Tekton Double Impacts

Keep an eye peeled out for a set of George Wright  2a3 monoblock Amps. Point to point wired with high quality trannys and great sound. Around $1000 used. I like point to point vs circuit boards and having owned these amps I can tell you they are great. Easy to upgrade coupling caps etc...if one wants to.  These amps can also run 300b tubes if you like. I liked the 2a3 tube better in these amps when I compared on my Cain & Cain IM Ben's.  

Hi mac48025,

A good guess would be around 60% to 70% of the Triode Labs amplifier.  The Triode Labs takes the music to a higher level of finesse and does everything better across the board.  However, the Cyber-30 ain't bad at all, actually it's quite good for the money. 

If you would want to borrow mind, you are more then welcome.  Just Email at terryjaylondon@gmail.com

@milpai

Sources: Theta Data III, Yggdrasil, Modwright Sony CD player. Actually iPad streaming through an AirPort via Yggy is better than I would have thought. Convenience has its merits. I’ve also heard modifying a MHDT Pagoda yields great results.

Everything else is up for grabs. I’m getting very good sound (easily exceeding my expectations) temporarily using an Audio-GD Master 6 SS preamp and a simple pro audio 2 Ch Roland 150 watt power amp (which is only turned up to 9:00). Ultimately, I’ll be exploring tube based amplification options. The DI’s seem like a perfect option to build a system around. The DI SE and Ulfberht II’s have my attention as well.

Someone asked about the stands in the picture. They are the IsoAcoustics ISO-L8R430.

Bill

Bill,

Great to hear that you are having good results with your setup!

I have a Schiit Yggdrasil in my chain also. I'm using a Small Green Computer - Sonore microRendu combination off of an Ethernet switch. Roon / Tidal as the software with multiple devices serving as remote and the SGC as Core. With excellent results, also.

I'm working on getting a bit more out of the Yggy via footers/platforms/weights for isolation, damping, etc. 

I have had the pleasure of listening to some fine SET amps, Jcarcop's included. And have enjoyed them very much.  And when talking tubes, I am ONLY ever interested in SET designs; push pull tube amps do nothing at all for me.

But, I favor good SS designs these days. My comments, while phrased to be annoying, were true. The good things our ear likes on tube/transformer amplifers are a function of tiny eq (sub half db), some resonant behavior, and the spectra of the distortion which all add flavoring to what might be sterile sounding digital music.  I just prefer to do that in software, where I can turn if off if it's not in the service of the music (For instance, if the album was mastered with all sorts of tube gear and or digital plugins. In that case, too much of a good thing.) And, of course, because I love the challenge of finding just WHAT it is we are hearing that we like! Turns out that the great mixing and mastering engineers have known for decades.