mulveling
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| Adding tube sound to my SS system Personally, I didn’t find the Yggdrasil to bring me anywhere near to what I expect from "tube sound". It was a very good DAC to be sure, but still rather SS sounding. The Meridian DACs (566, 808 series) are not even R2R and get me closer to the so... | |
| Adding tube sound to my SS system https://tmraudio.com/components/preamplifiers/modwright-analog-bridge-tube-buffer/ @jbuhl Yep - the "Analog Bridge" by ModWright is a fantastic suggestion for OP that shouldn't get buried. And Dan Wright is truly a great guy. I almost picked u... | |
| Adding tube sound to my SS system @tkrtrb125 oh my bad lol. You are right; I scanned too fast. It's extra confusing because they make both BHK preamp and power amp units, and I think both are hybrids. | |
| Adding tube sound to my SS system @fuzztone that is not accurate unless you are using a Flea-watt Tube amplifier. Many PP Tube Integrated and Amplifiers on the market that will power inefficient speakers. AR, Unison, Jadis, Rogue, AH, Octave just to name a few. I have speakers w... | |
| Adding tube sound to my SS system This is sacrilegious, but I’ve experimented lately with SS lines stages versus my tube line stages. What I’ve concluded is that good SS line stages (Phison PD2 SE, Meridian 808v5) are highly transparent. When I add a good SS line stage in front of... | |
| Biwiring make any sense? What about biwiring with silver for High frequencies and copper for low frequencies ? I do this with AudioQuest KE-4 (15 AWG pure solid silver) up top and Mont Blanc (12 AWG solid copper) on bottom. Used to use this in my main rig, and now brou... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? You’re mistaken. There’s no SUT in my ARC Ref Phono 2SE. It uses an FET on the MC input. I’m pretty sure this is common on ARC phono preamps. @cleeds Correct - at least modern (and relatively recent) ARC Reference phono stages use a JFET based ... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? VAC It is much easier to make a transformer. I even made my own using top of the line Sowter cans. I could never make an active phono stage. I have placed Sowter cans inside preamps with MM phono stages with decent, but not spectacular results. ... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? @mulveling : I certainly respect your knowledge and your ears, and those of Kevin Hayes, too, having been a VAC man myself for a long time. But I have to disagree about the LL1931Ag. I recently picked up a last-gen K&K Maxxed Out with the sil... | |
| Refurbished / Re-tipped Cartridges - Are they worth Buying? My thoughts against non-manufacturer rebuilds / retips have softened somewhat over time - of course partially out of necessity, with more old masters passing on (more reports to come in the next several years, I’m sure). At some point I’ll need to... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? Personally, I wouldn’t get hung up on Copper vs Silver windings @lalitk @kennyc Totally agree - I became a SUT lover on "just" copper windings. In fact, tried the silver (Ag) version of Lundahl LL1931 (in a K&K box) versus the copper LL193... | |
| Kickstarter project No. Terrible business model for high end audio. Some huge failures. Lots of risk and long lead time pushed onto the "investor" with little reward. Even assuming you get the product, its end quality is an unknown. | |
| Amplifier Power tubes - important to sound? I've heard that before - various incarnations of "rolling tubes in this slot won't affect the sound", because "they're cathode followers with 100% feedback" etc. Still haven't met a slot that doesn't affect the sound. It's directly in the audio pa... | |
| The Audiophile Song - Who Can Relate? That's a great song + video!! Creative, and definitely captures the nature of our disease. I will say, if I got into speaker rolling like that, I probably would've been burned out of this hobby years ago. It totally shakes up the whole system ba... | |
| Experiences Selling Stuff On Audiogon? My experience here has been good, but the last few / several years I've been driven away because: High fees: higher than, and IN ADDITION TO, PayPal's, and The stifled communication between buyer & seller when you don't pay the fee up fron... |