jafox
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| 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. | |
| Phono stage evolution after the ARC Ref2, Ref2SE or Ref 3 Thank you for the private messages sent to be about this thread. I understand the need to keep past experiences and advice here in a more private manner. | |
| Counterpoint SA3000 vs. Audible Illusions Modulus 3A If you like the Counterpoint sound, with tube rectified power supply, keep your eyes out for the SA-5000. This makes the Audible Illusions sound like a kiddie toy. | |
| Perfect Path Tecnologies ‘The Gate’ Thank you PPT. What I was thinking about was a non-invasive installation and thus just a direct plug-in to an existing outlet. I realize this was not the intent of The Gate. Such a device would clearly be on the load side of a breaker switch and t... | |
| Perfect Path Tecnologies ‘The Gate’ I have been following this thread and this exciting product. Sounds like The Gate is wired in parallel across an arbitrary circuit. So why can't one just go get a high quality Furutech plug, connect the Gate's Hot and Neutral lines to this plug,... | |
| Replacing my MFA Luminescence B2 preamp The comparisons have to be understood in the context at what was available at the time I heard the Lumi vs. the SP10. The SP11 had just come out and the SP10 was on its way out. I preferred the SP10 over the SP11. As I recall, it was somewhat o... | |
| Replacing my MFA Luminescence B2 preamp It's exciting to read about the MFA Lumi again. I came close to buying one in the mid 80s from a Phoenix dealer but I just barely preferred the ARC SP-10 for its most impressive dynamics. The MFA had a bass foundation the ARC simply could not tou... | |
| Albert Porter I’m sure I’m leaving some out that should be on my list.Yes you are. Your beloved Sound Labs. | |
| BAT VK-500 (with BatPak) vs Belles 350a? I had a pair of Belles MB-200 mono amps for a couple weeks driving a pair of Sonus Faber Amati speakers. The result was tonally coherent, no obvious peaks/valleys, not fatiguing, but overall just plain and rather boring. Not much in the way of 3... | |
| Got a BAT VK-225se ... Holy Moly! however, it was not a night and day difference to my existing BAT VK-3i.I had the BAT 31SE in the 2002-2005 years and loved it......until I heard the Aesthetix Callisto Signature in my system. Such is progress, right!The 31SE would certainly be a... | |
| Threshold SA/1 monoblocks cap issues, perhaps? Several months ago I borrowed these amps from a local audio dealer in Minneapolis. They had been on consignment for $3k many months and I commented to the salesman several times that I should take these home and give them a try. Each time he polit... | |
| Cartridge Loading into Step-Up Transformer Thank you very much for the input here. The pasted links above provide for much education on the handling of the required gain and ultimately the loading. I read this material several times to understand the subtleties. I just bought to Hashimot... |