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| CAT or VAC for Shahinian Obelsik With all due respect to Hassel, the CAT is not your average tube amp. Not all tube amps control speakers the same. 100 tube watts does not necessarily equal 100 tube watts. But the same holds true between ss amps.The JL-2 is conservatively rated a... | |
| Cables for CAT JL2 - is Purist non-silver enough? Hello - As a CAT JL-3 owner with a lot of Purist cables in my system, I can share some observations here. And with you being an owner of the Calypso, there will be parallels as I own the Io/Callisto.I have written much here on cable shootouts and ... | |
| XLR or single ended cables and why? I have run 20' MIT 350 EVO, 30' Kubala-Sosna Emotion and 30' Purist Dominus RCA cables, and 25' MIT 350 Ref and 30' NBS Statement XLR cables, and there was only one issue of noise - surprisingly the NBS Statement XLR 30' cable. This cable had a lo... | |
| List of top phono preamps best I have answered a few such threads as this and so here I go again. As many have already commented, if you want balanced, most of your list is not going to work. The BAT and the two Aesthetix models are the balanced units here.Yes, the Io has many ... | |
| Best phono stage balanced under $3000 used World class sound, fully balanced phono in the $3k or less range? Wow, that is asking a lot but it is there. Keep your eyes out for the Aesthetix Io (non signature version) which is every now and then in the $3k zone. For just a little more than t... | |
| CAT JL-2 amp upgrade I would hope that a JL-2 or JL-3 owner who had the upgrade done would chime in with some before and after comments. I have seriously thought of this with the JL-3 Sig's but they sound so mighty good already. But if the upgrade brings on more resol... | |
| Is NBS still in business? I wish Ms. Lambert great success because I could not agree more on the status of the cables here in the US. The NBS product line needs major re-engineering and some realistic pricing as well.As a long time owner of Statement and Signature ICs, PCs... | |
| Budget Preamps for Atmaspheres? If you absolutely want a balanced line stage, the BAT VK3 is an excellent choice....and sometimes falls around $1k or so. Otherwise I would give serious consideration to the CJ models suggested by Rushton. Finding something under $1k because you m... | |
| Broken CAT "the best match for a cat amp is a cat pre since they were made together"I respectfully disagree. The "best match" for one person or one system of components may be very different for another. As an owner of the JL-3 Signature amps, I put a lot of... | |
| wadia making mistake? Nsgarch - Not only is there a consensus that Steve Huntley does phenomenol rework on ARC and Wadia gear, but this last week I was able to witness his magic on just the first pass of him tweaking my Manley Ref DAC. It's not just an issue of replaci... | |
| Sumo The Five amplifier setup question That seems very goofy .... running each phase of a balanced signal through its own single-ended RCA cable. Is this truly what is being done? ... or does the amp simply have labels for + and - inputs to support inverting and non-inverting preamp ou... | |
| MIT's not good for tube components? Nsgarch provides many valuable comments here. I too ran with the 330 for many years and still use it in my HT setup. Compared to the latest offerings by many companies, the 330 is severely rolled off at the extremes and only has mediocre resolutio... | |
| CAT JL-2 Signature VS. Jadis JA80 Since your speakers have an amp for the bottom 2 octaves, you have several options for amplifiers that many of the rest of us do not have. I have not heard the Vandy 5 nor the Jadis amps and yet there seems to be a consensus that both of these pro... | |
| Broken CAT Do a search in the archives. A number of us CAT amp owners have reported our findings with non-CAT preamps. | |
| how can a line cord affect frequency response ? Mrtennis essentially states that without proof, there is no knowledge, only opinion. But in the big picture, much of what we all personally consider knowledge is not proven until we too witness and experience if for ourselves.I "know" that Canberr... |