist Dominus Ferox Check the forums again as many of us have commented on the sonic differences between the Ferox and Fluid PCs. | |
| best resistors What Dgarretson describes is exactly what I had to do to make these work in the Counterpoint circuit board. There was typically 1/8" lead extended on each side of the resistor body and then each was bent back down to go through the circuit board h... | |
| best resistors Why would the Texas Component resistors be difficult to fit? They are nearly identical in length and thickness to any 1/2w resistor. Is height an issue? If so, could you mount them on the other side of the circuit board?I just replaced 22 resistor... | |
| What is this........midrange bloom?? Wavetrader - My reported observations were relative. There are no absolutes here. When we upgrade a link in the chain, we are often overwhelmed with the new degree of refinement over what we had before. And until that event, we were fairly certain... | |
| What is this........midrange bloom?? I would have bet a cheesecake that Mrtennis would enter this thread and point to bloom as a tonality affect. Some things never change.In my experience, bloom has nothing to do with tonality. Bloom has much to do with the amount of time the fundame... |