jazzdude
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| Preamp Deal of the Century Jay461: swap signal tubes left-right to see of the crackle follows the tubes. Do the same with the regulator tubes, just to be sure. It really sounds like the signal tubes to me. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Dsiggia: Might try rolling the regulators and rectifiers also. The tung-sol 5881 is ok, but you can do better. Might want to try the 6f6g, kt-66, or 6l6g. You should give the ken-rad 6sn7gt a try also. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Aurel: FWIW, the Cabernet that I have appears to be capacitor coupled on the output stage instead of transformer coupled like the cortese/chenin. There are at least 2 large capacitors in it. Have to be careful when turning it off because of the ca... | |
| Supratek ?? I have purchased 2 of them, a corteses and a cabernet. Others have also. They are excellent quality preamps and represent a great value for the money invested. Whether they are the right preamp for you is dependant on your personal preferences and... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Sorlowski. to drive the thiels you will want a high-current SS amp. Something that doubles down into a 2 ohm load. Personally, for that speaker I think a high damping factor works best. The Parasound amp Slowhand mentioned will work. I use the Sim... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Ecclectique - The 6J5 may cost less and may even sound better than the 6SN7. But it is not as plentiful. When I ordered my Cabernet I asked Mick to wire it for the 6SN7 instead of the 6J5 because I already had a large number of 6SN7. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Cello - Don't the Grange and Cortese have the same phono stage? Ask Mick to be sure. I think the difference between the two is the linestage portion. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century If your preamp is non-standard then the case has to be special made and takes longer to fill the order. Happened with both my preamps. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century 5 amps for a preamp! that is freakin huge. the Sim Audio W5 ships with a 6 amp fuse. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Thamnosma - Mick builds his preamps with a mono switch if you ask for it. Or maybe you don't have to ask for it. I specifically stated that I didn't want a mono switch when I ordered my 2 preamps. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century i intended to use WE 101D's all along. however, i did not know that they were incompatible with the sockets used by the tj 101d's. we 101d's use uv-4 sockets. they are hard to find and normally expensive when you do. there are a very few current p... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Mondie - Keep in mind that I use WE 101D's instead of TJ 101D's. They are not interchangeable because there require different tube sockets. The cabernet is slightly fuller than the sauvignon. Beginning in the lower midrange and continuing on down.... | |
| If Thiel, Wilson, Sonus, made active speakers????? The problem with active speakers is that they are a 'packaged sound'. Denying the end-user the flexibility of selecting the amp that they want. Just as an integrated amp chooses the power amp/pre amp combo. 'Packaged sound' is fine if you don't ha... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Mlkiz - Chill out. If you keep it up you'll make a mountain out of an anthill and ahve no one to blame but yourself. Mick will make it right. Dozens of others on this thread are testament to that. | |
| Digital "droupouts" on CD's and CD-R's it sounds like the problem is not with your CD's or CDR's. there is probably nothing wrong with your CDP either. i would try something like a monarchy DIP to reclock the digital output between the CDP and DAC. otherwise the culprit is likely to be... |