jazzdude
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| Help me find it again Just a couple of ideas. 1) Move your speakers closer to the wall to reinforce the bass/fundamentals. 2) Try a tube preamp. 3) Audition different speaker cables and interconnects. I would recommend Acoustic Zen and Cardas but there are many others.... | |
| Please rate WATT/Puppy 7 On the plus side, excellent dynamics and fairly accurate. Downside, difficult/demanding of setup/positioning, substandard imaging/soundstage, they never pull a disappeaing act, require careful component matching, low speaker height makes it difful... | |
| Most Refined? Plinius 102 - Bryston 4B - Pass 250 Considering that you've owned tubes, the Bryston will be the driest of the ones you've mentioned. I would consider Sim Audio Moon since you are looking at the likes of Plinius and Pass Labs. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Harness - The Supratek preamps can be wired with balanced outputs. But the preamp is a SET and it is not possible to have it balanced from input to output. The only balanced (input to output) tube preamp I know of is BAT. Fully balanced requires a... | |
| SLI-80 which 6SN7? I don't have a cary, but I do have a tube preamp with 6SN7's. Generally I have found that I prefer the 1940's era tubes over later iterations. I also prefer bottom-getter 6SN7's over top-getter types. There are 4 6SN7's in particular that I would ... | |
| Best affordable amp for Thiel CS3.6 I use to drive my Thiels with a Bryston 4B-ST but the Bryston's aren't that good at low impedence loads. I now use the Sim Audio Moon W-5 which has an output of over 700 watts into a 2 ohm load. Lotts of authority in the bass. You should be able t... | |
| Vibration Problem Brightstar airmass underneath and a littlerock on top. I also have Symposium Rollerblock Jrs. under the transport. They sit on top of the airmass. | |
| Does good DAC improve sonics of low end transport Audioengr - I would love to get the jukebox mod'd but in all my research I haven't found anyone who mods cd jukebox's. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Stevem1960? 'feel good'? I'm not going to flame you. But it makes perfect sense for us to try to get the very best out of our investments. I certainly wouldn't go to all this trouble if it didn't make a difference. | |
| Does good DAC improve sonics of low end transport I have one of the Sony ES Jukebox's and an outboard dac along with some other stuff in between. It sounds very good to me. I don't doubt that I could enhance the sound of my system with a real transport. But I fail to see the point if I am not goi... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century I use Symposium Rollerblock Jrs underneath my SupraTek also. I picked up my grade 3 tungsten carbide balls from mcmaster carr. I forget the price but it was less that half of what Symposium wanted to charge. One of the benefits I noticed with the ... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century I have the Sauvignon, the line-stage version of the Cortese. The Cabernet is the linestage version of the Grange. According to Mick the only tube complement difference between the two linestages is the 101D. There are at least 2 subs, the WE101D a... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Never listened to the Cabernet. From trading emails with Mick about the dif between the Sauvignon and Cabernet, and reading posts on AA regarding the DHT sound I believe that I have a good idea of how the Cabernet will sound. I think I will prefer... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Just got THE email from Mick. He is building my cabernet right now. It'll take about a week to finish building it and then he runs it in for awhile before he ships. I hope to take delivery within a month. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Linkster, 2. I don't know of anyone on this thread who has heard both old and new versions. Email Mick. 3. I have the older version Sauvignon. I have a Cabernet on order. I will post my initial impressions soon after I get it. 5. Waltersalas had t... |