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| Shootout of Nos 6sn7 tubes @shkong78 Which Melz did you obtain? Apparently two versions of the metal base, one with T plates a la “bad boy” style, and one with similar T plates but holes “drilled” up the front side of the plates. Based on asking prices, the “holed” metal ba... | |
| The New Western Electric 845 Replicas The first pair Shuguang WE 845 ordered never shipped, AliExpress issued an auto refund. The second pair ordered from different seller arrived, both broken and gettering white, meaning vacuum lost. AliExpress quickly processed a refund once returne... | |
| Seeking a Warm 12AX7 Tube for Preamp Oh it’s a rabbit hole for sure! I’ve ended up with four tube amps, one tube/SS hybrid and a collection of over 250 vacuum tubes. The tubes will outlive me AND my children! Unlike my wine cellar which always seems low, wonder why? BTW, rolled in o... | |
| McIntosh MC-2301 Tube Replacements I don’t have a Mac, but own several tube amps and gobs of NOS and some new production tubes. My Dennis Had Insipre will run KT-88, 6550, EL34 and 6L6. The amp came with Gold Lion KT-88s. They are excellent tube IMO. Clean, transparent, linear w... | |
| Seeking a Warm 12AX7 Tube for Preamp @spacecadet65 (love the name btw), if you picked up the triple mica black plate GE 5751, you've got a real winner, I have one of those as well. I also have a couple regular GE 5751 grey plate, they're pretty good too with a neutral, linear "softe... | |
| Warning: China-Hifi-Audio.com I purchased a Willsenton amp from china hifi audio two years ago and had a great experience, shipping, packing, and answering follow up emails about the amp and its tubes. However, recent attempts to access the website fail. Cannot establish a se... | |
| Seeking a Warm 12AX7 Tube for Preamp @spacecadet65 I bought a bunch of 12AX7, 7025, 5751 and 12AT7 NOS and a couple new production variants to replace a stock JJ 12AX7 that I also found “bright and strident” in a Willsenton R800i 845. The R800i uses one 12AX7 as the V1 signal tube in... | |
| What is your favorite budget streamer? +WiiM Pro, bit perfect digital output to your DAC, software easy to operate, Amazon HD, Qobuz, Tidal, Spotify, Pandora, and more all native in the app. App has both Parametric and graphic EQ if you want to play around a little. Enjoy the music! | |
| In the sand box Sand in the bottom of my Vienna Acoustics Bachs made a difference. Tighter more solid bass. There’s a plug in the bottom and a chamber built for sand. The owner’s manual describes what to, how to load em up. Also loaded up bookshelf speaker stands... | |
| The Great DAC Mystery Intense, but might explain why I like my R2R in NOS the best, and the DS in my second rig, that ASR measured @ -123 dB SINAD with filter #4, slow roll, linear phase. The least pre and post ringing mirrored impulse curve. | |
| Tube Amp or Tube Pre Amp Tube Pre, your Cornwalls will love it. You should be able to find something here https://www.stereophile.com/category/tube-preamp-reviews | |
| What is your top sexy song? Kiss of Life, Grace Mahya, LastLive at Dug | |
| The New Western Electric 845 Replicas Have a Willsenton R800i 845 and upgraded stock LinLai HiFi series 845 to Shuguang 845B, the Amperex 845 replica. HUGE improvement. Smooth, powerful, linear frequency range with great balance and force. Realize the Willsenton is not a Cary 805, but... | |
| Holographic DAC With Air And Decay Denafrips Pontus II fed by an IRIS in front + Klipschhorns powered by a good SET. | |
| Integrated Tube Amp approx. $2,500 Look into a Dennis Had Inspire. Dennis founded Cary Audio, retired and now hand builds small SET/SEP amps and pre-amps out of a small shop in Cary, NC. He sells them through ebay under radioman731. They pop up every now and then, currently he ha... |