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| Your Nominations: Top Phono Stages under $1,000 I'll second that ARC PH-3 recommendation. Crazy good for the money. | |
| Soundsmith Zephyr MkIII, Boheme on VPI Classic 2 Companion The Boheme has 54 hours on it and it is sounding great. It sounds a lot better than the Black - to me. The guy who bought my Black loves it. Worked out great. Thank God we all have different ears! | |
| When and how did you, if at all, realize vinyl is better? 1986. The first time I ever heard a CD player coincidental with my first VPI table. No contest. | |
| Soundsmith Zephyr MkIII, Boheme on VPI Classic 2 Companion After speaking with Soundsmith, I decided on the Boheme. Thanks to all. | |
| Soundsmith Zephyr MkIII, Boheme on VPI Classic 2 Companion "I use the gimbal arm with the Sound-Smith Mimic Star and it is a perfect match, resonance of 10 Hz.. I have used the Zephyr on it and it was perfect also but the resonance was 12 Hz, still not an issue. Have not used your two choices." I unde... | |
| Soundsmith Zephyr MkIII, Boheme on VPI Classic 2 Companion Thanks for the replies. I am married, essentially, to my ARC PH-3 as a part of an all-ARC system I like. (I have bought nothing but ARC tube gear and VPI tables since the mid-eighties!) It is not compatible with MC cartridges. I chose the two Soun... | |
| Best sound tubes in Audio Research PH3SE I am trying a trio of matched SYLVANIA JAN 6DJ8/ECC88 "Green Hornets." They sound a little better to me than the ones I usually run, a set of Matsushita / National PCC88 / 7DJ8 Cryo'd from Upscale. I haven't quantified it yet, need some more hours... | |
| How best to place tubes in an ARC VT-130SE Thank you very much. | |
| How best to place tubes in an ARC VT-130SE matched quads aren't important. each matched pair should be placed in each push-pull pair. Which pairs would then represent "each push-pull pair." | |
| How best to place tubes in an ARC VT-130SE Then please explain to the OP where you would install the new tubes, he has, for the best output balance across each channel. Thanks for the clarification. I have the schematic and Owners/Users Manual...they are apparently not dumbed-down enoug... | |
| How best to place tubes in an ARC VT-130SE This amp is manually biased, which I keep a religious eye on. I have manually biased my previous Cary V-12R amp a few times over 10 years, after new tubes. The bias procedure for the output tubes seems pretty straight forward on the ARC VT-130SE g... | |
| How best to place tubes in an ARC VT-130SE Thank you. The previous owner of the amp advised me to put two of each quartet on each side of the amp, thus "averaging" them on each side, and as well "averaging" each side to the other. Or something like that. The Ruby 6550's in it now seem fine... | |
| Gain for VPI Companion with supplied Grado Statement Sonata 1.5mV I feel better. Don't wanna new phono preamp, sounds like I don't need one. Thanks to everyone. | |
| Gain for VPI Companion with supplied Grado Statement Sonata 1.5mV Thank you. Apparently, it is something new from Grado, a medium output moving iron, supposedly specially made and especially suitable for the arm on the Classic Companion. A Classic Companion is a Classic 2 with a gimbaled arm instead of the uni-p... |