johnb30
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| Amps for Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage Lloydelee21:Is not a good choice to keep the tubes on the preamp that hot for such a very long period of time. The tubes will wear off more quickly.My ARC DAC8 was played like this but this is a solid state.And yes after 450 hours the capacitors j... | |
| Amps for Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage 0461:My XA160.5 got about 500 hours now and ive just noticed at 470-480 hours that the magic started. Your powers needs a lot more then 60 hours. I think both of us needs more then 6-700 hours. Dont even think to compare them at 60 hours because t... | |
| Amps for Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage I'll try...but my local dealer told me to not push the tubes to hard..and that the powers needs to get the signal to amplify it...so i will run like 12-14h a day unfortunately. Do you think i can run it with the powers switched off ? | |
| Amps for Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage Today ive just ordered my ARC Anniversary REF40 preamp. Now i'm waiting for it to come. I hope in one month it will be here. Thanks for advices and i will write my impressions after the 600 hours brake in. | |
| Amps for Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage My power XA160.5 got about 450 hours and it sounds great. At this moment i'm thinking to change my pre from REF3 to REF 40th Anniversary. Does anyone ever heard this pre in this combination ( SF Stradivari + XA160.5 + ARC REF 40th) ? | |
| Amps for Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage I'm haveing about 250 hours of playing and it still needs to improve. The improvments until now are minimal...so i think it will be a boom of performance at about 5-600 hours or something...there are 6 caps of 25.000uF which need to be full bruned... | |
| Sonus Faber Stradivari amp: X600.5 or X1000.5 ? Mine is an ARC DAC8...i dont know what peterayer has.BTW i just bought a Kimber KS-6063 cable for speakers.They sound superb !How many hours for ful brake in for this cable ? | |
| Sonus Faber Stradivari amp: X600.5 or X1000.5 ? Peterayer:Right now i have 185 hours counted on my REF3 preamp.The improvments its not so big. I was also told from my deal to switch on and off a few times a day for recalibration of the caps. I think it will take more then what i was expeceted t... | |
| Sonus Faber Stradivari amp: X600.5 or X1000.5 ? Its start to getting better after 150 hours. I dont think it is final ...still need a lot more hours. XA machines are different then X machines.Thanks | |
| Sonus Faber Stradivari amp: X600.5 or X1000.5 ? Thats good news! Thanks a lot for let me know | |
| Sonus Faber Stradivari amp: X600.5 or X1000.5 ? I didnt power off since i got them yesterday and now they have about 20 hours of music play...10 yesterday and 10 today...and i'm gonna let it sing more. The difference since yesterday is not that big. I think this 6 big 25.000uF capacitors needs ... | |
| Amps for Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage My pair of XA160.5 just got in ! The sound is very good but it still needs some break in time. Does anyone knows how long it takes for full brake in ?The Strads also have about 600 hours of playing. | |
| Sonus Faber Stradivari amp: X600.5 or X1000.5 ? Ive just received the pair of XA160.5 yesterday. The sound is very good but it still needs some break in time. Does anyone knows how long it takes for XA160.5 for full break in ? | |
| Amps for Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage 0461:The amps should arrive this week or next week...i will let you know about the sound. Also let me know if u listened to X200.5 and if the upgrade is worthing or XA160.5 is enough for Strads even at very loud levels.What preamp and what loudspe... | |
| Amps for Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage I have ARC REF3 with MC501 on my Strads. It dosent sounds to good. Ive just ordered a pair of Pass XA160.5The MC501 just dosent have enough power to drive the Strads. The matching betwen ARC REF3 and MC501 is ok.Try to look for other amps then Mci... |