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| Siemens EL 34 @pehare gotcha, and a forum member colleague here started that QS Facebook forum, I visit there sometimes. I noticed your comments earlier about mid monos too. With Will's amps, did you get the pentode push-pull or triode version? He tends to ... | |
| Siemens EL 34 @pehare Surprisingly to me, the difference appears in the upper mids and highs and not the bass for the KT170s. pehare, if I may ask, and since you have one of Will’s amps, and your comments about wanting to try a pair of QS Mid Monos - can you... | |
| Cary SLP-98L DC or Cap Upgrade details To @sqitis IIRC the direct coupling on the older version (not sure about new or if anything changed since) preamps potentially eliminates any capacitors coupling the gain stage tube to the driver tube, and the output capacitors would remain - bu... | |
| Cary SLP-98L DC or Cap Upgrade details @sqitis As I recall way back the F1 package upgrade well over a decade ago was originally inspired and offered by Upscale Audio. Unless you send in your unit and pay Cary for the upgrades, intel may not be shared. Different people there. I have th... | |
| KT120 replacement options in a Cronus Magnum II @mulveling "Unfortunately, I think Psvane DID try to make KT120 several years ago - and it was a complete bust due to failures and general poor reliability." They did, and yes, several years ago. Same was said about PSVANE 6SN7s, and KT88s t... | |
| Anyone else feel like they are “transported” INTO the music @ghdprentice Yep, that is the destination. Took me 45 years of research and investment… but I am there also. I get lost in the music. Well I guess I don’t feel as bad having read this, trying 45 years for me too - this year. Only in the past... | |
| KT120 replacement options in a Cronus Magnum II @decooney The CM II or CM III are not low current amps. They come with KT120s but can run KT88s per Rogue. @tubeguy76 Curious to know what the actual plate voltage is in the new CM III? Is it static, or does PV change when KT88s are installed?... | |
| KT120 replacement options in a Cronus Magnum II @tubeguy76 I swapped the KT120 tubes in my CMIII with Gold Lion KT88s and I really like the sound. Seems "fuller" to me. @goldprintaudio as much as I love KT120s in CMIIIs, I’ve really been enjoying the last few units that have come through wi... | |
| If Nordost and AQ Speaker cables had a baby? @audiojan "...with the "flesh and bones" of Cardas Clear Beyond. " Never heard that one before. Good description. I’ve tried to think of how to describe it beyond something like added "weight and vibrance" or "full bodied and textured", etc.... | |
| Cable differences -- power, interconnect, digital, and in what order? @audphile1 is the power cable on RG of equal or better quality than the power cables on your source and preamp? Interesting question. Similar quality, not one too much greater than the other. This is another reason I may step up and try a poten... | |
| Cable differences -- power, interconnect, digital, and in what order? @audphile1 ...And to add to the power cord conversation…not all power cords work equally well on all components. audiphile1, If you had to pick using a higher end 1.5M power cord (from a very established cable manufacturer), for use between ... | |
| Cable differences -- power, interconnect, digital, and in what order? For me it was not until the majority of my system was up to par THEN I started hearing real differences between different levels of quality interconnect and speaker cables. My ranking is closer to @audphile1, but swapping 3 & 4. | |
| Forté 1A power amplifier.... still good? @audiofilo123 The upgrade costs depends on who does the work and how far you have to ship depending on where you are sending from, est $1200-1500, but don’t hold me to that. I had a few other small tweaks on min to improve signal path. Since you h... | |
| Forté 1A power amplifier.... still good? Yes. Forte 3 / 1A. Recently upgraded mine. Jon at VAR is local, and we upgraded the main caps to larger ones, new bridge rectifiers, eliminated some spades with direct solder, and installed Cardas speaker binding posts, converted to full Class-A... | |
| Siemens EL 34 @jjss49 "but it is not as warm and rich sounding" Yup, exactly. That particular sound...I hear ya. Its something I’d like to rotate back in once in a while, maybe with some smaller monos that i dont turn up so much, just for low level listen... |