WEll true, cool looking Shu does not equate to superior sounding,
I now havea few mods completed,
My biwire Thor Speakers now employ
TWO separate wires to each speaker post,
One Sterling Silver/insu
PLUS
ONE copper strand/insul
= sixteen speaker wires total
Not sure how much equated in fq resolution gain, as when i was making this mod,
I sadly noted that
one the left channel, wires were ~~Crisscrossed~~ that is to say, on the tweet of the MTM Thors, the black went to bottom post of the bi and the red went to top post of bi = completely mixed up....so who can say the sound is superior due to correction of criss crossed wiring, or the added Sterling Silver line to each post???
as now the system is really hi fidelity.
There was high distortion going on, which i attributed to the poor build of the Lite LS9,,which was a grave error on my judgement.
The Lite LS9 although not a true Jadis 200 pre, does perform very well, almosta keeper, also I swaped out the NOS tall E191CC's/amperex/beckman/ for the stock 12AT7's EH which came with the pre.
Far superior the stock EH's to the 7062 NOS tubes
https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_7062.html
I should add, the EH AT's have more ~~body~~but lack the super quiet lower gain/forwardness of the E181's.
But after further consideration, the details of the muisc can be noted much more clearly in the stock EH AT's.
So although a replacement for AT's, the E181 lacks a finesse which the shorter but wider body 12AT7.
My shoot out with AX's vs 12BZ7's , went down like this
In one very quick shot, the AX's blew away the 12BZ7's as a sub for the AX in the Defy.
= Not a sub for the superior AX, lets put that notion to rest.
Now with wires crossed correctly and each wire biwired (+ 16 wires total silver/copper) and new Discrete Opamps employed in cayin + 12AT7's back in their saddles + the far superior E80CC vs the crappy AU's performance, in the front 2 slots on the Defy 7
WE are now ready fora shoot out twix the AX's.
China /Shugaung T series
vs
USA/RCA tall black plates
vs Holland/Philips miniwatt = amperex BB's (same tube)
vs Germany/ Siemens
(No UK/Mullards , as i hate british warm sounding engineering/amps/speakers and I assume their tubes are of this muddy sound as well).
IMHO all will shoot equally = miniscle dif = a NOS AX is a NOS AX.
But then I could be wrong.
btw, i want to also try the Baldwin/Wertlizer AX's, as these were specially chosen for high quality perforamnce for Organs. However the Baldwin/Wertlizer seems to be made by RCA.
I have a bunch of AX's arriving later this week to complete this testing.
