Actually my experience with heavy weight as an indicator of sound quality includes CD players, DACs, streamers speakers, as well as phono-stages. This is not a causal explanation, but a virtual 100% correlation observation. Some of comes from very heavy cases for vibration dampening and heavy reinforcement every thing plus heavy duty power management. I have not dissected equipment to figure it out… but it is an observation. I mentioned this to a friend that owns a high end audio store for twenty years. He could only come up with a single exception to the rule of thumb… a piece of equipment I had never heard of.
Primaluna?
I’m thinking about giving a full tube setup a go and Primaluna in particular. Looking to hear people’s experiences with Primaluna in general. My main draw to them outside of tubes is there auto bias and protective features. Wondering if people generally replace a single bad tube or if people are replacing all tubes of that type when there’s a failure. Also would be interested if there were any other companies with at least a similar protective feature. The auto bias sounds great but the protective features are a bigger deal to me.
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@philgo01 may is ask which Rogers amp you ended up buying? I recently heard a 65-v2 and it was amazing. I’m going to borrow it and listen to it in my system tomorrow. |
I ended up purchasing a Primaluna Dialogue Premium preamp and power amp. It’s been an interesting experience so far with my Harbeth C7es3 xd speakers. It’s been both very satisfying and also a bit frustrating. Really everything other than the bass I think is incredible. The bass is just to loose and undefined, although it is very powerful. I do think it’s making more bass than my McIntosh mc302 was at equal volumes, and this is part of the issue. I’m guessing this is equal parts the amp and the speakers at fault. I switched the output tubes to kt150s and that was a noticeable improvement throughout the frequency range. The bass is now closer to what I desire but not quite there. I’m debating what my best approach is at this point. I really like the sound I’m getting outside of the bass so I’m willing to throw some money at it if it will get me where I want to be. Part of me wonders if it will be a wasted effort and I should really just sell the power amp and go back to solid state. Other ideas I have would be trying some different signal tubes in the preamp and amp. Another idea is to buy a Schiit Lokius and just turn down the bass. I did have a c46 previously and I did use the tone controls to tame the bass. I could live without with the Mc gear but not sure I can with this tube amp. Any thoughts or ideas are appreciated. |
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