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| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! WC,The changing of the audio tubes can be very costly especially if you want to compare a few to each other. The KR PX4's are pushing $800-1000 for a pair. Also, the new Western Electric 300B is now available and these are $1400 a pair. I was a... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Viber,Your musical expertise is unlikely to hold a candle to mine. This is the epitome of arrogance. You have no idea what my knowledge base is on the subject material here.This thread is not about "musical expertise" but about experience and les... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! WC, another thing to research is tube rolling in the DAC. Not only can this affect a multitude of audio parameters, it can also affect the resultant gain of the DAC. Many Lampizator products support several different kinds of tube types. Upon i... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Viber,You say a lot in this thread over and over and all to often you don't know what you're talking about. You have no direct experience with high performance DACs nor any of WC's equipment or anything remotely close to their performance. How c... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Oh my gosh Viber, you're still on the Ref6 vs. Ref10 discussion? Didn't WC put this to rest or at least attempt to do so at least a dozen times now? On some music he prefers the DAC to the amp and other music he likes the Ref10 in the loop. Can... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! WC, I am curious how you had all the amplifiers powered on for over a day after your past comments of limited circuits. Did you run extension cords to other rooms to run these on other circuits or have you recently added more 20A circuits to your... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! In your case, you have said that you like to crank your music loud, probably louder than I would listen to. This is because your electronics are rolled off in HF, compared to mine. I are saying that if your electronics had more HF balance with m... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! My experience is also that a preamp provides the attack, dynamics, pace and decay to the line level signal that is missing when a preamp is removed. +1 gtaphile My experience echoes this as well. I find the line stage to be the most important ... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! You can make a judgment about the sonic character of preamps by using any decent source, such as phono system, or even a plain CD player playing good recordings. Ummmmm, No! If the "decent" source is dimensionally flat, has poor frequency extrem... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Sure there are more detailed cables than the Dominus , but there comes a point where too much is TOO MUCH.If you can’t turn it up loud (Reference levels )and listen for extended periods before it becomes too fatiguing, then to me it ,is too much t... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Why do so many people here get bothered when WC does not follow with their suggestions? It's quite clear that he's doing mighty fine now. Now that he has discovered the magic of tubes in the line stage and DAC and the benefits of various cables,... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! I can sit here and retire with what I’m hearing right now and not miss any other amp I’ve owned.That's the greatest GREATEST feeling. I congratulate you for all your efforts and trials to finally find an amp that gets you to this satisfaction. I... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! And the Block Audio amps came tumbling down. Long live the king. | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! I must support WC's experience with preferring the DAC into the Line Stage vs. the DAC straight into the amp(s). Ten or so years ago I bought an APL Denon CD player with tube output. Contrary to what the designer told me more than once, I much p... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Cavernous soundstage can be achieved without tubes. Please list a few solid state DACs, phono stages, line stages and amplifiers that excel in this area.I have been using Winged C 6550s, 16 in each CAT JL-3 for many years, and they seem to last 15... |