wrm57
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| Tube rolling 12AX7As I'll echo Wolf_garcia in recommending the Psvanes. When I owned the C2300 they were my favorite, and I rolled in plenty of NOS and new production 12AX7. RCA black long-plates from the '50s were also nice in that pre-amp, but they're a bit pricier ... | |
| Turntables and power conditioners? Hi Gilles130,I use a Monarchy AC-regenerator, which was very highly recommended by Jean Nantais, who rebuilt my Lenco to what he calls Reference Mk II status. At least with this turntable, the re-generator results in better focus of instruments, c... | |
| Turntables and power conditioners? Dougdeacon nailed it. I use an AC re-generator dedicated solely to my turntables, which do not have separate controllers, to isolate them from the mains and feed them a constant 115v. I found this approach to sound better than plugging them into a... | |
| Allnic KS Park visit to USA Looks to be a fun and edifying event, one that I'll be sorry to miss. Now, if you could postpone it for 12 days, I'd be in Austin anyway...:) | |
| Allnic M-3000 monoblocks Thanks, Lak. Surprisingly little first-hand experience of these amps. | |
| Tube Rolling in the Allnic LS-3000 I bought an H-3000 phono recently, which uses the same tubes as the L-3000, I believe. My understanding is that people don't really roll tubes in Allnic pre-amps, other than the rectifier in the H-3000. Is there something about the sound you don't... | |
| Why my SUT hums only with certain phonostages ? Have you tried swapping in different ICs from the SUT to the RCM? Probably not the solution but worth checking. I have several sets of perfectly nice, unshielded ICs that cause an awful hum when placed between SUT and phonostage, although they're ... | |
| Aesthetix Rhea or Manley Steelhead I compared a Steelhead RC and a Rhea Signature in my system and much preferred the Manley for its superior dynamics and drive. The Aesthetix is good but the Manley is the better performer, I found. | |
| SUT decision: Ortofon Verto vs Ortofon STA6600L Pani, I've come to that conclusion myself, namely, that SUTs into an MM phono stage is the way to go for me. The Allnic H3000 is by far the best phono stage I've had in my system, and it is essentially a tubed MM phono stage with built-in SUTs for... | |
| SUT decision: Ortofon Verto vs Ortofon STA6600L I have to revisit this thread, especially after suggesting Lundahls earlier. Since then I bought one of Bob's Devices SKY 30 SUTs for use with my Miyajima Kansui. I'm shocked at how good it is, even before full break in. Huge, deep soundstage; ric... | |
| SUT decision: Ortofon Verto vs Ortofon STA6600L Another option is the K&K step-up. It uses excellent Lundahl transformers and has adjustable gain. You can also ask Kevin to supply slide-in resistors to give you loading options. | |
| Magico S5 vs Tannoy Westminster Royal SE I find conversations about about the pointlessness of threads to be more pointless...I find posts about the pointlessness of meta-conversations about pointless threads to be more pointless still...Eek...would someone please pull me out of this poi... | |
| It was 20 years ago today. . What was your system? Perhaps nostalgia is the ultimate system upgrade. Unfortunately, it only upgrades the systems we no longer hear. | |
| It was 20 years ago today. . What was your system? I had an Acurus 250 amp, like Wolf-garcia, but with the Acurus linestage and P-10 phono stage. Turntable was a Yamaha PF-1000; CDP was a Luxman D-105u; tuner was a Luxman T-02 (which I still use); speakers were ADS L-880II; cabling was all Audioqu... | |
| How long does it take you to install a cartridge? No more than 60 minutes, start to finish, to get it 90% there using a Mint, Wally, or UNI-Pro, followed by a Foz. The UNI-Pro is faster than the arc protractors but I only like it with some arms. The next 7% or so is refined over a day or two by e... |