Wanted to report back on the new tubes.
To catch you up I bought a quad set of the Phillips SQ and I have now been listening to them for 5 days now and have prob put about 30 hours of actual listening time with at least 50 hours of the tubes running. They sounded great the first day but they are really starting to sing now. Extremely musical. They really made a huge difference on the top with with a very natural and pronounced midrange. Noting is over cooked across the entire frequency range. I have listened to everything from Miles to Zeppelin with zero fatigue. Each Day they seem to get better and better. Either that or I’m just getting used to them. Either way I’m extremely pleased with the SQ. The soundstage is wide and deep and I am hearing a bit more airiness on songs I’m most familiar with. I’m trying not to be very long winded here but I rally could go on and on. I have to say for sure these are an improvement over the Eleectro-Harmonix that came OEM with the phono pre. I’m anticipating that with another 50 hours of play they should be even better and I’m looking forward to that.
So thanks for all the recommendations guys. I may try a different set later. Maybe the Siemens A-Frames. I don’t see myself feeling groggy enough to spend the coin on the Telefinken CCa’s at $550/tube but you just never know lol. We will see. For now I’m planning on enjoying these for a while. Oh and by the way I still need to do the rectifier upgrade as soon as ARC calls me. I’m on the waiting list foe that which should also be a significant improvement.
Thanks again
Till next time
To catch you up I bought a quad set of the Phillips SQ and I have now been listening to them for 5 days now and have prob put about 30 hours of actual listening time with at least 50 hours of the tubes running. They sounded great the first day but they are really starting to sing now. Extremely musical. They really made a huge difference on the top with with a very natural and pronounced midrange. Noting is over cooked across the entire frequency range. I have listened to everything from Miles to Zeppelin with zero fatigue. Each Day they seem to get better and better. Either that or I’m just getting used to them. Either way I’m extremely pleased with the SQ. The soundstage is wide and deep and I am hearing a bit more airiness on songs I’m most familiar with. I’m trying not to be very long winded here but I rally could go on and on. I have to say for sure these are an improvement over the Eleectro-Harmonix that came OEM with the phono pre. I’m anticipating that with another 50 hours of play they should be even better and I’m looking forward to that.
So thanks for all the recommendations guys. I may try a different set later. Maybe the Siemens A-Frames. I don’t see myself feeling groggy enough to spend the coin on the Telefinken CCa’s at $550/tube but you just never know lol. We will see. For now I’m planning on enjoying these for a while. Oh and by the way I still need to do the rectifier upgrade as soon as ARC calls me. I’m on the waiting list foe that which should also be a significant improvement.
Thanks again
Till next time