markusthenaimnut
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| Once you go 300b it’s hard to go back? I've recently been listening to my humble 300b stereo amp and I just wanted to say I think I'm in love. My Quad 909/ESL 2805 setup is pretty nice, but this little 300B amp into my ~94dB efficient JBL monitors is very engaging. Markus | |
| Potential Warmer Replacement for LS17SE One other thought occurs to me and that is to seek out a preamp based on the 6SN7 tube. The Supratek uses this tube, as does the Don Sachs. these are wonderful tubes and there are many, many options out there for tube rolling. | |
| Potential Warmer Replacement for LS17SE Consider a Supratek. On this site seek out the "Preamp Deal of the Century" thread. That thread is very easy to find of you click on the tab at the top for "popular all time"... | |
| Supratek Owners Thread I was satisfied with the packaging of my Cortese. Mick ships it with the tubes in the sockets and one tube was tilted by the styrofoam packaging insert but the pins straightened right out when I reinserted it. Mick thought it might have been opene... | |
| Supratek or Don Sachs - which way to go? My Cortese doesn't have the two shiny domes. It has compact, comparatively low profile heat sinks. I don't know why some preamps have the domes and some don't. I am guessing that it might have been an aesthetic choice Mick made some time in the pa... | |
| Tubes? Before you spend money, I encourage you to read Roger Sanders white paper on tubes vs. Solid state. Available on the Sanders sound systems website. Very helpful. | |
| Guidance on Speaker Wire Have you read any of the threads about Canare 4S11 around here? There are owners raving about this very inexpensive wire and you should be able to get custom lengths made for comparatively little money. | |
| Hopelessly Confused Golly. I’d find the prospect of reading that ultra-long thread daunting. I’m not saying that it doesn’t have value and that you won’t learn from it, but when I started reading it I began to have many questions. Frankly, I found the number of ampli... | |
| Mingus Ah Um by Mofi I have what I think is an important question.The original CBS release of these sessions had reverb added to it via (IIRC) something like the "reverb room" in the basement of the studio. When Mosaic Records did their exhaustive release of the Mingu... | |
| Supratek Owners Thread @highstream @hicham Here's what I think Joseph means regarding the "handpicked tubes" - the Supratek sounds incredible with the stock tubes. And Mick has carefully auditioned all the usual suspects to identify high-value, solid-performing, reliabl... | |
| GREAT NEWS! The Coda Technology new #16 amplifier will arrive this week I previously owned an InnerSound Electrostatic amplifier and loved it. For those who aren’t familiar with this amp, it is essentially a re-badged CODA from around 1999 - 2000. It was a superb amplifier. The only reason I sold it was that the prote... | |
| Shootout of Nos 6sn7 tubes Dear @lowrider57 and @shkong78 - might you be able to post pictures of your favorite Melz 1578 tubes and also the name of your trusted ebay sellers? From my research (much of which took place before this shootout thread was started) the desireable... | |
| Shootout of Nos 6sn7 tubes I’ve been reading this thread with interest. By chance, a few weeks ago I won a nice pair of NOS CBS 5692 red base tubes at a very good price.They have now replaced my much-enjoyed pair of Ken-Rad VT231. The CBS 5692s do not seem to be as sought a... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Hi @jaymark Another Don Sachs owner who lives not terribly far from me and I were going to get together to compare our preamps last year. But we were never able to get our schedules lined up. I hope it can happen this year. | |
| MHDT Orchid or Lampizator Amber 3? @grannyring Hey - did you ever post your impressions/review of the Amber 3 you (IIRC) picked up? If so, I missed it - please point me in the right direction. I'm curious how big the difference is between the Orchid and the Amber 3 (not that I coul... |