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| Mating Tube pre's with SS amps Tube microphonics are exactly as you described and will add kind of reverb sound. There's many people who like a bit of microphonics. Problem I have with it is that the louder you play the more effect the microphonics are having. The 3 pre's you l... | |
| Mating Tube pre's with SS amps Bass response shouldn't be a concern. Bass is very important to me and must be natural and dynamic without any sort of loss. I have VMPS Supertower/R SE speakers with four 15's and two 10's handling the bass. Bass is articulate and dynamic. This A... | |
| Mating Tube pre's with SS amps No need to worry about resolution with the right tube pre. Audio Research does a good job here. Some tubophiles though don't them their gear tubey enough but all the resolution, soundstaging and smoothness are there. This is my second tube preamp,... | |
| Audio research 16II or Pass X1 The ARC LS 16 is extremely accurate at both frequency extremes and is hardly tubey sounding at all. It's a very neutral and accurate piece with excellent detail retrieval. It's just plain hard to fault. I bought mine and then looked to see what ot... | |
| New preamp or other suggestions? Ditto on the Tube preamp. It's certainly worth a shot and will tame the SS sound. Various amounts of tubeyness are available and you'll have to make up your own mind on that. Audio Research isn't tubey much at all and is my choice with my Marsh am... | |
| Opinions on Carver TFM 55x-THX? The Carver TFM series are what Bob Carver designed to replicate the sound of a tube amp and intentionally rolled off the highs and lows. The power supply in the Carver is also not as beefy as what was in the Parasound. Both of these differences wo... | |
| Hum from DVD video cable Sounds like a ground problem. They are common and the more stuff you hook up the more likely it's going to happen. They can be no fun. Try lifting the ground to the dvd player by using a cheater plug on the dvd player and see if this works. Then d... | |
| Best 2K preamp, be it tube or SS The Audio Research LS 16 MKII sounds like what you may want. No harshness and not tubey, just smooth, accurate and dynamic. It really gets out of the way of the signal. | |
| Class A preamp or Class A amp NOt exactly sure what your question is but the preamp will have the most effect on the sound. | |
| Anyone heard the new ARC LS16MKII? I've got an ARC LS 16 and it's quiet as can be. Crank the volume and there's almost nothing coming from the speakers with your ear right upto them. The above poster definitely has one that is defective. Sound is clean and accurate, more so than th... | |
| Is pure class A ss the equal to tubes? I'm curious too which hybrids are recommended. Thanks | |
| Why my system has detail but no body & warm vocal? Your room is the most important component in your system next to your speakers and will have the most profound effect. Moving the speakers where you can at first. Even an inch or two or angling them in more or less. Like the person above said a ro... | |
| Tube Preamp with "pass through" for HT option? The Audio Research LS 16 has home theater pass through and the toggle is on the front. Works like a charm. You don't have to have a home theater pass through input. You can also just feed the pre outs of your home theater unit to a line in on any ... | |
| Which SS amps sound like a tube amp? Thanks everyone for their help. I tried a little Cary AE 3 preamp and knew I was on the right track. Bought an Audio Research LS 16 pre and that was a bullseye, not too tubey and no ss nastiness like the Krell preamp. The Krell may be more detaile... | |
| Where do tubes matter most??? Tubes probably matter most in the power amp but a tube preamp can add quite alot of tubeyness. Or, like the Audio Research LS 16 I use just add a little bit of that magic to make everything just right. I personally couldn't have a tube amp as too ... |