jafox
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| Why is the Audio Research SP8 so highly regarded? I found the original cold, sterile and perhaps lean. Wow! Never heard this one before!!!! Nothing can be further from the truth! Sterile is 90% of today’s line and phono stages that can not even begin to give the listener any hint of the portrayal... | |
| SIMPLY AMAZING: Coda Technologies 07x Preamplifier Did teajay mention his original reference tube line stage here? If so, I missed it. And why hide or feel shame to list the actual tube line stages that were "outperformed" by the Coda with the big, WOW?From my own experience with going through m... | |
| tube recommendations for audio research LS-16? Another vote for Valvo as well as Amperex 7308. Mullard 6922 are another favorite.Great advice to read the Brent Jesse site and then email him for advice. He is very helpful. As for the EH, even 500 hours will still result in no value compared ... | |
| Belles upgrade?? Oh, I forgot to mention that Klaus is the USA SL dealer. He might have an SL amp for you to try. Once you do, you will not return it. | |
| Belles upgrade?? I tried a pair of MB200s for a month or so last year and it was "ok", not forward, not annoying but yet, rather musically boring. Take a look at my system to get an idea of the speakers I have. I tried the MB200s on both my speakers, which can b... | |
| Will a pair of Manley tube amps be a good match for Martin Logan ESL 11A's? My assessment is that your review samples were hooked up incorrectly. No. The JC1's were not review samples. This was at a dealer for Atmasphere and Parasound products. The rest of his system was top notch. The only way to incorrectly connect a... | |
| Will a pair of Manley tube amps be a good match for Martin Logan ESL 11A's? Two transformers is really uncomfortable for my brain.Why the two transformer phobia here?Years ago, I auditioned a pair of Sound Lab U1 speakers with three amps: Atmasphere MA1, CAT JL-2 and Parasound JC1. First up was the JC1 and the sound was ... | |
| Will a pair of Manley tube amps be a good match for Martin Logan ESL 11A's? In general its frequently thought tubes are a bad amp for electrostatic speakers.I never heard this before. Perhaps this is true for amps with rather output transformers. But any speaker that dips down to 2 or even 1 ohm is going to cause a lot... | |
| Soundlab A3s and thoughts. The comments by @kingdeezie are spot on. As a long time owner of A1's with the old transformers, and then updating to the newer back panels, the sound is magnificent with big tube amps. These speakers and tube amps are a match made in heaven.I a... | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? Another huge applause for Symphonic Line. I had read about this product over the years but rarely saw any for sale to audition. Finally that option came my way. I got a killer deal on their smallest amp, the RG11 two years ago. I think it was ... | |
| Need a Roon, Wifi, DAC Expert Please! The system sounds fantastic, however I believe it could sound even better with modern components. Indeed. I will throw an idea in another direction. The SF SFL-2 is 25 years old. I had this for a short time and found it to be very flat and dry ... | |
| Balanced Tube Preamp Recommendations for $2000 As a past owner of the Aesthetix Callisto signature, I am well aware of the tubey sound you are likely after. And with a local friend who had an updated version of the Calypso, with Mullard 10M tubes, the Calypso was not even close to the Callist... | |
| Phono stage evolution after the ARC Ref2, Ref2SE or Ref 3 Thank you folkfreak for sharing your phono evolution. It seems like a lot of people are running with a high-performance MM-based phono stage and one of the latest generation of the top-tiered SUT's. I am now doing the same with the Hashimoto HM7... | |
| Manley snapper vs Atma-sphere M60 The Convergent Audio Technology amplifiers are truly the CAT's meow. | |
| Aesthetix system – with or without a line stage? Keep your eyes out for a used Aesthetix Callisto. No revised or new Calypso will come even close. |