Another Ayre KX-R recommendation. They are more than your target price, but you can sometimes find them on audiogon for sale.
Preamps
I'm not unhappy with the Jeff Rowland Corus preamp, but I don't know what I don't know. I'm currently looking for a solid state preamp with HT bypass to compare to my Jeff Rowland Corus preamp. I would like suggestions below $15K new list price to listen to. I have a Jeff Rowland 625 S2 amplifier, Antipodes DS GT music server and Chord Dave DAC.
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Ricred1: I know something about the corus and 625 amp as I owned them and should have kept them. If I had just ponied up and bought the uber power supply I think I’d be miles ahead of trading and selling to TRY to find something better. I would beg borrow or steal to get to try that power supply in my home. I bet jeff would help if you call him directly. It’s absolutely worth the effort imho. you’d then have something very special. |
4425, I appreciate your concern. Unless I come into a lot of money I'm definitely not replacing my JR 625 S2. The verdict is still out on the Corus and it really depends on what I hear relative to the cost of changing preamps. I may hear some preamps that are different, but not worth changing from the Corus. |
ozzyricred1 OP I can understand "they" may have, as AR pre’s being tube are output capacitor coupled, are used to seeing tube poweramps of up to 100kohm input, and many subs have a very low input impedance 10kohm You need a big output coupling cap if you want to get down flat to 20hz with 10kohm input, and they may not be big enough. And I just looked your sub is 10kohm input!! Cheers George |
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