radicalsteve
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| Bel Canto Ref 1000 vs. Spectron Musician III Mk 2 Just to be clear, my Spectrons were great amps and a major upgrade over my various tube amp iterations, but class A (for me) seems to have the upper hand if you are looking for that emotional connection - but as someone said in the thread it is sy... | |
| Bel Canto Ref 1000 vs. Spectron Musician III Mk 2 Kiwi,I owned the Spectrons (monoblocks with bybee and v-caps) with my CLX's. They were very nice with my ML ReQuests, but with the enormous resolving power of the CLX's I found the Spectrons were brittle, lacking in depth and sounding strained. Wi... | |
| Unhappy with tubes so which transistor amp? I have the Plinius SA-250 with Logan CLX's and would say it was very textual rather than laid back. Definitely the soundstage goes further back than leaping before the speakers, but for me that gives a more realistic dimensional presentation with ... | |
| Advice re PC for Plinius amp thanks for the ideas. Just to be clear (as I clearly was not in my initial post) the hum is not at the amp, it is back thru the system and it gets much louder when I move the amp to class A mode via its selector switch,I am intrigued by Horseface'... | |
| 47 Labs Mc Bee MC I had one for a few months, but could never get it to "sing". My dealer had it on a project TT w/carbon fiber arm - sounded very smooth, but at home it just never had the top end and sounded dull and lethargic when compared to the very best. Howev... | |
| upgrade from Sonic Frontiers Line 1 to 3 SE+ ? As time marches on, so do circuit designs. The Line 3 is still a venerable design, still supported and still world class. I did move on to an MBL 6010D and for a lot more $$$ I did get a preamp that had more synergy with my Spectron amps and proba... | |
| Direct Drive turntables Dertonarm,absolutely oil pressure bearing and maybe magnetic all serve the function it seems to me - which is to remove the impact of noise transmission from the drive system. If you think about it, typical bearing systems are rather crude whateve... | |
| Direct Drive turntables Had them all from Linn to Lenco, to Technics and Teres rim drive and my own observation comes down to balancing acoustic isolation of the whole deck and arm , with speed constancy and reducing bearing / plinth noise transmitted back through the vi... | |
| Review: ALLNIC HT 2500 Head Amplifier Nuvistor Tube preamp A great review indeed. I have the guilty pleasure of owning 3 head amps - the C-7 mentioned by Carl,the bigger brother and my reference the C-17 and a ZYX CPP1. I have gone back and forth with head amps versus transformer loading (Altec 4722's) an... | |
| which is better ? MC phono stage or MM+step-up ? A great question and very dependent on a large number of variables, so difficult to say what is "better". I have tried various SUT's and head amps into my Aesthetix IO Sig, primarily to cut down on the tube rush at high gain (you remove some tubes... | |
| Phono stages belong to which tier? I have had quite a few phono stages over the years in my systems and in general tube based amps seem to provide the organic texture that dovetails with the vinyl experience. Having said that, more recent design SS stages that I have had really per... | |
| Kimber 8TC or NBS King/Serpent speaker cables Tried many different cables over the years, long, short, all flavors and price points and the 8TC just lets the music flow - period. I have really expensive gear and the 8TC is as good as it it will ever get, whatever the $$$$ you might want to sp... | |
| Allnic Verito Z:Owners and those familiar Tpsonic, frustrating indeed - and sometimes that is how I feel about my whole audio system. I have just acquired a brilliant piece of gear - the Accuphase C17 head amp. I don't need a head amp for gain, but the incremental improvement this unit ad... | |
| Allnic Verito Z:Owners and those familiar Very pleased with mine, but it took a long time (>100hours) to dial in. I can compare it with a ZYX UNIverse. The Z is full bodied compared to the airy ZYX. Soundstage is either focused or narrow, versus the ZYX which is either wide or diffuse ... | |
| Best Arm for Raven One? FWIW I have the 507Mk2 and compared it against various arms on my Micro-Seiki RX5000 or SX 8000 ,including Triplanar,SME V,Grandezza,FR, Ikeda, Moerch to name but a few and the Dynavector has stayed the course along with the Grandezza. It seems to... |