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| What can you tell me about First Sound pre-amps? MPHNKNS, there are approx 16 model variants available for First Sound preAmps. Only Presence variants use Holco resistors. On the other hand Paramount variants use Vishay S102K resistors for the volume attenuators. On which model/variant have you ... | |
| What can you tell me about First Sound pre-amps? Just heard from First Sound. Emmanuel will be on vacation until April 20th. He will call me back upon his return. | |
| What can you tell me about First Sound pre-amps? What they need is a brand new heart! What about a tri-chambered one? FS seems to have several examples of such a one. | |
| What can you tell me about First Sound pre-amps? I can tell the LS2B is choacking the system from the slight sickly bluish tinge that the golden faceplate of the amps assume when I crank the system up.I think the 7Ms are going anoxic on me. | |
| What can you tell me about First Sound pre-amps? ARTG, my admittedly aging system is as follows:EAD T1000 transport..EAD D7000 Mk.3 DSP.Audio Research LS2B linestage.Jeff Rowland 7M amps. MagnePan 3A speakers. C-Core AT&T glass wire between transport and DAC. Audioquest Quartz RCA interconne... | |
| What can you tell me about First Sound pre-amps? TVAD, RWWEAR and all. I now have a call into Emmanuel to get more info about his twin volume control design philosophy. I will report back as soon as I hear from him. | |
| What can you tell me about First Sound pre-amps? Excellent idea TVAD. Please let us know Emmanuel's response. Optionally I can call him up on Monday. Rackon, only the Presence Mk2 and Presence Deluxe Mk2 have an integrated/permanent ombelical for the power supply. Starting with the Presence Delu... | |
| What can you tell me about First Sound pre-amps? RWWEAR, unfortunately I do not own a First Sound. . . yet. To be honest with you, I have not decided yet if I will purchase a FS or a Supratek, or perhaps a Harrons. I am not sure why Emmanuel Go decided to forego a stacked attenuator design. I ca... | |
| What can you tell me about First Sound pre-amps? TWWEAR, I understand your preference. All My preference is different: my remote controls are at the bottom of a long forgotten drawer: I never use them. As for twin volume controls, a mitigating usability factor is that the attenuators click at di... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century I went to the Supratek site at:http.www.supratek.bizhoping to find information and pricing on options available for the Supratek preamps, namely internal electronics options, and external finishes.Unfortunately I found no such info. Does it exist ... | |
| Supratek Tubes and Tube Swappin' for Everybody Thanks for the excellent info Brian! | |
| What can you tell me about First Sound pre-amps? Good point RWWEAR. I suspect Emmanuel may feel that he is achieving greater channel isolation using two completely separate controls. One obvious convenience is his design achieves user-control channel balance without extra circuitry. But TVAD is ... | |
| What can you tell me about First Sound pre-amps? RWWEAR, yes. the First Sound devices have separate volume controls for the left/right channels. The preamps have completely separate mono circuits for each channel. This design extends to separate volume controls. The idea is that complete separat... | |
| What can you tell me about First Sound pre-amps? Calloway, what preamp is your upcoming FS replacing? | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Thank you Walter and larry.Walter, did you employ stock tubes on the First Sound and Supratek, or did you apply NOS to them? Larry, you justly point out that sound quality rises along the Supratek lineup. According to Emmanuel Go this may also be ... |