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| Upgrading path from Merlin VSM black magic If you are on the subject of EL34's I can't recommend the Genalex Gold Lion KT-77 highly enough. It's the best EL34 variant I've heard by a large margin and a pretty good value at $45-50 a tube. | |
| Really satisfied??? I am satisfied with my system very satisfied in fact. Can it be improved? Of course it can! But. To really make a meaningful improvement would require a fairly outsize expenditure. So I tinker around the edges but overall I am happy to let things ... | |
| Once you go 300b it’s hard to go back? @charles1dad understood and agreed on power supplies I am sure iwill listen to a 300B amp again someday!@thom_mackris interesting looking amps thanks for the link. On the subject of the amps being push pull I am a fan i’ve heard and loved 45 and ... | |
| What's on your audio wish list for 2018? I think a turntable. Maybe. | |
| Once you go 300b it’s hard to go back? @thom_mackris Everything you wrote makes perfect sense thank you. I should have also been wary of making a blanket statement about tube type. I am sure there are great amps out there using the 300B tube and probably a few mediocre amps using 2A3s ... | |
| Most satisfying system change in 2017? My news speakers, first in 10 years, Audio Note AN-J/lx's. The AN DAC-3 signature I picked up for a song used close second. | |
| Once you go 300b it’s hard to go back? @gsm18439 cool I live near Vu too and have a preamp and pushpull amp both designed by Pavel. EL34 but I've borrowed his pushpull 45 amp before and loved it. | |
| Newbie Looking for Advice on Streaming Music Don it's one thing to get music out of a "box" and another to have it sound good. Many devices, the Blue Sound Node, I use an Auralic Aries Mini, will output sound, a good DAC will make that sound better. And presumably $20K DACs sound amazing but... | |
| Sunfire Classic Tube Pre-Amp I like the Matsushita/National 7DJ8 from Upscale Audio, Platinum graded tubes are $35. They sound great and are very rugged my preamp uses 6 6922's and tends to eat tubes at a high rate. I dropped the current set into my preamp in October 2016 and... | |
| Musician vs. audiophile If your wife is referring to imaging keep in mind electrostatic speakers image incredibly well better than most conventional box speakers. So possibly just the difference in presentation. Though obviously also as suggested above there are ways to ... | |
| Once you go 300b it’s hard to go back? @gsm18439 Just curious was your Deja Vu 2A3 amp SET or pushpull? I've heard the pushpull 45 and 2A3's from them but not an SET. Great amps I have a stereo pushpull EL34 amp from Deja Vu that I love. | |
| Speaker distance I guessed and today pulled out the tape measure and was totally wrong, 46 inches not 5 feet! On one hand this makes me feel better about my personal height, on the other it seems a tad close together. However I am someone limited by an area rug i... | |
| Former Tekton owners: What have you moved on to? @hfaddict great and snap some pics of the internals if you can would love to see what's inside these! Good luck! | |
| Once you go 300b it’s hard to go back? Personally for my taste if I ever went the SET route again, it's been some years, I would go for either the 2A3 or 45 tube over the 300B. Both to me are a touch more incisive and transparent though also lower power. | |
| My first post Welcome lanceman25 and happy holidays to you and ponchit and all! |