@greh ,
I started out with Silver Stars with my Marantz and found the same thing as you: bright leading edge and a lack of body or weight in exchange.
If you're tinkering with an amp, may I suggest the PADIS fuse? After trying a AHP fuse in my Kinki integrated, it had the same, if not more pronounced, effect as the HiFi Tuning fuse. Incredible intelligibility and air at the expense of body, weight, low end, etc.
Discovering that the Kinki uses a 8A fuse, I looked at my old collection and put in a PADIS fuse (that I found a bit too dark in my Marantz) and lo and behold, it's a winning combination.
The Kinki still has all the extension, air, detail and attack but now has more weight, body or gravitas, if you will. It's a more muscular presentation but not at the expense of anything else. Anything instrumental sounds all the more realistic and vocals have a more corporal element to them.
Maybe I should have waited a little longer for it to break in or it could be it's more copasetic with the Kinki, but it's staying in for the foreseeable future. They're only $25 and it takes about 2 weeks to get them from Germany and they're fully compliant with any and all electrical ratings.
All the best,
Nonoise
I started out with Silver Stars with my Marantz and found the same thing as you: bright leading edge and a lack of body or weight in exchange.
If you're tinkering with an amp, may I suggest the PADIS fuse? After trying a AHP fuse in my Kinki integrated, it had the same, if not more pronounced, effect as the HiFi Tuning fuse. Incredible intelligibility and air at the expense of body, weight, low end, etc.
Discovering that the Kinki uses a 8A fuse, I looked at my old collection and put in a PADIS fuse (that I found a bit too dark in my Marantz) and lo and behold, it's a winning combination.
The Kinki still has all the extension, air, detail and attack but now has more weight, body or gravitas, if you will. It's a more muscular presentation but not at the expense of anything else. Anything instrumental sounds all the more realistic and vocals have a more corporal element to them.
Maybe I should have waited a little longer for it to break in or it could be it's more copasetic with the Kinki, but it's staying in for the foreseeable future. They're only $25 and it takes about 2 weeks to get them from Germany and they're fully compliant with any and all electrical ratings.
All the best,
Nonoise

