o_holter
Responses from o_holter
| Preamp for Aesthetix / Atma-sphere An A-B testPlaying Ane Brun: These days (from the It all starts with one LP)(System: Lyra Atlas / SME V / Hanss T30 / Io Eclipse / Einstein The Tube / Atma-sphere MA-1 / Audiokinesis Dream Makers)A - direct from Io Eclipse to MA-1 ampsB - through ... | |
| Preamp for Aesthetix / Atma-sphere Thanks Jafox - I will try. I also have a Tele au7 and a pair of Siemens 6922 coming. Will be interesting. Did you try the Hytron? Are you saying, you preferred the Einstein to the Callisto Sig? Albert - thanks, very interesting. If I had known tha... | |
| Preamp for Aesthetix / Atma-sphere Ditto HMS Donovan, the original Dawn double LP - amazing, an overlooked gem. This preamp makes Donovan a folk singer, quite rightly, but I can hear him rock out too, no problem. Donovan took the consequence of "the youth revolution" and created a ... | |
| Preamp for Aesthetix / Atma-sphere Experiences from other Audiogon members regarding The Tube, especially in combination with good tube phono stages and amps, are of course very welcome too. | |
| Preamp for Aesthetix / Atma-sphere As well as other tests:Deep Purple, Shield (from Book of Taliesyn LP) - wow!New Vermont LP - same - best sound so farDiana Krall and various jazz - also very goodThe Einstein The Tube preamp perhaps excels even more in the "energetic" than in the ... | |
| Preamp for Aesthetix / Atma-sphere CBS Hytron - Albert, I think you are right. I just listened, quite loud, to Chicago Transit Authority: Poem 58. Utterly amazing. Right there. The tube stays. | |
| Preamp for Aesthetix / Atma-sphere Again, many thanks! I agree about testing, going slow, and taking time. I will compare the Sylvania, the Hytron and soon also a Telefunken 12au7. | |
| Subwoofer: should we even use them at all? For what its worth, here are some tricks I learned living with a Velodyne DD18:-do as much of the setup in the analog domain as possible. Move the sub, adjust position, height etc before doing anything digital / EQ. In my ears, the less EQ the bet... | |
| Any thoughts on removing a preamp from your system My experience equals others in this thread. I would not say I have given up on "resolution", but for me also, "musicality" is even more central. Last year, I tested the Aesthetix Io phono stage direct and through preamps so much that I started to ... | |
| Preamp for Aesthetix / Atma-sphere Thanks Atmasphere. With so may tubes in my system I should probably have gotten a tube tester long ago. I will check possibilities. | |
| Subwoofer: should we even use them at all? So what is the conclusion?The thread starter was warned against a sub due to "the lack of coherence that inheres in adding a subwoofer". I think this is system and room dependent. Bass has to be integrated anyway. There is no general rule that it ... | |
| Preamp for Aesthetix / Atma-sphere Apropos tube rolling: in this case I got a preamp that according to the seller was bought new in 2011 or so, has been left on mostly, and has not had any tube change. So that is 3-4 years of running. Is "best practice" in this case, take out all t... | |
| Preamp for Aesthetix / Atma-sphere Hi Albert Porter - you wrote "the Einstein gets a massive upgrade when you remove the 12AU7 tubes and replace with 5814 CBS Hytron" - do you remember, what 12AU7? I got the Hytron today, and have tried a few hours. Promising. It turned out, there ... | |
| Any thoughts on removing a preamp from your system Could be right Czarivey. Or the back bone, I am thinking, since I have a prolapsis now. Whatever the analogy, it is central. Listening now to the integrated Ming Da Mc-34a amp and Aurum Cantus speakers at my cottage. It can't compare to my main ri... | |
| Subwoofer: should we even use them at all? Hi all. Bo1972 - dynamics is no problem wherever the dd18 is placed. It is a very forceful sub. The trouble is integration, as I am sure everyone here is aware of. If you think the sub is too slow, do the obvious thing, move it up front, closer to... |