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| Best vintage amps (late 70s / early 80s) under $3k? I can’t speak to everything, but. My Robertson 4010 has been upgraded, and it collects dust. I have a Stasis 2, I replaced EVERY resistor, every capacitor, the bridge rectifiers with hexfreds, and had Jon Soderberg install matched transistors in b... | |
| tubesforhifi VTA sp14 or shiit freya Easy, VTA SP14. Roy can help you improve it as well if you want it to truly sing. Either way as much as I like my Freya, the SP14 is in another class all together. I am not sure if Roy has finished his move or not. It's possible that he just hasn'... | |
| Should I recap my speakers? If so who can do it? Look, if doing a remote crossover rebuild is sketchy, changing out drivers is crazy unless you have years of experience in speaker design. There are driver resonant frequencies to deal with, crossover points, and trying to incorporate circuits to ... | |
| Should I recap my speakers? If so who can do it? I don’t quite understand why someone would use a speaker, or whatever, that is less than the best, sometimes it’s to meet a price point, other times I’m sure it is for other reasons.For me there are pretty much 2 paths. The Vandersteen path is an ... | |
| I need cables for my 2 channel system My 2 cents. I agree generally with those who say that the best cable for connecting device X to Z is brand S. IOW, one cable very well may not mate well with your gear. I recently went through cables some of which costing north of $600, and below ... | |
| Should I recap my speakers? If so who can do it? Here's your problem. I tried to upgrade some Vandersteen 2CE Signatures once. They actually have 3 capacitors in series, so I bypassed them with V-Caps. The treble sounded horrid, they used the 3 caps to tame the tweeters. So, if you send the cros... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? I was having an issue with brightness in my system, and was attempting to address it through interconnects. It turned out that an isolation transformer was needed, but it took a lot to convince me to try it. After all, with conventional power supp... | |
| Questions from a Tube Preamp newbie Hi Abery,1. It really depends upon the preamp and the quality of the tubes.2. NOT that I have noted, but I am no expert.3. A tremendous difference. I'd seriously look for some Telefunkens. I can't be sure about the 12AU7's, but I think Telefunken'... | |
| Vandersteen help needed Unfortunately the best solution to Vandersteens is to sell them. I had 1C and 2 CE Plus speakers years apart. I just sold the 1C speakers, back then I didn't tweak equipment. The 2CE speakers I bypassed some caps for the tweeter and ended up with ... | |
| I'm considering replacing my passive preamp with a tubes. Is it worth it? The thing about a tube preamp is that the preamp is just the start of things. IME, you begin with which tubes to go with. I prefer the 12AX tubes. I have an LS15 preamp with modifications to the SS DC section, soft recovery diodes, better caps, as... |