viclondon
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| Replace the Supratek Chardonnay with Accuphase? Jay,I am probably a bit late, but have you tried tube rolling on your Chardonnay?If you are using stock or wrong tubes (I am not saying the stock one are bad, but there are much better ones) you haven't heard what the pre is capable of. You can al... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Thanks a lot guys for you input; I have got it all figured out now.All I have to do now is to place the order and wait patiently. I already have a good supply of NOS tubes from a headphone amp I had previously, including the Sylvania "bad boys" an... | |
| Power Conditioners/Voltage regularts for 230v Welcome to Europe! Everything related even remotely to hi-fi cost here at least double than in the US. This apply even for products manufactured here.From your post I was under the impression that you are looking also for a convertor 110v to 230 v... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Thanks a lot Maril, I think I have got it right this time.The only thing I still don't get is if the by-pass is allowed both when the Chardonnay is on and when it is off. Enjoy your Montecillo!Can anyone comment about the remote of the Chardonnay:... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century I have read part of this thread and am interested in the Chardonnay, but I am trying to understand how the HT bypass work and have a couple of other questions to see if it suits my needs:- I understand that the HT bypass involves a switch to be ma... | |
| Whose got best class D at this point? A couple of months ago I did a round of audition for amps to drive my Gallo Ref 3 II. I tried half a dozen of powerful amps in the $3,000-5,000 range, including the Bel Canto Ref 1000 (which I liked), but when I tried the NuForce SE9 v2 I immediat... | |
| Tired of Expensive Speaker Cable. Alternatives? Saxo, please note that Speltz and Anti Cable are the same thing.I agree with others: of the very cheap ones I have tried Speltz Anti Cables are by far the best. Also very suitable for biwire since they are so thin and can be twisted together | |
| Not Another NuForce thread...... Me too can't wait for version 10, 11 and 12 to come out. I will skip 13 though as it is an unnlucky number, but then will get 14 and 15 at the same time.Nuforce gives the chance to keep up whit a fast growing technology at almost no cost, which is... | |
| Not Another NuForce thread...... GCIL,I have a resolution Audio Opus 21 and I briefly tried to drive my NF ref9SE v2 into my Gallos ref 3 II directely through the output of the Opus 21: I only kept it for 15 minutes and then inserted a Minimax tube preamp. The difference was abso... | |
| Not Another NuForce thread...... 9rw,have you ever thought about getting a life? It could seriously improve your general mood.We are just talking bloody hi-fi, if you are not interested in Nuforce you could go elsewhere, take up golf, get a vacation, a better job, make a friend, ... | |
| Not Another NuForce thread...... jb8312,Nuforce is an extremely revealing amp; it cannot compensate for poor recordings. If there was an amp that could make "Californication" sound properly million of people would buy it...NF amps are also extremely fussy about all the ancillary ... | |
| Not Another NuForce thread...... I am probably the first person to have bought a Ref 9 SE v2 in Great Britain.Before upgrading from my humble Unison Unico (but I have owned a fair share of respectable stuff in the past) I auditioned a lot of the most hyped amps in this side of th... | |
| Gallo Reference 3.1; What integrated amp? Cytocycle,I perfectly agree with you. The problem is that over here a better 2ch amp will cost again double price compare to the US...BTW at the end I went for a pair of Nuforce Ref 9SE v2 whick I found fabulous at the audition; they should be at ... | |
| Nuforce v2: has anyone tried them Thanks for the replies,I went to audition the Ref9 SE v2 yesterday and I was extremely impressed: the best, tighest bass I have ever heard, great transparency and detail, really nice midrange and most of all extremely involving.I bought them them ... | |
| Belcanto Power Amplifiers Many thanks Dgaylin,I will be audioning the Ref 1000 and the S3000 tomorrow (5 hours of train round trip!), although unfortunately again with CDP and speakers I have never heard. Life for audiophiles is not so easy here in the UK.I will then try t... |