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| Tubes Recommendation for McIntosh Preamp cool! Thanks @stanleylocke | |
| Tubes Recommendation for McIntosh Preamp Yeah. I did see your message, but when I went to click on it. It removed all the emails information. I don’t think they allow exchanging emails because they don’t want people doing business behind their back, Actually I just clicked on your syste... | |
| Tubes Recommendation for McIntosh Preamp Great. Thanks @glennewdick. | |
| Tubes Recommendation for McIntosh Preamp Yes, most comments I read here in this forum mentioned that McIntosh uses JJ tubes in their tube components. I actually have never heard of New Sensor mentioned by @wescoman. Nevertheless, I guess McIntosh does a good job picking the right tu... | |
| Tubes Recommendation for McIntosh Preamp Thanks very much @wescoman for sharing your experience, Very helpful. I actually think the current sound is not bad with the stock tubes. I was told the unit was about 1 year old, but I don’t know how many hours did the previous owner put in on t... | |
| Tubes Recommendation for McIntosh Preamp Thanks @whitecap! | |
| Tubes Recommendation for McIntosh Preamp Great. Thanks @bondmanp! | |
| Tubes Recommendation for McIntosh Preamp Thanks @cfa88 for your suggestion. I'll look into that! | |
| Tubes Recommendation for McIntosh Preamp Good suggestion @immatthewj on contacting McIntosh. I thought about that too. In fact, the dealer that sold me the Mac told me that the previous owner had sent in his warranty registration card, so therefore, the warranty is transferrable. Aga... | |
| Tubes Recommendation for McIntosh Preamp Hey @immatthewj, I still have the Cary SLP-05. I guess I’m keeping it as a spare for now. The purchase of this McIntosh is kind of a coincidence. I ran into the C1100 for sale ad while I was browsing around in Audiogon one day. From the pictures,... | |
| Tubes Recommendation for McIntosh Preamp Hi @glennewdick, may I ask you which NOS brand did you get? Most comments I read from the internet is that NOS tubes are better than new production. I don’t mind buying NOS. In fact, I got some NOS for my other preamp (Cary SLP-05) and quite like... | |
| Cary Audio SLP-5 Preamp Tube Replacement. Hi @couger4u, the Lineal experiences that I posted as mentioned by @immatthewj are in this long thread started by another member. A big part of the discussion was about where to purchase them, and whether the ones sold by non authorized dealers ... | |
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| What do/did you do for a living? Software Engineer. My first stereo system I owned was after the summer of my junior year in high school. Used my hard earned summer job money to buy a 3 pieces stereo system consisting of a receiver, turntable, and a pair of speakers for around $... | |
| Adding a power trigger to an amp that doesn't have one Hey @ajones82, sounds like you have the same problem that I had in this thread: https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/question-about-cary-audio-slp-05-preamp Check out my solution. I use a combination of this emotive module with a IR controll... |