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| Review: Aria WV5 XL (Line Stage only) Tube preamp Hello Gerbie,The Counterpoint SA-2 is back with Michael Elliot to have its power supply rebuilt with the same parts he uses in the WV XL. I am very eager to hear the SA-2 into the WV's MM input vs. the WV's SUT MC input. I have also looked into im... | |
| Power Cord w/ lean bass Purist Audio Dominus Ferrox. Doesn't have lean bass, but it controls bass like no other power cord I know. I would agree with this strength of the Dominus Ferox but the Stealth M5000 quite handily beat the Dominus here at it own game when I had a ... | |
| Tube preamp noise Furthermore, among 4 sockets, one socket always generates more tapping noise regardless whatever combination of tubes used.This might also indicate that a tube socket needs to be replaced. | |
| Io line out mod? I would contact Aesthetix about this. It might be fairly easy to tap off a pair of connections in the circuit just before the volume control. Hopefully the device connected here has a high enough input impedance to not affect the Io's circuit. You... | |
| Lack in harmonic richness The idea of inserting any kind of EQ will only destroy more of the harmonic information. Such a device resolves issues with tonal coherency ..... it has NOTHING to do with retrieving the dimensionality aspects, decays and bloom in the music.I trie... | |
| Lack in harmonic richness On the other hand, I have never heard instruments "bloom" in the concert hall. That's interesting as I was in Carnegie Hall in April andeven up 20 rows or so, the piano had tremendous bloom. I can only dream of having that sound in my room; but af... | |
| Lack in harmonic richness First of all, let's eliminate the SoundLab A1's as the problem. The most important thing to me in a music system has been to render the space and harmonic overtones. And the SoundLab A1's like the big Maggies do this incredibly well. However, the ... | |
| Review: SMc VRE-1 Preamplifier Dott_c - Thanks for sharing the VRE-1 here. There's much focus on the VRE-1's incredible tonal coherency but I am left with uncertainties as to how it performs against the competition in other ways....and in the same system of course. Would you pl... | |
| Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players Tvad: Maybe Alex can replace "those" resistors with higher-wattage models and beef up a couple regulators too so that you can hear what the player can really do. 8-) | |
| Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players Thanks Tvad for your post. I tried to make it clear here that the 7062 tube was not supported by Alex. I have great respect for Alex and his work but to say that the sonic changes of the 7062 are due to its non-linearities and thus colorations com... | |
| Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players Hi Gary - Thanks for the insight on the 32-bit version of the APL vs. the AMR. Your results are encouraging. I only heard the AMR for 4-5 hours late one night in my system vs. the APL. And this was with the APL powered on for several days and the ... | |
| Which tube cd player do you like Why would you focus on a tube in the power supply?A tube in a CDP does not necessarily imply the tube is in the PS. However, tube PS regulation/rectification in preamps is a major transformation compared to "comparable" preamps with ss PS designs.... | |
| Gold interconnect comparison help i doubt one could detect the difference between pure gold and pure copper, assuming connectors and all other materials were the same.This is exactly the case with Jade Audio cables. JD uses the same manufacturing process in all his models for insu... | |
| Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players Hello Pete,I was in contact with Alex right after your original shootout here. I ultimately ended up getting your APL Denon. I had told Alex that I did not like the 6H30 tube and he told me he would consider updating this one and only unit to supp... | |
| Gold interconnect comparison help Wow, what a great response from John on the two cables. My Hybrid vs. Indra observations were parallel to John's Hybrid vs. Rapture. If the Hybrid had just a tiny bit more energy in the highest of the highs, I would consider it flawless....well of... |