I've been smitten with CJ ever since hearing a buddy's PV5 preamp. Was it "colored"? Did it have a touch of honey about it? Yep. But every time we listened to music through it I found myself relaxed and smiling. Not bad!
I've been using a Bob Backert heavily modified PV12L for years now and it is awesome. Even before the mods. that CJ smooooooothness was there. I always attribute much of their gears' sonic success at the attention to the power supplies in their designs.
Almost bought a CJ SS amp years ago, but ironically enough went the McCormack route. As fate would have it, McCormack is now a CJ line!
Speakers are Wilson Yvette (a nice upgrade from Sasha 1), most cables are Wireworld silver over copper, a JA Audio f113 sub, Marantz SA7 S1 CD/SACD, Ayre QB9 DAC, Shunyata power conditioning, Magnum Dynalab Tuner, MacBook Pro running Tidal, Qobuz, Audrivana and Roon. Happy Camper here.
jafant... yes, everything was purchased new. That was a while ago however and I still use it regularly. It's very powerful. BTW, for anybody who'd interested, the c-j LP140 monos came with 6550 power tubes. After a few years and at the suggestion of Lew Johnson, I replaced them with KT120s. Nice sounding and lots of headroom. Those tubes are now about five years old. I was talking with Jeff Fischel at c-j a few weeks ago and he recommended Gold Lion KT88s. Just put a set of them in this week... a nice improvement, better mids and way more dynamic. Very pleased.
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