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| How good is the Dodd battery powered preamp ? The "New" BENT is like a TVC but it uses a autoformer (by Slagle) instead of a transformer. I am very interested in comparing these two as I buy into the idea of being off the grid -- question is, is there an advantage to building additonal gain o... | |
| How good is the Dodd battery powered preamp ? Just ordered a new version of the Dodd, with four battery operation. We'll see. It will be interesting to compare with my "off-the-grid" Bent TAP w/autoformer. | |
| How good is the Dodd battery powered preamp ? I do like the marketing strategy (30-day trial). Others that use it are Placette and BENT Audio. | |
| Music Reference RM9 - user comments please Roger's tubes are amazingly well matched in circuit. It really makes me question some of the folks out there selling "matched" pairs and quads. I won't name names but you do wonder if some of these tubes really are matched. Roger's are for sure. I... | |
| How good is the Dodd battery powered preamp ? Seems like you prefer the new Red Wine. Does make me pause to see what the consensus will be for their new preamp. | |
| How good is the Dodd battery powered preamp ? Hi Maruisz, I'll look for the thread. | |
| How good is the Dodd battery powered preamp ? Any new comments on the Dodd? | |
| Music Reference RM9 - user comments please He should have something soon. Apparently a balanced autoformer design is a bit trickier than with a transformer. I was expecting to prefer the EL34 as well. Does the Avatar also run KT88s, or just EL34s? | |
| Music Reference RM9 - user comments please Well, I got Roger's KT88 RAM and let's just say that I sold my back up set of Siemens EL34s (still have the originals). It (RM9SE) sounds like a different amp with the KT88s. Better dynamics, more controlled and tuneful bass, and bigger, more expa... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 amps Rushton, are your feelings about the MP3 based on the phonostage and the linestage? I'm using the MP3 with the VCAP and Powersupply upgrade and it sounds very good to me. I've heard more universal praise for the MP1, but I'm wondering if that is b... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 amps Agree on no best at everything. I tend to prefer neutral because euphonic coloration is alays there, though possibly always pleasant. With equipment on the neutral side of things, different recording sound quite different from each other acoustica... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 amps Tim, Tom, are both of your observations with Atma-sphere preamps? I do wonder about the issue of "pleasant" distortion, and no reason not to seek it if it sounds good, why not? - but is this the sort of thing you hear in live, unamplified music? | |
| 5 Years or More? I'm keeping the Merlins. I mean it this time:) | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 amps Rushton's comments on the driver tubes are right on. I found a combination of RCA GT Grey glass with Sylvania GTBs to be just right, the RCA are a bit more "romantic" sounding than the Sylvania and just right in combination for my ears. Same thing... | |
| TVC preamps: good or bad? The BBAM is between DAC and BENT. That is the recommended approach? |