johnss
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| Inexpensive Tube Amps Will62,followed this post from a week or so ago. I have bought quite a few of the chinese amps, more out of curiosity than anything else. Most are very musical and offer a lot of value for the money. So Last week, decided to order a Gentune verion... | |
| Question for tube aficionados I owned the PV5, PV8, PV11 and PV12 over the years. Going from memory, seems the later versions starved the tubes a bit. before you start serious tube rolling, may want to measure the plate and cathode voltages and see what there are, then calcula... | |
| Tube Preamps..... Pretty simple choice. 1. Primaluna Prologue prem tube pre amp. 2. Denafrips Ares DAC. The two items will come in just under your budget. The Ares is a giant killer of a DAC. | |
| Inexpensive Tube Amps " I want to try one just to see how the sound compares to my Yamaha and Denon solid states."the nobsound will sonically blow away your solid state gear, if you have very efficient speakers. If not these SE amps will run out of headroom pretty fast... | |
| When to recap a late nineties Krell Kav 250 A. pivetta, why not buy a Peak cap checker and measure the existing caps in your amp. Rather than relying on opinion, will give you hard data for each cap on capacitance value, and ESR.....once you have that data, then it will be an automatic and val... | |
| Primaluna Dialogue poremium, Rogue Cronus Magnum II or Jolida 801...who can advise me? Bruce in Philly pretty well covered it. You're not taking a plunge you are coming over to amps that have a much greater hold of keeping your rear glued in the listening chair......best of luck.... | |
| Question for tube aficionados I used to have both the PV11 and PV12. NOS tubes did sound better, but if memory serves, seem to recall in both preamps the tubes were run in a current starved condition. You may want to measure the current/voltage flow through the tube. I dropped... | |
| LP Gear (Nevada) Customer Service? would agree, have bought several carts from them, all with very good service and prompt delivery..... | |
| First Tube Amp Recluse, your experience is more common than you think. about 5 years ago was in similar boat. used only high end SS power since I had super inefficient speakers. Sold the speakers, but kept the amps, until one day a friend let me borrow his chine... | |
| PrimaLuna Dialogue Premium would replace both. there are 6 or 8 caps in the amp. four are coupling, two are added B+ filtering for the front end tubes. and 1 or 2 are bypasses on the main filters. | |
| Tube recomendations for a newbie I may have the same amp you have. Depends on what you mean by better sound. The Chinese tubes are usually very detailed, but can be thin in the midrange. If you want more midrange warmth, would suggest the EH6CA7 fat bottles to replace your EL34s,... | |
| Apt-Holman pre-amp a few years ago I used to upgrade the holman preamps. They are old enough now that a full recap would be a good choice. There are two short falls with the Holman pre amp. 1. a tiny power supply transformer2. the TL072 texas instruments op amps. Bo... | |
| PrimaLuna Dialogue Premium agree with 1graber2, replace those stock tubes with NOS US or Euro tubes for a nice sonic jump. The other big improvement is replacing the stock coupling caps with Jensen or V-Cap Copper foil caps. tremendous hold your rear in the listening chair ... | |
| JAN / Phillips 5814A / 12AU7 Tube Have been using some RCA 3 mica 5814As with nice results, not bright at all. Same with GE 5814s. have not tried the philips. You might also try some 12AV7s. they have a bit more gain than the 12AU7, but also have their own sonic signature. | |
| Ortofon Red/Pro-ject Carbon Debut combination; rolled off hi-frequencies. Solutions? Before you toss the cart, have you measured how much the high freq are rolled off?what about adjusting the cart loading on the phono stage.....you may want to consider the following. 1. get a disc with test tones on it,.2. play the disc back on yo... |