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| Accuphase A-30 or P-3000 for Klipschorns? To use anything other than a tube amp with these speakers would be crazy.They will brutally reveal just how flawed transistor amps sound.Even a Sonic Impact T amp would sound a lot better[digital]and be free of the transistor nasties.JT | |
| ribbon tweeters The best thing is to run ribbons together with a dome tweeter.This gives the best of both.I note Dali is now doing this.The ribbons sound best above 7k.Try using just a 2.2 mF cap for an 8 ohm ribbon and sit it on top of your speaker.JT | |
| Looking For Single Source Tube Preamp Hi,I,m with Nsgarch on this one.Harshness can often be tamed with different cabling.The first thing to try would be solid core copper speaker cable rather than stranded. Solid core lighting cable can sound excellent and is very cheap from electric... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Kenji,thanks for the information.Sounds like I need to try some of the TJ PX4 at some stage.I have a third set of speakers -open baffle[1964 Wharfedale above 250hz] and then crossing to titanium and ribbon tweeters around 3.5 k.Although the midran... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Hi Kenji,The TJ does have a big bass but I am bi-amping so can attenuate it a bit.I have been listening to both the TJ and the EH and am starting to prefer the TJ-the mid is much nicer although the EH is very new and might free up in time.Yet to t... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century I get some microphonics if I tap on the chasis but this settles down quickly and certainly does not intrude on the music.My speakers are 98db sensitivity so show up problems like this.I used to have a Lux power amp that had bad microphonics.I sold... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Thanks for the welcome Stiltskin and Slowhand.The first time I heard a Supratek preamp was a revelation.Most audiophiles seem to spend a lot of time effort and money "upgrading" without ever really improving the long term satisfaction that they ge... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century G'day everyone.This is my first post here.I took delivery of my Cabernet two days ago and am enjoying it immensely.I guess I am one of the lucky ones because I live near Supratek and Mick has been very patient and helpful in assisting me to decide... | |
| Best preamp is no preamp: always true? A passive preamp will often sound better than an active but that is only because most active pre's are poor.When you discover a really good active pre-like the Suprateks,it becomes obvious that the preamp is actually more important than the power ... | |
| Is There any Truly "High End" Integrated Amp? The Optonica SM5200 is an unassuming looking integrated amp from the late70s early 80s.These are comfortably better than 99% of pre-power combos.They use a simple STK 466 integrated amp module-no transistors,and sound closer to a really good moder... |