Preamp Deal of the Century

Hi gang. Just checking in on the thread and have not had the time to post my thoughts here in regards to the glare issues Opus and Maril are experiencing. Hopefully,I will find some time over the weekend. Jtgofish....BTW, all of the supratek preamps are wired with pure silver wire. However, your wiews on the use of silver wire for both speaker cabling and interconnects do mirror mine. Later....

Maril and Opuss,strange problem your having. I do hope you get to the bottom of it..... I have owned a pair of Quad 63s for going on twenty five years.I have had various electronics ,solid state and tube driving them over the years.It took awhile for me to discover these speakers should be in a room where they can breath along with ridid stands to elevate them off the floor.They have a spooky midrange magic that compared to speakers today,many would fall flat on their face. They are ruthless in reveiling anomalies in the midrange.Be it up stream electronics or in a recording. All these years that I have enjoyed them, I have never heard them sing like they do now....never... Partly due to a new room but mostly to a change in wire.Nordost mono filiment silver coated copper in my tone arm and to the phono section of my Chenin...The transformation was significate....The wire Im slowing replacing is Cardas Golden Reference to the amps and speakers. Over the past three years I have tried several differant complete runs of brands of wire. None of them even came close to what this mono filiment wire does. Though it works extremely well in my system ,it may not in yours.However look into it. It could very well be a wire issue. Hopefully it will do the trick.......Ecclectique,Im always interested in what you have to say.

I get the feeling this is going to drive the posts to over the 4000 mark - a record. It is hard to know what to do at this point. As a neurotic audiphile, this "glare" is certainly driving a pause in the unqualified praise for these units. So I do hope those who hear glare when many others apparently do not, realize the monkey wrench they are throwing into the mix, especially with a small, cottage industry manufacturer. On the surface their comments seem to be honest, which of course is what makes it worrisome, on the other hand, there appears to be many, many satisfied customers. What is an outsider to do? It shows the power of doubt and hesitation we as hobbiest are prone to. It is almost enough to throw up your hands and just get a McIntosh, which may or may not be the very best, but at least you know it is more than decent and will last a long time.

Well,if between the talents of Ecclectique and Mick this problem can't be resolved,I don't know how it would be. It's a shame we can't get more ears physically to these two systems,very difficult to solve tough problems via the web. I hope eventually we can get this solved to everyones liking.

When you take into account the hundreds of positive comments from this thread and the many happy customers that Mick has had over the past few years, I don't think that Mick has to worry about his business going down the drain, or even being affected by a couple of people that hear a glare in their system and attribute it to Supratek preamps. I am sure that the satisfaction rate for Supratek is over 99%. I believe these are the best preamps in the world per dollar spent. I don't believe the 2 guys that hear a glare in their system are saying this to bad mouth Supratek or to sabotage Mick's business. Many people have offered ideas to try to get rid of this glare. That is what I love about this thread. People try to help each other out if a problem arises. Bottom line is if you cannot solve the problem (and I hope you can), sell your Supratek and buy another preamp. If I were considering buying a Supratek for the first time and I had read even a third of this thread, I certainly would not let a couple of non glowing comments keep me from purchasing. I would advise any potential buyers to not be turned off by a problem that 2 people are having when hundreds of people all over the world sing nothing but praise for the sound of the most musical preamps in the world, Supratek preamps.