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| $3500 to spend on a tube preamp....ideas? In the same picture depicting those "Jensen" caps are these caps (this pic is from the mc-2a3x8)http://68.183.226.200/bill/DSCF0157.JPGyou decide whether they are real or not. | |
| Does the wilson sophia 1 sound good only with perf A lot of times people tend to blame their setup's tendency to leanness, thinness and soundstage smearing to bad recording.I was there when I had my Krells and Levinsons and some Audio Research (notably VT200).So are all DG recordings from 1975 to ... | |
| $3500 to spend on a tube preamp....ideas? The x8 got a few of my friends fooled.It's EXACTLY in the x8 that we found these fake caps.Follow this link to see the pride of ming da: 68.183.226.200/mc2a3-2/FakeFilamentCaps.JPG$800 is a good price though, not a penny more.No respect for tube s... | |
| $3500 to spend on a tube preamp....ideas? I am assuming the Cary SLP05 sounds the exact opposite of the SLP98 ( which turns your system into an am radio regardless of what caps you upgrade it to and what tubes you put in, but thats my opinion based on comparing it to something like the Du... | |
| $3500 to spend on a tube preamp....ideas? The MC2A3 pre/amps that are not from ebay still contain counterfeit parts such as "Rudeyconn" caps and fake M-caps.Without mods they sound veiled, colored, and anemic in the bass department. | |
| Martin Logan Quest Z Bass - can it be fixed ? Great analysis Drew_eckhart. Didnt the ML Prodigys have a push pull dipole-like woofer or am I mistaken? | |
| Martin Logan Quest Z Bass - can it be fixed ? you must protect the panels from bass energy.Drive full range = disaster.YOu may disable the woofer and custom build a woofer for it.The SL3 is the most successful in mating a relatively quick woofer for the panels.Not so with Quests and Monoliths... | |
| Martin Logan Quest Z Bass - can it be fixed ? Adding a sub makes it worse. It's a phase coherence issue.The "speed" of the panel and that of the cheap cone are vastly different.Tried it before... biamp, muscle amp, cables, you name it.They play certain things right but once it gets to bass in... | |
| Thiel CS3.5 vs CS3.6 Art, Believe it or not I have "downgraded" from Avalon Eidolons to JM Lab Utopia Divas (call me crazy but I spent quite a bit of time modifying them, in stock form they are terrible, but I got tired of the Accuton ceramic tweeter of the Avalons). ... | |
| $3500 to spend on a tube preamp....ideas? I assume phono stage not required?Consider the Ming Da Mc-2a3 for about 1k and throw in 1k worth of mods. Any competent tech can do the mods and make it rival anything thats out there. There are a number of fellow audiophiles here and on AA who ca... | |
| CAV-50 and 804 Diamonds CAV-50 may sound better than Krell integrated unless it's one of the newer Krell's made less than 10 years ago. | |
| ARC vt100mkiii Questions? I sure hope you are using power tubes from Audio Research.At 60mA or higher those so-called Black Sable 6550Cs wont last you more than a few hundred hours.User beware. | |
| Thiel CS3.5 vs CS3.6 If I remember correctly Art actually took over the 3.6s from my friend after we both gave up and went with Avalons. I guess Art had Thiel 3s right? | |
| Avalon Acoustics vs Wilson Audio I second Nolitan and Elberoth. I've owned Eidolons for over 10 years now. I dont think that even WP7 is less musical than my Eidolons (not diamond, not vision). | |
| CAV-50 and 804 Diamonds The CJ CAV-50 is the 40W per channel Ultralinear integrated.To get it "up to par" with speakers worthy of diamond tweeters you need to sink in major $$$ to redo the power supply.Do you want to stick with Integrated amp or go separate?The only inte... |