stevem1960
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| Preamp Deal of the Century With all due respect, herein lies the problem that I first hinted at. Speakers from Paradigm with polypropylene cones and even the Wilson Benesch with its (slightly fuzzy)Scanspeak carbon cones are not the last word in resolution. The inner beauty... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century BWhite, points taken...I'm just making a generalised statement that speakers have probably the greatest effect on the way sound is reproduced (way above any tube rolling in a preamp). Normal cones-n-domes just don't cut the mustard with the fine d... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Hi Guys,Just to change tack on the tube rolling subject which is discussed ad-infinitum on this forum, I'm curious to know what speakers you guys use with your Supratek preamps and amps??You may recall that I live in Western Australia and have kno... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Brasso is a bit strong and might smear the chrome finish with prolonged use??I use Goddards long term silver polishing cloth, gentle enough for expensive jewelery so it should be gentle enough for my black and chrome Cabernet preamp, which inciden... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Artar: The Cortese sounds 'beautiful' for want of a better word. It *will* sound romantic if the nature of the recording demands it, and ruthlessly revealing if there is lots of information on the disc.Midrange purity and correctness is a particul... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Tubegroover: The Supratek Merlot is no ordinary S.E.T amp. It has all the valve virtues of harmonic sweetness and musicality, but it is also super clean and detailed with the most solid bass I have heard, and for a given volume level, beats a Krel... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Tubegroover: The Supratek Merlot monoblocs come pretty close to the notion of 'perfection' in a power amp, from what I've heard. So long as you have loudspeakers that can do them justice, i.e, are happy to run on 18watts of Single Ended Triode pow... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Well said Grannyring & ASA! Suprateks are very reliable IMO, due to the lack of circuit boards and simple but high quality construction.I ran a Cortese Preamp for more than 2 years for 4-8 hours a day, seven days a week without a single hiccup... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Ecclectique: In reply to your post of 20.01.04, I apologise for not responding earlier but I have been laying wood floors in my home and have had to put the hi-fi thing to one side ...I can tell by your post that you are a fan of Proac and it's de... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Nice posts guys...you *are* a civilised lot on this thread!Having played devil's advocate and illicited some good responses, I would agree that some final tweaks to an already good system is icing on the cake and therefore can be beneficial.Cello:... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Hi all, I hate to de-bunk this tweak fest you are having, but it's my humble opinion that significant equipment changes or even just trying out alternative audio technology yields much greater improvements than poking around in the dark with tweak... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Cello...on the contrary I am a vinyl fan and use a Roksan Xerxes turntable with Koetsu Rosewood cartridge. If you have seen my initial post of 20/07/03 I live in Western Australia and I am a friend of Mick Maloney and have a lot of his wonderful c... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Jazzdude: I currently use the Cabernet - you will NOT be disappointed when you get yours! Note however, that all of Mick's preamps are very good and it is only a matter of degree as to improvements between the Syrah-Cortese-Cabernet.Having said th... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Hi Jazzdude,Having gone from a Cortese to a Cabernet myself, I have to say that you will not regret the decison to go up to a Cabernet!! Both are excellent, but the Cab just has a more hear-through character, it's a very detailed and addictive pre... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Hi Brian...no need to apologise, I didn't take any real offence to what you said ( "like water off a duck's back" as we Aussies like to say).I am not the PR arm of Supratek, but I do know Mick well and underneath it all he's always well meaning. I... |