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| Preamp w/ a budget of $2000 I have the VTA SP14 preamp for sale on US Audio Mart. Don Sachs has greatly customized the basic SP14 and has one for sale at the moment for under $2K. I have that same amp in my main system and it is the finest preamp I have ever heard in my s... | |
| DIY Pass Labs First Watt F5 amp impressions Kenny,Did I miss your post regarding your impressions of the LTA amp you acquired? Kosst, I am using a Don Sach's 6SN7-based preamp with my F5 and can say that it is a match made in heaven. I have plenty of gain with my Spatial Audio OB speakers... | |
| DIY Pass Labs First Watt F5 amp impressions Kosst,Great information! You clearly know your way around electronics. I am going to attend Burning Amp this fall down the road in San Francisco to meet "Papa" again. It is funny that you mention the KEF LS50's. I bought them shortly after they... | |
| DIY Pass Labs First Watt F5 amp impressions Gents,I just returned from hearing a $6K Bryston 4B3 amp in a pal's system and got home to my system with the F5 warmed up and am hearing artifacts to the same music I was just listening to in my pal's system that were absent in his system. The B... | |
| DIY Pass Labs First Watt F5 amp impressions Let me be the first to say that I am very happy to hear you are enjoying the sound of your First Watt amp build! I have had a ton of amps in the past 45 or so years and the F5, with a pair of compatible speakers, is a sheer glimpse of audio nirv... | |
| DIY Pass Labs First Watt F5 amp impressions I'll bet you are getting very eager to complete the project and fire it up in your system. I wish I had auditioned a First Watt amp 5 or 6 amps earlier as I would have saved a lot of dough. Let us know how your masterpiece sounds when it is up a... | |
| DIY Pass Labs First Watt F5 amp impressions Update: I earlier stated that the F5 runs as hot as a tube amp with four KT88 tubes. That assertion is clearly wrong. While the F5 runs much warmer than class A/B amps I have had, it generates nowhere near the heat generated by a robust tube am... | |
| 2017 Honest Cabling that doesn’t promote bankruptcy I have upgraded to Cerious Technologies Graphene PC and IC's in my system and they are quite good. For my speakers, I found a significant improvement upgrading to the Supra Ply 3.4 tinned copper wire. For my bedroom system, vintage WE 16 ga. tin... | |
| What is your speaker ownership history since 1995? Very interesting thread started here I thought I had the jones bad for speaker upgrades, but am a plebe compared to some of your fellows. List of speakers from 1973 to 2017: Rectilinear III Highboys (outstanding speakers!) AR bookshelfs JBL L100... | |
| DIY Pass Labs First Watt F5 amp impressions Pass Labs sells factory-built First Watt amps, as well as panoply of Pass Labs amps. A great source is Mark at Reno Hifi. Mine was built by a guy who took the plans that Nelson Pass has generously made freely available for DIY folks. This fello... | |
| DIY Pass Labs First Watt F5 amp impressions I too await a report on the LTA amp from Kenny. I seem to recall Julius Futterman might have been a early designer and user of this circuitry. | |
| DIY Pass Labs First Watt F5 amp impressions Larryi, Thanks for you keen observations. I would agree that there is a slightly hard edge to the leading attack of notes with F5. | |
| DIY Pass Labs First Watt F5 amp impressions Kenny,We evidently traveled the same path with the Class D amps. I do think they have a lot to commend themselves, but after listening to them for a few weeks, something was missing. The lacuna of sound is only apparent by comparing it to other a... | |
| Best high-efficiency speaker under 10K You can have audio nirvana for around $3K with Spatial Audio Hologram M3 Turbo speakers. They are the best speakers I have ever heard under $10K. | |
| Has anyone considered rebuying a speaker you once owned?? Rectilear III's (not the low boys). I got them 40 years ago and sold them 30 years ago, but they were sublime. |