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| Fidelity Research FRT-4 and Entre ET-100 step-up transformer SUT comparison @scar972 , thanks for posting your results. I have wondered what those FR SUTs sounded like. A another one you may want to consider is the Cinemags on the Ned clayton base. He sells them on ebay. The Mitchell Cotter SUTs have always been highly th... | |
| PSVANE 12Au7 12At7 12Ax7 "-T MKII" 2020 production run of small signal/driver tubes Vivatubes is a great seller and does try to filter out the duds. Have bought quite a few dozen tubes from them. Both Chinese and Russian. Some duds still can get through. Not sure if the packaging on the China sourced tubes has much of an effect o... | |
| PSVANE 12Au7 12At7 12Ax7 "-T MKII" 2020 production run of small signal/driver tubes Forgot to add I tried the Cossors as well. Very similar sound to the T-IIs. Did not have them in long enough to get any long term reliability out of them. | |
| PSVANE 12Au7 12At7 12Ax7 "-T MKII" 2020 production run of small signal/driver tubes I have used all of the ART series up (3 pairs of ART-S). Had one fail at 2 months, one fail at 6 months and the balance were shot at roughly a year. They do sound more musical than the T-II series. Depending on the amp or preamp they are plugged i... | |
| Turntable mat for Sony PS-x6 The platter on the PS-X6 rings like a bell. The arm height is not too adjustable which may limit what the options are. To damp the platter you may want to try a 2mm brass mat from doukmall then add a thin rubber mat on top of it. The brass will da... | |
| VTL Pre tube roll…or suggestions on 12AU7s The sound of the 6.5 and 7.5 can vary slightly with change in tubes. I like the RCA black plate 5814As in mine. Have tried GE, PSVANE, Shuguang, Mullard UK, and Sylvania. If you are a daily or 4x per week user you'll likely get about a year out of... | |
| Primaluna tube rolling 12AU7 Notes would agree. Nice summary on the input tubes. Almost any tube NOS UOS US or Euro tube is going to be better than the stock 12AU7s that come with the amp. The stock tubes are PSVANE entry level tubes private labeled. If a person is bit more adventu... | |
| PrimaLuna dialogue hp the HP amp should be fine. Before you buy would suggest having a look inside (or have seller snap a few photos and send to you) and make sure the amp has the green fuse holders mounted on the chassis inside. The earliest versions did not have thes... | |
| Is It Worh Modding An Amp The Dialogue 1 uses pretty inexpensive coupling caps and shunt filtering caps on the input tubes. There are much better caps out there but they are not cheap. The problem is most of these caps are considerably large in size than the stock caps so ... | |
| V-Cap ODAM Capacitor Upgrade in VTL 2.5i Pre? not warmer; more organic sounding. Once you hear copper tough to return to a plastic cap. | |
| Non-fatiguing speakers in $10K range? what you are describing is the Franko Serblin sound from the earlier Sonus Fabers. Look for a pair either in a floor model or bookshelf model. Most of these are unfatiguing and can be listened to for hours. | |
| V-Cap ODAM Capacitor Upgrade in VTL 2.5i Pre? I used to have that same preamp. Better caps will help the sonics but doubt you'll get your money back. May want to consider sticking with copper foil caps though. Believe the ODAMS are metalized film. At some point though you may want to consider... | |
| AT-OC9XMLvs AT-OC9XSH @bpoletti - I have most of the AT carts plus quite a few others. The ART 9 is a nice pathway into the ART series. Pretty musical cart, nice soundstage. The ART 1000 is in another league. the dynamics, soundstage depth, instrument placement in... | |
| Shopping for a DAC at AXPONA If you find a DAC you like you may want to swing by Quintessence Audio in Morton Grove, iL. They should be at AXPONA. See what they have. Will also allow you to get away from all the noise at the show which makes it easier to hear the qualities of... | |
| Speakers replace or improve? That open area is going to cause loading problems. You really need to buy a couple of good subs that will proplerly load that whole area. Which means to get good bass you need something that will really move a lot of air. Forget the cheaper subs, ... |