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| which is your favorite inexpensive stereo system? One pairing could be a lightly used Sophia Electric Baby integrated with Silverline Minuet monitors.May have enough spare cash from that Grover Cleveland to buy an ok used cdp. | |
| Best 6DJ8 tubes? Colomor Electronics (UK) has an Ebay Store and still lists "grey pin E188CC 7308" tubes at $40/pair. Claim they were surplus military stock for Polaris subs. I bought a few pairs a while back and, while the acid etched code indicates 6DJ8 and not ... | |
| A great linestage/preamp "makes" a great system Features are definitely a huge consideration. One of the reasons I went the "custom" route with Bill Baker was to tailor a preamp to my liking. I wanted that glorious Audio Note sound with two pairs each of (transformer-coupled) balanced inputs an... | |
| A great linestage/preamp "makes" a great system Mechans, how I wish I'd have found the best preamp for my system so inexpensively. You are lucky, indeed! FWIW, I'm also a 6SN7 collector as an Atma OTL owner. There are greats among them and two of the four I now use in each monoblock are Sylvani... | |
| A great linestage/preamp "makes" a great system My experience over the years has been that the effect of any linestage/preamp in my systems has been the most unpredictable. Digital sources have consistently proven more refined/analog-sounding as I've moved up the cost ladder (ouch!). Once I und... | |
| Phono Preamp Recommendation Doc Bottlehead has a new one on the way... | |
| Good $2k Used Speakers for 20wpc tube amp Agree that the Heron i, if well cared for, is a steal.Don't know that 20W/ch will do. I had original Blue Herons vertically biamped w/300W/ch hybrid amps years back and got glorious sound. Never tried lower power, though. | |
| Playback designs followup? Fbhifi:I note you'd had the Evolution Acoustics MM3s?Have you moved on from these loudspeakers? If so, what has bettered them? | |
| affordable long run IC Depending on the impedance match between the Zoe and JRDG 201,something like the BUF-101 from Space Tech Labs may be of benefit. In the case of a relatively high preamp output impedance, it'll both lower the input impedance the JRDG "sees", AND co... | |
| 6N3C-E Tube ok | |
| 6N3C-E Tube The 6N3C-E is roughly similar to the 6L6G/GA/GB.It is not equivalent to a 6L6GC and shouldn't be used in circuits designed for the "GC" without first consulting with the amp's designer. Some amps may simply wear these tubes out relatively quickly,... | |
| CDP with XLR outs? Is your amp truly differentially balanced from input to output, or does it simply have XLR inputs? | |
| dCS Elgar plus vs. Delius - confused Geir,I agree that the Elgar Plus DAC is the one piece from the classic stack I'd own if able to have just one. I'd pair it with an Esoteric P-70 rather than the Verdi, given my experience owning both transports with dCS DACs.Blessings to you and a... | |
| dCS Puccini Clock I would suggest using a good quality clock cable for the Puccini. The dCS technical staff recommended such to me. My experience validates this:I use the Esoteric P-70 transport which has two different word sync terminals. "Mode 2" has a PLL filter... | |
| Upgrading Frontend in 2009: Which way to go? For slightly more than your upper budget limit, you could consider the K&K Audio RAKK DAC MKII "Extreme" fed by a used Esoteric P-70 VRDS transport.The "Extreme" RAKK has a tube/active linestage built into the same case. I own the stand alone ... |