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| Looking for right Mark Levinson Preamp to pair with No 532 Amp Defintely the ML 32* if you can find one but I think a SPL, LTA, or Coda preamp would be a good match. I think the 3 would provide a litle more micro-detail. The LTA Velo is suppose to be a great bargain for the price if you are looking for a tub... | |
| Gallium Nitride GaN Class D Amplifiers I agree with marco1. I heard the HiFi Rose GaN integrated at AXPONA with Piega speakers and it was very nice. Almost tube like but no "soul" or "glow". I listend for over an hour which demonstrated no listening fatigue. The presentation was "b... | |
| $8k for speakers - new or used What type "punch" are you looking for? Chest hitting bass, bass that you feel on your bottom while sitting on the couch, or quick and taut bass. I'm learning more "punch" means different to some. If it's the first 2 I described you are looking... | |
| High end bookshelf speakers for Small room Aerial Acoustics 5T are great speakers. If you like those, I'd recommend adding NSMT 15SE to the list. To me, it's the 5T with more transparency (lower noise floor/darker background), more solid soundstaging (placement of singer/instruments) and... | |
| Repair options for Placette passive linestage? Just want to make clear my unit didn’t have an issue and Guy just wanted to make sure I wouldn’t have any power supply issues down the road since he mentioned some do get flakey down the road. If I notice any oddity, just swap the ps unit he gav... | |
| Repair options for Placette passive linestage? Does sound like a power supply problem. Many years ago I asked Guy about a possible issue I thought I had and Guy was quick to send a power supply replacement. Very said that he is no longer with us and explains any he hasn’t responded to my em... | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread @ptrck887 I tried the SVS footers which good results with the DS preamp. I've unfortunately am moving from the DS preamp. It's a great tube preamp which I enjoyed and gave me a good introdution what a tube pre could sound in my setup. With m... | |
| The new NSMT Model 100 Speakers Still tinkering with the 12bh7 tubes in the Lector dac rotating the output and cathode follower tubes. Settled on Ratheon in the output and RCA (dimple getter) in the cathode follower. Something new to me compared to the Maggie 1.6 is that ... | |
| The new NSMT Model 100 Speakers My apologies for the late reply. Life has been busy and trying to squeeze in time to get everything settled in has been challenging. I'll follow up with more thoughts later but all I can say is that these speakers are very honest. The 100's wil... | |
| The new NSMT Model 100 Speakers After almost 20yrs with my Magnepan 1.6's it was time to move on (mainly due to delaminating). Thanks to TJ for introducing me to these and an opportunity to listening to them. I had to the priviliedge to finally own a pair thanks to his kindnes... | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread For fun, I rolled in some RCA (orange letter) in the output. Good tubes. Added some texture where is more velvet like smooth. Had more lower mid and upper bass. I didn’t find it as musical as the Raytheon and went back to the Raytheon a short ... | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread @wag12wag12 I agree the Shunguang cv-181 are good tubes. I could have left my setup with the 4 in my DS but that’s the not reason why I got a tube preamp. I wanted to roll some tubes. The combo I’ve settled on so far input Ken Rad vt231 bl... | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread Just ordered some ‘54 CBS/Hytron 6sn7gt (black base, white lettering). Hoping they will pull a bit more detail than the Shuguang like the 7n7 did but not be too in your face. Maybe a some top end “sparkle”. I’ll find out next week when I get th... | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread I’m back to using the Shuguang in the output buffer | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread @lous what soviet tubes do you have or recommend? Did a quick search and they are on the lower end which could be a fun tweak. VivaTubes has some for $13/tube. Are those the ones or do you have the Melz? |