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| Upgrading from Wilson Sophia 2's? Your room is way to narrow for Avalon. I feel your pain with the Wilson speaker. Over time I felt the same thing with my WP8. Given you room size you have options. Maggies have new speakers coming out so I would wait. Rockport makes a nice speaker... | |
| Upgrade question No it wouldn't be an upgrade from your Theta. It would be a downgrade. | |
| VAC Signature Preamplifier mkII Audiobrian I really thought solid Brass feet from mapleshade under both the power supply and the main unit really helped with the VAC. Enjoy it... | |
| VAC Signature Preamplifier mkII Your right....SorryI also tired some Ken Rads and RCA 6sn7. The Ken rad really added to the bass (to much) and the RCA really warmed it up but slowed it down. The Sylvania pre 1955 was very good and they are very close to the Tung sol. Email membe... | |
| VAC Signature Preamplifier mkII "I have done a lot of tube rolling in the Io and Callisto and Aria and the rebuilt SA-2 power supplies to know the benefits of tubes in a PS."There are also benefits in not having rectifier tubes in power supplies. Some of the very preamps in the ... | |
| VAC Signature Preamplifier mkII Sorry TS roundplates. | |
| VAC Signature Preamplifier mkII I changed out all 4 position with TD round plates. | |
| VAC Signature Preamplifier mkII "Janus will NEVER have the magic of an Io or Callisto"Not true just ask Jim White how close the Signature is to the IO and Callisto. This is why the Eclipse came out. You should not commit on something unless you have heard first hand and on gear ... | |
| VAC Signature Preamplifier mkII The new signature is a whole different animal. They sound just as good as the IO. The non signature does have it's faults but for $3000 Signature upgrade the faults are fixed. I thought the line stage in the Janus signature was better then the ren... | |
| VAC Signature Preamplifier mkII If your looking for a preamp with built in phono, the new Janus Signature is amazing and at $10,000 it's a steal. This is coming from a guy who has had the VAC sig MKII, VTL 7.5 and others. The VTL did not have built in phono but the VAC did. The ... | |
| Amplifier question for powering Wilson Sophia Put a VT100 MKIII on those and sit back and enjoy. Sophia's do sound much better with tube amps. VTL also works very well. | |
| Comparison of ARC Ref3 and C-J CT5 I've had both and liked the CJ better. I think the Ref 3 over does it. The Ref 5 fixes a lot of those issues as did the LS26. The new CJ amps and preamps are very very good. The teflon used inside are second to none. | |
| CAT JL-3 Sig Mk2s direct from Wadia 781i? You will need a preamp. I tried the Wadia's volume control a few times with the 581ise and it does benefit from a good preamp. | |
| BAT SS amps VS Ayre MX-R I would agree with Bryceeboy. I wasn't really impressed with my MXR and there are much better amps around the same price. Boulder makes very good solid state gear. | |
| Is Levinson 33 still a reference standard today??? The No.33 are still a reference amp. Ask JA at stereophile as I think he still has his 33H. The 3XX sound nothing like the 33 and the 4XX sound more like solid state amps. The 33 needs a ton of amps to preform at it's best that is why the 33H work... |