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| Modern "Vintage" Sounding Preamps Big fan of the Tubes4HiFi SP14. Rich and warm 6SN7 preamp ersand plenty of clarity in detail. | |
| Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment Sunvalley SV-EQ1616D phono stage. I upgraded mine with VCAP ODAM output caps Sparkos voltage regulators in the power supply. Vivid and energetic sound. Very captivating. | |
| Moving away from inefficient/low impedance speaker in order to move to a Tube Amp My Omegas rock with very few watts. Worth a gander. | |
| Best Phono You've Heard Under $2200 Sun Valley SV-EQ1616D. Very vivid and energetic sounding. Good tube rolling options and excellent EQ options for people who like to collect older records. | |
| Best Mesh WiFi System I'm an IT guy, and I would say the best mesh system for home use is the Netgear Orbi. Pricey, but I have not seen anything else that works as well. | |
| What are we going to do about Tele 12AU7 prices Have you tried the Sophia Electric 12AU7? I hear got things | |
| American Audio Omega Speakers. Full range drivers and cabinets all made here in the USA. | |
| Phono preamp tube rolling. Rolling some 12AX7 tubes in my Sun Valley phono pre. I found the Genalex Russian tubes to be way too bright and glaring. Brent Jesse turn to be on to some RCA vintage gray plates and those were pretty perfect. My music is mostly rock and roll. Jaz... | |
| LTA Ultralinear vs SET amps I felt the same way about my former 300B monoblocks. Bought and built the Elekit TU-8600 with Lundahl transformers and that fixed it for me. It's an excellent amp And those transformers have such a vigorous and authoritative sound. Definitely not ... | |
| Reasonably sensitive speakers for tube amps, max $2k/pair, new or used Omega Speakers. Great options, high sensitivity and priced well. | |
| A full range speaker? Omega speakers does an excellent job with their full-range drivers. They have several speakers they call "high output" in which two identical drivers are run but the second is cut off at 200hz so it only adds bass and low end and dynamics (improve... | |
| Which Tube Phono Pre Amo? Sun Valley SV-EQ1616D. Save yourself some coin and buy it as a kit or have the folks in Japan assemble it for you. Just read the Stereophile review if you need convincing. Even mentions trying it with an Ortofon Black. | |
| Speaker Cables? why all the hype for expensive speaker wire? Terms like "expensive" and "basic" how relative, but I can give my experience.For years I just use the basic Amazon speaker wire for all my stuff because it was nice and cheap. Then I got some tinned copper speaker wire from Jupiter condenser. To ... | |
| Looking for an amp that punches way about its weight and I can grow with Ditto on the Bob Latino VTA-120 amp. With good coupling capacitors and a good rectifier, It's really excellent. Very wide top end. And, if you've got efficient speakers, you can switch into triode mode for that rich mid-range sound. | |
| Upscale Audio and Primaluna Those folks are one town over for me, so I go to them for tubes and I actually bought my Rega turntable from them as well. Not a bad company to buy from.That being said, they are very salesy. The amount they push primaluna gear makes it very obvio... |