jbhiller
Responses from jbhiller
| Choice of capacitor It depends. You list all good brands. There are others comparable and others worse. Others still will be extraordinary!Its ALL SUBJECTIVE—. That said…I adore the sound of VCap. Special product. Tell us your more about your amp project. It will ... | |
| Recommended streamers/servers? You can put a Roon ROCK Intel NUC together for about $400.00. It will have equal or typically more processing power than other off the shelf servers. I followed Roon’s instructions to the letter and for a good year now the Roon ROCK NUC is rock so... | |
| Up grade to a new turntable The VTA on the Technics G tables is on the fly and ever-so-awesome. @daveyonthecoast , I highly recommend looking at the newer Technics tables. As Chakster noted, they are very difficult to beat. They are rock solid. They are not fussy. They s... | |
| Cornwall IV and subwoofers One more thing---I think the Cornwall IV bass response is accurate where it exists. It's not bloated at all. But, if you have a bigger room they may need help to pressurize it. If you put these in a smallish room, I bet the bass end of things wo... | |
| Cornwall IV and subwoofers @wrm57 , FYI, classic golden age jazz (50s-60s) is my favorite cup of tea. And, the RELs really augment the lifelike sound that's present. Surprisingly, even with 1950s recordings--they bolster the ambiance of the recording room. I was playin... | |
| Why so many tubes? Bob Carver's Silver 7s run 20 KT120s per mono block! | |
| Cornwall IV and subwoofers I run CWIVs with two REL T9i subs. I would think T7i (smaller units) would suffice. They are run off speaker level outputs from the amplifier. They are not necessary, but fill in the lowest octave and provide a good sense of stage depth and mak... | |
| Help wanted spending money and improving my system. Your phono preamp is the weakest link. | |
| V-Cap CuTF .22 on Gain Tubes-- Primaluna Dialogue HP Integrated @abd1, I'm not sure. You'd have to open it up and put a picture of it up on your virtual system page--then we can look at it. | |
| Music Direct and my recent exoeriences I, too, love Music Direct. They will just make it right. They are not really negotiable on price. Or, are they and I don't know it?! | |
| If there’s an audiophile exit ramp, this ain’t it… @OP, I've been there! There are so many good suggestions above. One thing that works for me is actually hearing the gear I think about buying. That's harder to do with brick and mortar industry on life support and the pandemic. I made my fir... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above Personally, I’d play with different cartridges before moving on from your current table. I’d question that a table upgrade alone at $10k will make a bigger difference. I’d go cartridge, then preamp before a different table. But I love your table. ... | |
| Anyone have experience with the Tung Sol 7581a vs. EL34, KT66, KT88, 6L6 @frogman , How do you like the 7581as? I recently sold my Primaluna and now have a Bob Carver Crimson 275, which runs (stock) KT120s. I finally got around to trying the 7581as in it and they are really fun to listen to. Great clarity and sweetn... | |
| Opinions Please - New Production Telefunkene Black Diamond Tube I've been waiting over 5 years for a response! I'm also curious as to how these sound in the KT88 compliment. | |
| Doge 8 Clarity: 12AT7 replacement for phono stage @oyie2000 and gilles130, I have a Doge 8 Clarity the 2021 edition. I, too, have hiss in the otherwise magnificent sounding phono stage. I've swamped some tubes that aren't noisy in other preamp stages (but not phono). I really want to resolve t... |