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| Have There Ever Been Fake Koetsu? @scm The pictures are of a legit Koetsu. Seller is in Japan, so you'll probably get a legit Koetsu. I thought the "Signature" model had the different body shape and metal cover with "lip" like the higher end Urushi & RSP, but it they might h... | |
| Tube Preamps Should Have This Feature mulveling, I thought tubes didn’t like on/off cycles. @inna Maybe, if you turn gear on/off a dozen times every day. Who does that? Or if your component slams full voltage on plates immediately, before heaters have a chance to bring cathodes to... | |
| Audio Research Financial Troubles These threads are really just lightning rods to bring out the "I don't like Audio Research" guys 😅 We'll see another one, same purported topic, in a few months at most. | |
| Tube Preamps Should Have This Feature Having a hard time seeing the use case here. Tubes are designed to get up to optimal temperature very quickly - that’s what the "heater" is for. Transistors can be a very different (and frustrating) story on this front, plus they overheat easily a... | |
| Thank You Fumihiko Sugano and Koetsu All high end MC brands sound different. Most of these sounds are truly excellent, just different. Koetsus have a particularly distinct sound (on the side of: voluptuous & full bodied, with a very vivid midrange), and are extremely good at what... | |
| Audio Research Financial Troubles If you are really in the market, have you looked on Audiogon or USAudiomart recently? There is plenty to chose from at attractive prices. Is it true? Go to hifishark and filter by "North America". Then I see none of the Reference 3 phono preamp... | |
| Audio Research Financial Troubles This discussion is about 6 months late; ARC’s issues have been resolved with what must be very close to the best possible outcome. If ARC was swept up by another huge corporate conglomerate, OR passed to another small owner in over his head, there... | |
| Thank You Fumihiko Sugano and Koetsu Sad new indeed for this storied and magical company. And with the future still unknown, I finally made the jump and ordered a Blue Lace, something that has been on my wish list for quite some time. I was luckily able to find one available and it ... | |
| Herron Audio...Still in business Owner decided not to sell the Herron amps, but he did sell me a VTPH-1 phono stage. From what I've read, they were available as either a MM or MC model. The one I bought has both MM and MC listed next to the model number on the rear. Any idea ho... | |
| Herron Audio...Still in business I bought a Herron VTPH-2A phono stage direct from Keith in 2018. I’m not affiliated with Herron nor an insider, but the bits and pieces I’ve gathered are as follows: Keith discontinued the VTPH-2A and went into semi-retirement a couple years ag... | |
| Warm vs Revealing—the struggle for balance Oh yeah - been on both sides of that struggle too many times: Fun, dynamic and lively sound, BUT too aggressive and fatiguing, or leaving the midrange AWOL (a dry midrange is a non-starter for me, which is probably why I've gravitated to VAC elect... | |
| -20 DB Volume Measurment I'm sure others will cover the technical aspect adequately. I'd just like to note that in your scenario, it's dangerous to assume you have 20dB of headroom available on your amp (dangerous if you try to push it in that direction). It doesn't work ... | |
| Curious Why Benz Micro Slid Into Obscurity I don’t like constant innovation, innovation is not always an indication of improvement, perhaps in terms of measurements but listening ears could say the opposite and I don’t appreciate factories that put new products on the market that replace ... | |
| Curious Why Benz Micro Slid Into Obscurity @narrowfellow Electrically, your OG Glider 0.9mV is similar to output of a modern Glider SM (or M2) at 0.8mV, but with almost twice the coil impedance: 41 ohms versus 24. It's still an OK match to a SUT, but not as good as a newer SM or SL, and ... | |
| Curious Why Benz Micro Slid Into Obscurity @sbank Yes, I tried the LPS with Renaissance SE phono stage which has the same MC SUT inside as Ren V (also had a Ren V but did not use its onboard phono). Those Lundahl LL1931 worked OK on the 8x (lower) setting, but it was not my favorite. The... |