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| Sony SCD-XA5400ES-Best SACD for under $10,000 Current audiogon ad by modwright stating it is their best digital offering. For price of a good interconnect they do a mod that is out of this workd good!ModWright Sony XA-5400ES Truth ModsOur best digital offering, period! Also the best and last ... | |
| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? Music Direct has 30 day return - do they carry either? Of the two the Herron is dead quiet. | |
| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? Alonski,Those two are true gentlemen. I am grateful that we have hi end brands in the US led by amazing audio entrepranuers who are also first class people. The VAC phono is first rate and in my system it easily beat 1-2k phono stages (eg, Simaudi... | |
| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? I have the Herron VTPH 2 and it outperforms the built in phono stage in my VAC Ren Mk III pre. Lower noise, better resolving and transparency etc. i had tube rush and noise in vac phono and a new tube fixed it so you should try that for sure. Whil... | |
| Magnepan 1.7 w/ Tubes & lots of Class D Power Empirical Design custom maggie jumpers are awesome. I prefer them over cardas (have brand cardas if anyone wants to buy them). Hifi supreme tuning fuses made a big difference in my 3.7s. | |
| Magnepan 3.7's versus 20.1's? I heard 20.7s werent dropping til june. | |
| Best tube rolling options for VAC Ren MkIII preamp I should add...what i find hard to replicate is the open extended airy highs of stock 6sn7 tubes | |
| Best tube rolling options for VAC Ren MkIII preamp Ok i clearly need to make a second run at this! I would let the amp warm up for an hour before critical listening but didnt burn in jan, ken rad etc input tubes. I will do that and give it a second listen. Part of my impatience was tied to others'... | |
| Best tube rolling options for VAC Ren MkIII preamp Not on a nos tube. I didnt need more than an hour with stock input tubes to appreciate their sonic character. Unlike components and cables i havent heard much change over time with tubes even my sophia 6sn7 tubes. Maybe my ears are not evolved eno... | |
| Pass 250.5 shuts down driving Magnepan 3.7 I am very adverse to silver in your face etchy sound. The Emp Designs are transparent and fast but not forward. | |
| Best tube rolling options for VAC Ren MkIII preamp Will do, Mr. Wig. | |
| Pass 250.5 shuts down driving Magnepan 3.7 I tried the Cardas jumpers (have a new set if anyone wants to buy them). It was like using resistors...Cardas smoothed/dampened the sound out a little too much for my likes. The Empirical Designs are the bomb. | |
| Best tube rolling options for VAC Ren MkIII preamp did some swapping this weekend. nothing matches stock tubes for clear clean highs on vac 300.1a. anyone want to buy barely used (1 hour) 2 matched pairs of Ken Rad 6sn7s drop me a line. | |
| Pass 250.5 shuts down driving Magnepan 3.7 And the stock tweeter jumpers are lousy. I replaced my jumpers with the Duelund Cast .6 resistor on the tweeter and an Empirical Designs custom jumper for the midrange. | |
| magnepan 1.7 or 3.7 vs spendor s8e 3.7s have body and weight that I didn't hear in 1.7s so don't give up on Maggies for that reason... |