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| Replacement for my Benz Micro Ruby Benz are still being made, and better than ever, but their days of mass distribution into North America are long gone. Look at the dealer ads here on audiogon. "Kron" sells the modern Benz line, and they sound excellent. I’ve bought a few Benz fro... | |
| Rogue RP-1 or Schiit Freya I’m still not sure if I want the maintenance involved in a tube preamp, I did encounter instances of distortion with the Freya+ in tube mode. I think if you’re going to get the most out of a tube setup, you need to be willing to roll a few tubes.... | |
| Tube Integrated vs Tube Seperates The preamp section of tube integrated amps is usually pretty weak - like a 12au7 or 2, ugh. The volume control quality is also crucial, and often compromised here compared to what you’d get in a standalone pre. In some ways it seems like a good i... | |
| Rogue RP-1 or Schiit Freya I haven’t had the best luck with Schiit. Owned a Yggdrasil twice, and each time it developed issues. Sound quality was good, but subject to overhype online. I’ve owned several Rogue pieces and they’ve all been extremely reliable - and customer se... | |
| Rogue M-150's sonic flavour Thank you for your contribution to this 18 year old thread. 😂 @sholtz 's tube rolling advice was solid, though. Big Rogue amps sound clean, neutral, and dynamic. Definitely not warm sweet and lush like a "classic" tube amp. But they are indeed... | |
| ARC vs VAC preamp upgrade..... VAC (Ren V, Master) is generally warmer, more full bodied and voluptuous sounding; ARC (Ref 6) is cleaner, more nimble and neutral with just a touch of sweetness. Both are great; system matching is up to you. | |
| Peeking inside a Carver Crimson 275 Tube Amplifier The Carver 350s are built like tanks but cost $9,500 for a reason. This Carver 275 is a nice entry level audiophile product (akin to solid state Rotel 1500 series units). I’m buying the Mac: tried and true 100wpc @8ohms/160 @ 4---with a true .00... | |
| Tannoy Stirlings on the way! @astolfor I'm really surprised by that. I think it smells lovely. I've treated a few times with Tannoy's wax and once with the Liberon Black Bison (exact same thing), and always enjoyed the smell the next few days with no ill effect. I suppose e... | |
| Review of Quadratic MC-1 SUT With Comparisons to Other SUTs I wouldn't expect an MC SUT to experience any notable sonic degradation in its lifetime. To think about it another way - the OPTs in tube amps from the 1950s & 60s still sound excellent as long as they weren't egregiously abused and trashed - ... | |
| Does anyone have any experience with the LSA VT70? Thoughts, comparisons?? Apparently is another Mark Schifter project, of the infamous AV123 implosion, not to mention going to prison for charity fraud. How many chances does this guy get in this industry? I guess with Underwood fronting things, people will actually get p... | |
| Peeking inside a Carver Crimson 275 Tube Amplifier My buddy has spacial turbos M3 and drives them with 400 watts oer channel of class D amps, he borrowed my crimson 275 and said he had to keep the volume at 1/4 which was less than the class D and indicated the sound was better.Tube amplifiers in ... | |
| Can one have too many tube components in a system? SS gear has a hiss noise floor too. A well designed & implemented tube preamp and tube power amp pairing should be dead quiet, even with ear up to drivers, on 96 dB speakers. I can’t speak to efficiencies beyond that. You’ll run into problems ... | |
| Peeking inside a Carver Crimson 275 Tube Amplifier Is it 60W sustained if that blew the fuse? Haha, good point. I'm sure putting in a larger fuse value might allow Bob's circuit magic to be unleashed. Of course you have to insert the fuse JUST right, because as we all know now, the grounding in... | |
| Peeking inside a Carver Crimson 275 Tube Amplifier To be fair, the ASR measurements show it performing a lot better into 8 ohms: 60 Watts/ch sustained at 1kHz, and at less than 1% THD. The really bad numbers, where it greatly underachieves its rated power (< 20 Watts/ch), are into 4 ohms. Witho... | |
| Antique Sound Labs I remember when I first got into higher quality audio with headphones, in the early 2000s, their MG Head tube headphone amp was quite popular - but that fizzled quickly as the headphone amp market rapidly developed. Then I remember seeing their Hu... |