meiatflask
Responses from meiatflask
| What preamp creates the largest soundstage? Kalali- I think you make a lot of sense. Once you have strong candidates, it is probably a “how” the soundstage is rendered. And perhaps once one is willing to spend (what to me is) a reasonable amount of money, most of the candidates are prett... | |
| What preamp creates the largest soundstage? Jtcf- I am big fan of the LTA in general, but that is the preamp I home demoed and the soundstage was disappointing, much smaller compared to my naim solid state. Otherwise, I would have bought it, and would not be on this quest. However, I did ... | |
| What preamp creates the largest soundstage? Atmosphere- is the mp-3 balanced only for input and output? Can I use RCAs? | |
| What preamp creates the largest soundstage? Batman1971- Never heard of graaf. I see they are an Italian company, but can’t tell much more. Are they readily available in US?phantom_av- it has been years since I have listened to Atma-sphere. I will check into them. Per their website, th... | |
| What preamp creates the largest soundstage? Audiojan- okay, the amp is the Primaluna HP in stereo mode, four EL34s per channel. While I assume the matching Primaluna preamp would give good synergy, I have not heard that the Primaluna preamps are anything special. | |
| Gold Lion KT77 tubes for Primaluna Amp - a few questions Johnss- tell me more about the coupling caps. Are there any references, or instructions/pictures/youtubes available and where do buy the caps from? I assume this is not rocket science and is easily done by anyone who is good with a soldering iron.... | |
| What were your humble beginnings on the path to high end audio? As a teenager in the 70s, I started with mid fi stuff, but purchased a Advent 300 (Tom Holman) reciever and Rogers LS3/5a speakers. I read the Audio Critic, and was fortunate to have local dealers for both of these products so I could audition.I g... | |
| Reference 3a Grand Veena for a small room? Jbrrp1- thanks for the observation. | |
| Joseph Audio dealers Any Chicago-Milwaukee area dealers? I would like to give them a listen, too. | |
| Reference 3a Grand Veena for a small room? d2girls- I had not heard of (or heard) the reflectors. Tell me more? | |
| Reference 3a Grand Veena for a small room? SOunds like the consensus from all four of you at my small room in nearfield is not ideal for the grand veenas. I kind of suspected that, which is why I have had stand mounted monitors forever. It was probably 25 years ago I owned my last pair o... | |
| Tube Preamps..... @jsm71 - What about the LTA MZ2 jumped out for you as better than the Cary/CJ/Mac? | |
| most advanced speaker in a rectangular wooden box? Another vote for Proacs, although the original Rogers LS3/5a circa 1976 we quite a nice little box. | |
| Tube Preamps..... @doni - I had a brief listen to the LTA MZ2, and was very impressed. With the remote, separate power supply etc, it is still only $2300. Line stage only, and only two inputs if I recall. I am curious how it would stack up against a used conrad ... | |
| EL34 tubes- alternates to matched octet for Primaluna HP dialogue premium @tooblue - sounds like an offer I can’t refuse. How do we do this? Can you send me a message/email outside of the discussion so we can word out the details directly? |