markusthenaimnut
Responses from markusthenaimnut
| What made you change to a 6SN7 preamp? Here's a summary of my story. I had owned, used and enjoyed Naim equipment for several decades. When I got my Quad 63s and had a friend over he said "I wonder how these would sound with tubes..." Another friend had always run tube equipment. At o... | |
| Supratek Cabernet vs Cary SLP 05. One thing about the Supratek is that they have a lifetime guarantee. I expect the Cary sounds excellent. I own a Supratek Cortese, which is a higher priced model than the Chardonnay. It is wonderful. You probably won't go wrong with either one.... | |
| Naim Nait original @nicolascb Original Naits are worth much more than you might expect. They're a "thing". Really. IIRC, the one that Art Dudley spent time with had been "refurbished". Actually, much more than a mild refurbishment. I think it had been treated to a ... | |
| Researching SET Amps Here are a few thoughts from a user with a setup that should not work as well as it does --- My JBL 4430 monitors are only 93dB efficient. I'm driving them with a relatively old, and humble, 300B amplifier. My amp was originally sold as a kit by... | |
| Who Offers a Highly Musical Preamp using a 6SN7 tube and a remote? Great recommendations, I think, above. One of the nice things about so many of them is their high quality, robustness and reliability. I would not hesitate to pick up any one of them on the used market, if that was what I could afford, though I am... | |
| Should I upgrade my preamp/amp or my turntable? A Luxman integrated should be wonderful. I have a friend who has one of their very expensive integrateds (590? 509? Sorry, I don't remember which. It's about $9K USD list) and it sounds wonderful. A very beautiful piece of equipment, too. | |
| melody 2a3 mono amps A couple thoughts - I am not familiar with your speakers. I run 93 dB efficient JBL monitors with less than 8 watts per speaker and they have loads of bass, but they are using 15 inch woofers. I think the suggestion to play around with the pos... | |
| Naim? I owned and enjoy Naim equipment from about 1990 until 2019. It all sounded very good to me. I owned the 72 preamp but eventually replaced it with an 82 preamp. Both powered by a hicap. I went from the little 140 power amp through a couple of 25... | |
| What is the best 6SN7 driver tube? I think this is a good thread to resurrect. There are other threads on this topic on Audiogon where it was explored quite enthusiastically in the last few years. They are worth seeking out. I have obsessed and researched and bought and rolled man... | |
| Dynavector Karat 17D3: retip for $500 or get something new? I think I'm kinda late chiming in on this thread, but I only recently really *got* what @needlestein has been doing. After looking at the hundreds of pictures of his work he's posted on Instagram and the 1,100 positive feedback scores he's gotten ... | |
| Anyone try modern 6sn7 Shuguang WE type vs NOS RCA,Ken Rad I expect many of you will already know all this stuff I'm writing below. Some of you might even have the facts/chronology in your head better than I do. I share it here for those who *might not* have *been there at the time* and for whom it might ... | |
| Line Stage Preamps that blew you away $2500 Edition Well, a thought about passives. Theoretically they should sound better than an active, right? Well, one of the finest builders in the world, Emmanuel Go, the owner, designer and builder of First Sound, started out building passives. I heard one m... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Still the preamp deal of the century! | |
| Line Stage Preamps that blew you away $2500 Edition Interesting. I woulda thought this question had previously been discussed in enough detail that there would be no need to ask the question again. But hey! That's what we all love around here, isn't it? I mean, why else would I be joining in on th... | |
| Ortofon SPU Cartridges For those of you who use SPUs, what tonearm(s) have you found that work? Please share all the tonearms you've used that can accept a heavy cartridge like the SPUs. I've recently read in my owners manual for my Jelco 750L that, even with the optio... |