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| Replasment for Mullard Long Plates? Cool, Wolf. :)If/when you go for those "Great Mullards", try to hold out for some nice long-plates at a reasonable price...though the short plates & box plate CV4004 still yield gobs of warmth with at least a touch of the "magic". I also like ... | |
| Replasment for Mullard Long Plates? Wolf,We all have our own take on risk-aversion, but from my perspective you're overestimating the risk of vintage tubes. I've used tons of tubes from many different sources (including ebay) and most of the vintage tubes (advertised with good test ... | |
| Replasment for Mullard Long Plates? I second Morningstaraudio; the RCA 12AX7 long black plates are excellent, and would be my first choice as alternative to Mullard long plates. I've used the Mullard long-plates (halo getter), and my recollection is that the RCA are even a touch war... | |
| Opinions on Tannoy Canterbury SE? Hornguys,I'm in Marietta, very near the square. Unfortunately I've got severe agoraphobia that makes getting around even Atlanta very problematic (the awful traffic doesn't help). It's lucky that my Tannoy dealer is right down the block, but no Ca... | |
| Rogue Cronus Probably not in any meaningful way, since the KT77 seems to be rated at the same 25 Watts max plate dissipation as the EL34. That, and my impression is you'll need the power supply upgrades provided by the "Magnum" option to enable higher power ou... | |
| What is the best amplifier for Tannoy Kensington ? Here's the thing -- owning and Kensington SE and having heard the Yorkminster SE in my system, that 2dB extra efficiency and 6Hz bass extension of the latter makes a huge difference (shocking, even). The Kensington has the sweeter midrange, but it... | |
| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? Alón,Thanks for posting 1131 impressions - I surely understand your excitement (nothing better than improving a system you already love), and now you've really got me thinking about one! Geez, I guess I should also consider picking up a "beater" M... | |
| Tube Preamp Paired with Tube Phono Stage? Not all tube gear (amps & NOS tubes) has a warm coloration. In fact, a good deal of if it can be outright bright. However, I feel that tubes can pull off minor colorations - in either direction - far better than solid-state, and the tube rolli... | |
| Who listens only to vinyl? I've had a CD payer hooked up to my main cd less for than 3% of the time in the past 5 years. Haven't had any digital hookup for several months now. So that's pretty close to exclusive analog. Also have a R2R deck I'd have used a lot more if a dam... | |
| Which cost more: your system or your car? System - even with used market prices. Car is a brand new 2012 Honda Accord EX coupe. Nice car, and pretty safe, but nothing fancy. | |
| Tannoy Turnberry SE Imaging and Breaking In Congrats! Lovely speakers. Of course only time will tell for your case, but I became a fully realized Tannoy DC "life-er" about 5 years ago. I'd had a lovely experience with a pair of Eyris DC3 a few years before that, but foolishly experimented w... | |
| Rogue fans, what would you do??? If you want a fuller sound, then you can achieve that with any of the Rogue tube amps that can accommodate the KT120 (I believe the Atlas Magnum and up, though check with Rogue). I wasn't a big fan of the EH KT90, though some were/are - too lean f... | |
| Any way to reduce pre-amp noise floor? Thanks for clarifying the volume-control/noise behavior. Clearly the unit is muting the output at volume=0. I just looked up its specs: 25 dB of gain - holy COW that's a lot of gain (average these days seems to run ~ 11dB-14dB)! You're going to he... | |
| How will you split $3000 between phono and cart ? Get the GCPH and Cadenza Red. Both sound extremely good; I've had both the GCPH and the predecessor Ortofon Kontrapunkt ("a" and "c") in my system, and have fond memories of them. I've also extensively heard the 2M Black, which is an awesome cart ... | |
| Any way to reduce pre-amp noise floor? If the noise increases with the volume control, then that at least rules out the preamp's buffer output stage, and your amp. In a review of the ET3-SE, it's mentioned that this unit uses a single 6922 tube for voltage gain. They didn't mention whe... |