lous
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| Might try a tube preamp BTW, this is about MY Stasis amplifier, I sent it to Jon because he buys transistors by the hundreds and matches them, and he had identified caps that would fit, with increased capacitance. Furthermore, at that time I didn't work on amps, I didn't... | |
| Might try a tube preamp Arugmentum ad hominem, how intellectual and original. That the Freya beats a more expensive commercial product, considering its designer, should surprise no one. Commercial products made in large numbers, and sold through small audio boutiques nec... | |
| Might try a tube preamp Nothing against the Rogue, they certainly do make nice equipment, but the most neutral 6SN7s are the Shuguang Treasure 1's, aka CV181T. I am sure that New Sensor will come out with something in their Gold Lion or Mullard line soon that competes, b... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? Transistors don't transmit, they modulate. Therefore what follows is a representation of the original input signal, it's not the input signal itself amplified. Tubes amplify the signal itself. That's an important distinction. Furthermore, tube cir... | |
| Might try a tube preamp Want a Freya, I’ll gladly sell you mine with the best sounding set of NOS tubes for it. That said, for the money, I would go with the Don Sachs 2. He’s no longer doing crazy combinations of things to them though. He’ll find and match the preamp to... | |
| Thiel CS2.4 to what? I just replaced CS-7’s with Audio Nirvana Classic 15 ALNICOs ($1199/pr). These are full range drivers, you won’t believe how good music sounds without crossovers. You’ll have to find your own cabinet maker, but David will give you multiple cabinet... | |
| New speakers for my system "I haven’t heard Vandersteen speakers, so I couldn’t comment on their sound. Though the consensus is they are good value speakers at their price point."If you want Vandersteens just toss towels over decent speakers. Vandersteens are for folks who ... | |
| Best Speaker cable in the $400.00-$500.00 range for 2 meters 12 gauge Duelund Tinned - copper in cotton, or Goertz, both were designed for audio by real engineers. You can use Western Electric, the original, it's what I am listening to now, but I am told Duelund is better, all my ICs are Duelund. There are... | |
| Best vintage amps (late 70s / early 80s) under $3k? I can’t speak to everything, but. My Robertson 4010 has been upgraded, and it collects dust. I have a Stasis 2, I replaced EVERY resistor, every capacitor, the bridge rectifiers with hexfreds, and had Jon Soderberg install matched transistors in b... | |
| tubesforhifi VTA sp14 or shiit freya Easy, VTA SP14. Roy can help you improve it as well if you want it to truly sing. Either way as much as I like my Freya, the SP14 is in another class all together. I am not sure if Roy has finished his move or not. It's possible that he just hasn'... | |
| Should I recap my speakers? If so who can do it? Look, if doing a remote crossover rebuild is sketchy, changing out drivers is crazy unless you have years of experience in speaker design. There are driver resonant frequencies to deal with, crossover points, and trying to incorporate circuits to ... | |
| Should I recap my speakers? If so who can do it? I don’t quite understand why someone would use a speaker, or whatever, that is less than the best, sometimes it’s to meet a price point, other times I’m sure it is for other reasons.For me there are pretty much 2 paths. The Vandersteen path is an ... | |
| I need cables for my 2 channel system My 2 cents. I agree generally with those who say that the best cable for connecting device X to Z is brand S. IOW, one cable very well may not mate well with your gear. I recently went through cables some of which costing north of $600, and below ... | |
| Should I recap my speakers? If so who can do it? Here's your problem. I tried to upgrade some Vandersteen 2CE Signatures once. They actually have 3 capacitors in series, so I bypassed them with V-Caps. The treble sounded horrid, they used the 3 caps to tame the tweeters. So, if you send the cros... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? I was having an issue with brightness in my system, and was attempting to address it through interconnects. It turned out that an isolation transformer was needed, but it took a lot to convince me to try it. After all, with conventional power supp... |