salectric
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| It was 20 years ago today. . What was your system? Thiel 3,6 speakers, Classe DR-10, ARC PH-1, LS-2, VPI 19 Mk3 with ET-2, JVC CD player. Nothing remains in my system today, but the VPI is still spinning just fine in my son's system. | |
| Last time you felt that "tingling" sensation? Yes, thanks for sharing the Nancy Wilson link. Absolutely superb! | |
| Dueland CAST PIO Vapor1, I didn't mean to offend, but in the context we are talking about----Duelund CAST, V-Cap TFTF and CuTF, and Sonicap Platinum---the OIMP falls considerably short. I also don't find it to be a particularly good value. For the same or less mon... | |
| Dueland CAST PIO Oops, I left out a word in my last post. I meant to say that an OIMP cap is not a particularly good sounding cap, with or without a bypass, and a Duelund CAST cap should surpass it easily and pretty much in all respects. | |
| Dueland CAST PIO A single Duelund CAST cap (no bypass) will sound significantly better than an OIMP with or without a V-Cap bypass. I am not a fan of numerical descriptions of sonic differences---What does it mean to say something is 10% better? But the benefits o... | |
| Dueland CAST PIO On my 2-way vintage speakers, the Duelund CAST cap made a much bigger difference when used on the high-pass (tweeter) than on the low-pass (woofer). In each case, the Duelund was replacing a Mundorf Supreme (regular version) so this was a fair eva... | |
| Dueland CAST PIO What types of capacitors are in the speaker now? | |
| Dueland CAST PIO In my vintage speakers, the Duelund CAST was the best sounding of many, many caps I tried in the tweeter high-pass crossover. It had the best inner detail and overall coherency. As far as I am concerned, there were no negative qualities in its sou... | |
| emotive mono blocks and b&w matrix 801s a good mat Do you mean Emotive or Emotiva? Big difference. | |
| If you had a Benz cartridge would you let someone As I said earlier, my Benz received a "real" retipping from SS meaning they removed the original tip from the cantilever and attached a new one. This costs more than getting a replacement cantilever and tip since there is more work required. As to... | |
| If you had a Benz cartridge would you let someone Tony, I am not sure I understand your question. My Benz received a new tip at Soundsmith. The tip was supposed to be as close as possible to the one it came with. Since I had used the cartridge for 3 years prior to the retipping, I can't be totall... | |
| If you had a Benz cartridge would you let someone I sent my Benz LP to Soundsmith for a retip only, i.e. on the existing cantilever. SS did N excellent job and the Benz sounds like new again. I plan on sending back for another retip when the time comes.It really is unfortunate that Benz has just ... | |
| Do we still need 6550 or KT88 tubes? The KT-120 is my second favorite tube in my Emotive Vita amps. My very favorite is the Genalex KT-77. No reliability problems with either type. I think Atmasphere was more than a little unfair in repeating gossip about the KT-120 having reliabilit... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil That's great news Ricevs! I will keep an eye out for the new Jupiters. In the meantime, I am trying some JB JFX Premiums that were recommended earlier in this thread. They are quite good sounding by any standard, and when you factor in the price (... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Micheal, can you give us any more details on the direct coupled 2A3 amp? |