oddiofyl
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| Selling off Tubes for Solid State, A Cooler Love Story? Getting cold up here in Boston.... think its time to swap out the EL34 s for some KT88 to keep toasty..... | |
| Line Stage Preamps that blew you away $2500 Edition I almost bought a Backert Rhumba, heard great things about it. The most impressive thing about the Zesto is despite being tube it's super quiet. 99dB speakers, no signal, turn the volume to 3 o'clock and nothing... silence. Not even the norm... | |
| Line Stage Preamps that blew you away $2500 Edition Agree with Runwell.... I just bought a Zesto Leto , it was NIB leftover but never sold. I paid $3500, worth every penny. I would look for something out of your reach new that you can afford used . That Zesto made it sound like I literally... | |
| Selling off Tubes for Solid State, A Cooler Love Story? Those early Pass Aleph got so hot the black anodizing turns purple..... really good Class A designs run pretty hot and use as much idle current as a tube amp | |
| Selling off Tubes for Solid State, A Cooler Love Story? Sorry to hear you are moving away from tubes.....SS is nice but ....... | |
| When choosing new Speakers, what matters most to you? They gotta make me tap my toes.... they need to disappear when i close my eyes and sound bigger than they are .... | |
| Grado Headphone hack Yes, I picked up a pair of the G cushions for my RS2e and it was worth it. They are more comfortable too | |
| Highest value pre under 1.5k used? So why not call Mike at QS and see about getting it repaired.... I bet its worth the cost to repair. | |
| VTL preamps and amps, co status? Buy an early VTL , they had a lifetime transferable warranty and let us know you like it .... | |
| When choosing new Speakers, what matters most to you? They have to sound like live music..... and horns do that for me. Don't really care about specs.... how do they sound is more important | |
| Stand mount to floor stand. Fantastic speaker. They rarely pop up used..... | |
| Sound difference of RME ADI-2 DAC with AK4490 chip (old ) and the AK4493 (new ) It has been said on their forum that there is no audible difference between the 4493 and the ESS chip version. I have the last version with AKM and it is a great DAC. I appreciated its sound quality even more after I upgraded my preamp. It real... | |
| VTL preamps and amps, co status? Money grab..... | |
| Ok to substitute 12AX7 for 5751 tubes in CJ Amp? I would contact Jeff at CJ on that one. | |
| Preamp thoughts- Conrad Johnson ET7 S2 V McIntosh C2600 Listen to a Zesto Leto if you can.... incredible sou ding preamp |