Ok so i do owe a apology to the chinese maker of the LITE LS9 jadis clone, now that i have my speaker wires
NOT CRISS CROSSED. Yep, had one black on the tweet going to top bipost, red going to lower bipost,,,made this discovery as i was employing the
~~Sterling Silver 14 gague speaker wire , along with the copper strand (both are separated by insulation),,and so correct this HORRIFIC error,,now the pre amp can do its job,,as the screwed up wiring caused horrendous distortion. The Lite is working fine with stock EH AT7's.
( i took out the 182 NOS tubes, the EH are more beefy and solid).
So the amp has,,count them
~~16 speaker wires~~~= biwired X2 = 16, 8 copper strand + 6 sterling silver...
Now you ask, was this mod of any value??
Not sure, as the correction of the speaker wires was made at the same time as the added sterling silver mod.
No I have no time going all copper to copper + silver.
On that mod we will never know the results.
But i can say, i LOVE this NON FATIGUING sound.
Now i am tube rolling and that discussion can be seen over at my topic, New Kids vs Old school tubes.
i can tell you, Old school's are superior.\
Now its a battle twix RCA long black plates vs Siemens, those test results will be complete next week, , just waiting for the shipments.
Both are legenady and who knows how thsi shootout will end.
But this ican, the jadis is singing now.
fatigue level , zero. ziltch. Nada.
No hype, no bias, and no ~~Snakeoil~~~
I always knew jadis had this ~~esoteric design~~~,
Took quite a bit of genius to figure out all the engineering of the Defy 7.
IOW the Defy's potential is only ~~limited~~~ by the quality /lack of from the other units involved.
IOW if you employ speakers valued at $100K, yet the voicing is really ona level of a $1 sound imaging/fq resolution, the Jadis will sound likea $1 amplifier, Likewise, give the Defy a true (not fake) high fidelity speaker, the Defy will sing like a true high fidelity amplifier.
This quality inherent in the Defy can not be ascribed to quitea few other tube amplifiers, which are *colored* by the design flaws.
= There is zero design flaws in the Defy.
Its all there, just waiting for units that can at least come near its perfection.
The Lite LS9 is not all that bad really, sure the trans is a bit weak, but sure boasts alot of line stage tubes.
The cayin CD17 Mark1 has new Sparkoslab opamps, 6 singles and have some Siemens Pcc88's and Siemens E88cc's arriving next week. See if that pops the fq resolution as well.
The Cayin 17 goes up to baton Rouge next week for a mod of ~~20~~ M SGO caps.
Hopefully he will accept the job, as the board is machine soldered,,very tight squueze.
Lots of things happening down here in New Orleans,,,hopefully i can dump some tubes on my ebay listings, and get some cash to complete all these mods.
Also , why has the audiophile community failed to note the E80CC blows away any 12AU7?
You guys need to go to ebay pick up a pair and test them out.
I'd say even a Tungstrum E80CC would blow away the ~~Holy Grail ~~Tele AU's.
http://www.r-type.org/exhib/aaa0426.htm
oh look, china hifi has the Lite back in stock, less than i paid 5 years ago.
exact same design. ,,no wait,,, they swaped the AT's and now employ AX's...wow, no doubt best tube pre under $1K.
almost tempted to pass up the cayin SC6 for this AX,,,but alas i am a cayin guy and i want the 4 AU's in the SC6 so i can employ~~yep you know~~4 E80CC's.
I, already have 4 ax's in the Defy, why would i want 6 more????
But she's a sweet lil pre, i can tell you.
the AX is no doubt superior to the AT design.
.
https://www.hifi-amplifiers.com/en/lite-audio-ls9-jadis-circuit-preamp-hifi-12ax7-tube-preamplifier-p-768.html
NOT CRISS CROSSED. Yep, had one black on the tweet going to top bipost, red going to lower bipost,,,made this discovery as i was employing the
~~Sterling Silver 14 gague speaker wire , along with the copper strand (both are separated by insulation),,and so correct this HORRIFIC error,,now the pre amp can do its job,,as the screwed up wiring caused horrendous distortion. The Lite is working fine with stock EH AT7's.
( i took out the 182 NOS tubes, the EH are more beefy and solid).
So the amp has,,count them
~~16 speaker wires~~~= biwired X2 = 16, 8 copper strand + 6 sterling silver...
Now you ask, was this mod of any value??
Not sure, as the correction of the speaker wires was made at the same time as the added sterling silver mod.
No I have no time going all copper to copper + silver.
On that mod we will never know the results.
But i can say, i LOVE this NON FATIGUING sound.
Now i am tube rolling and that discussion can be seen over at my topic, New Kids vs Old school tubes.
i can tell you, Old school's are superior.\
Now its a battle twix RCA long black plates vs Siemens, those test results will be complete next week, , just waiting for the shipments.
Both are legenady and who knows how thsi shootout will end.
But this ican, the jadis is singing now.
fatigue level , zero. ziltch. Nada.
No hype, no bias, and no ~~Snakeoil~~~
I always knew jadis had this ~~esoteric design~~~,
Took quite a bit of genius to figure out all the engineering of the Defy 7.
IOW the Defy's potential is only ~~limited~~~ by the quality /lack of from the other units involved.
IOW if you employ speakers valued at $100K, yet the voicing is really ona level of a $1 sound imaging/fq resolution, the Jadis will sound likea $1 amplifier, Likewise, give the Defy a true (not fake) high fidelity speaker, the Defy will sing like a true high fidelity amplifier.
This quality inherent in the Defy can not be ascribed to quitea few other tube amplifiers, which are *colored* by the design flaws.
= There is zero design flaws in the Defy.
Its all there, just waiting for units that can at least come near its perfection.
The Lite LS9 is not all that bad really, sure the trans is a bit weak, but sure boasts alot of line stage tubes.
The cayin CD17 Mark1 has new Sparkoslab opamps, 6 singles and have some Siemens Pcc88's and Siemens E88cc's arriving next week. See if that pops the fq resolution as well.
The Cayin 17 goes up to baton Rouge next week for a mod of ~~20~~ M SGO caps.
Hopefully he will accept the job, as the board is machine soldered,,very tight squueze.
Lots of things happening down here in New Orleans,,,hopefully i can dump some tubes on my ebay listings, and get some cash to complete all these mods.
Also , why has the audiophile community failed to note the E80CC blows away any 12AU7?
You guys need to go to ebay pick up a pair and test them out.
I'd say even a Tungstrum E80CC would blow away the ~~Holy Grail ~~Tele AU's.
http://www.r-type.org/exhib/aaa0426.htm
oh look, china hifi has the Lite back in stock, less than i paid 5 years ago.
exact same design. ,,no wait,,, they swaped the AT's and now employ AX's...wow, no doubt best tube pre under $1K.
almost tempted to pass up the cayin SC6 for this AX,,,but alas i am a cayin guy and i want the 4 AU's in the SC6 so i can employ~~yep you know~~4 E80CC's.
I, already have 4 ax's in the Defy, why would i want 6 more????
But she's a sweet lil pre, i can tell you.
the AX is no doubt superior to the AT design.
.
https://www.hifi-amplifiers.com/en/lite-audio-ls9-jadis-circuit-preamp-hifi-12ax7-tube-preamplifier-p-768.html