stevem1960
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| Preamp Deal of the Century Nice post Tubegroover, and good to see that Supratek is still making preamplifiers Sorlowski - they are very special.Still using my Supratek Grange preamp after many years of faithful service and have no inclination to look elsewhere.Regards,Steve... | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? I've been through quite a few power amps in my lifetime up to about $12K, but it looks like the Mingda MC300845AB monoblocs (about $5K) are keepers. These are 76kg push-pull Class A tube amps producing about 90w/ch, a pair of 845B output tubes dri... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Anyone noticed the NEW Supratek website?? ...a good read and nicely presented. Good news is I hear some products are available again by special(patient) order ;-))Regards, | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Mick uses an expensive variety of Sika-Flex, a long lasting temperature resistant polyurethane cement/sealant. Like the Selleys gutter sealants its designed to last 25yrs+. He once told me besides the convenience of it, it also has good damping pr... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century That last post sounds like a Troll, please ignore it!! I have owned four Supratek preamps Syrah-Cortese-Cabernet-and-Grange over a period of ten years and NONE have failed. In fact the Cortese that I sold some 8 years ago is still going strong, ow... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century To keep the dream alive, some further Supratek comments and pics posted here ... http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vevol&1146370182&viewCheers,Steve M. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century All the Best in your future ventures Mick ...Its a wonderful thing you have done to create Supratek, all those shining pre-amplifiers glowing in the dark, continuing to give listening pleasure to hundreds of music lovers Worldwide ...your legacy l... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Fiddler, I thought it was that ;-) had to ask anyway.Thanks DWR, I will have to follow up on the Orions one day.Steve. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Oops! sorry Fiddler not loss of memory, just didn't see Clipsal's reference to Srajan's article the first time (you'll notice that my first post on the matter is 13 posts down from Clipsal's so I musn't have read them all).BTW Fiddler, what's the ... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Hi Fiddler, yes caps were discussed earlier but now expanded upon by Srajan as a fullblown 6moons article which I haven't seen before.Abe: thanks for the comments on the Orion, sounds like worth following up on. I too am into SETs and point source... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century This is interesting ...about capacitor rolling.http://6moons.com/audioreviews/caprolling/caps.htmlRegards,Steve. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Hello Abe, just checked out your system ...nice collection especially that Teres turntable.I noticed you have the Linkwitz Orion open baffle loudspeaker, what's your honest opinion of it? I've been interested to try it out, is it as transparent as... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century If battery power was the be-all and end-all solution for audio, then all your portable CD players, ghetto blasters and car CD decks running on 12v batteries etc would be reference sources?? Which they are definately NOT ...I've owned a tricked up ... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Agreed Fiddler, and a lot what you say makes sense and different tubes *do* sound different. However, you'll notice that what Mick proposes with tube swapping is changing the type of tube to alter the sound, say from a 45 to 300B rather tube rolli... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century I'd just like to say welcome to Srajan, your input to this forum is greatly appreciated. As to tube rolling and cap swaps, I'm one of the Supratekies who doesn't believe in upsetting the apple cart and listen to my Grange preamp as the maker inten... |