jazzdude
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| Preamp Deal of the Century The GZ33 and GZ37 are notably fuller sounding than the GZ34 or 6106. I did not find either rectifier to be muddy or lacking in dynamics or clarity while they were in my cabernet. Of all the rectifiers in my system the metal-base GZ34 was best when... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Lugnut - the preferred tube compliment will vary with your tastes. I don't recall ever noticing a recurring full tube compliment. There are definately some individual tube positions where some consensus has developed. Why don't you give us an idea... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Amandarae - I tried out the Sylvania 6sn7W short-bottle with black bakelite base in my Sauvignon a couple years ago. To the best of my recollection the bass was big and kind of tubby. The upper midrange and teble were closed in. I don't have any l... | |
| Supratek Tubes and Tube Swappin' for Everybody Wc65mustang - Mick's comments have a lot of merit. Esp about the different rectifier/regulator combo really only serving to change the operating points on the signal tubes. I still recommend rolling all the tubes, but I would use some auditory/bud... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Ecclectique - I don't have the grange. My cabernet doesn't use the px4 or 300b. But comparing the linestage section between the Mick's upper and mid-line preamps I am certain that the grange will easily best the cortese. Mick can easily put the 6j... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Ethifi - picture the signal your speakers recieve as a 3-way pie chart composed of source signal, preamp signal, poweramp signal. the higher you are able to turn up the volume on the preamp then the more you hear of the preamp and the less you hea... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Fiddler - where did you purchase the Mundorf Silver Supremes? Were the cap values clearly indicated on the caps or did you have to get that info from Mick? Thanks. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Slowhand - the 5y3 is a directly-heated full-wave rectifier. like all directly-heated recitifier it doesn't have a slow startup. this means that every time you power on the preamp you are stripping the cathodes. it damages your tubes and i believe... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Mondie - 2 questions. how did the cabernet sound when you placed the bent between the source and cabernet and used the bent to attentuate the source signal instead of the cabernet's built-in attentuator? did you ever get around to rolling tubes in... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century if you ask for it mick can also put a step attentuator on the inputs of the supratek to attentuate the incoming source signal. i have one on mine but never used it because i thought it was a gain attentuator. | |
| Music from hard drive better than CD? Jman66 - rip each track individually and play it back through foobar2000 or some other player without any pause between tracks. This is the normal way it is done in foobar. Foobar also allows you to crossfade the tracks if you so desire. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Mhu - i'm really glad you like the cabernet so much. i would just leave it on and playing at low levels so you can rack up the burn-in time quickly. i got about 4500 hours on my cabernet and it sings like you wouldn't believe. everyone - i am twea... | |
| Does your system have jump? NO! the visit to the dentist can't conclude while the patient still has teeth we haven't pulled. Classicjazz - you should try a DHT preamp sometime. DHT preamps tend to have a purer tone and faster attack. If you like small ensemble jazz in an int... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century neither can we. tell us what you think of it after a few days. | |
| I want profoundly better bass I think drubin gives wise advice on the issue. Also if Meadowman could give some qualifiers as to what he think 'profoundly better bass' should sound like then that would help others in their recommendations. Does better bass mean more bass respon... |