drrsutliff
Responses from drrsutliff
| Desktop system for work. NAD D3020 | |
| Thiel Owners The past few weeks have been filled with moving into our new home including setting up my new dedicated system room. The two rooms, old and new, could not be more different. Old: cathedral ceilings, wood floor, area of an open floor plan main li... | |
| Audience Au24 SX Speaker Cable Impressions, VS? I have been adjusting my system into its new room in our new home and have not been very timely with any SX updates. My Audience AU24 SX XLR cables reside between my VAC Renaissance Mk3 and a new Ayre VX-5 Twenty. My local dealer for both the Ayr... | |
| Audience Au24 SX Speaker Cable Impressions, VS? I look forward to you impressions. The brand new cable that I received is still early in its breakin period. Unfortunately I also have a new amp undergoing the same process. Each day there is a large smile on my face. | |
| Audience Au24 SX Speaker Cable Impressions, VS? I have upgraded from Ayre AU24SE rca between my preamp and new Ayre 5 VX Twenty to the Ayre AU24 SX balanced cables. I have used Audience cables for all my interconnects and speaker cables for many years. My dealer loaned me a set of the SX for ... | |
| Thiel Owners The Ayre VX-5 now has about 50 hours. Initially the 2.4s revealed the "new amp" pre break-in roughness in its presentation especially in the upper frequencies. We are all aware our Thiels are extremely good at revealing upstream equipment's poss... | |
| Ayre owners and preamp options: seeking advice "drrsutliff: if you are using a mc cartridge with yours, what is its output? Can you hear tube rush at medium loud listening levels?"Cadenza Black - 0.3mv output with no tube rush issues. | |
| Thiel Owners The VAC is listed for sale, but have not received an acceptable offer yet. I may have the opportunity to retry it, but I like this new direction a lot. Tubes in the preamp and phono section remain. | |
| Thiel Owners Sitting here today beginning the break in period of my new Ayre VX-5 Twenty into my Thiel CS2.4 Delivered from factory to my dealer on Thursday and I picked it up that evening. Put a few hours on these past few nights just enjoying the process. ... | |
| Ayre owners and preamp options: seeking advice I am using a VAC Renaissance Mk3 pre with phono in front of my Ayre VX-5 Twenty with excellent results. | |
| General Initial Impressions--Genalex Gold Lion KT88 Reissue I agree the GL KT88s needed at least 100 to 150 hours to sound their best in my VAC amp. I actually removed them around 60 hours thinking they might have been a poor choice at the time. Listened to my KT88SC tubes for a while and then retried th... | |
| Power tubes for the VAC 300.1 Call VAC and talk to Brent or Kevin. They will give you honest insight into what is presently working well. Previously they stocked and recommended the Shugie KT88SC but production quality became an issue. | |
| Thiel Owners The amp currently employed for my Thiel 2.4s is a 100 watt per channel VAC PA100/100 that was upgraded a few years ago. With the choice of an 8, 4, or 2 ohm speaker tap off the transformers this amp performs amazingly well and with Audience 24AU S... | |
| Best cart. for a Origin Conqueror MK3C arm? I have an Origin Live Illustrious Mk3c tonearm. My last two cartridges have been Ortofon Cadenzas (Bronze and Black). Excellent matches IMO. I also have and older Benz Ebony which performs well also. I have received recommendations for the Kise... | |
| Origin Live Turntables? I am on my second OL table and third OL tonearm. The first was an Aurora Mk2 with a OL Silver mk2 tonearm. The Aurora was my first belt drive TT replacing an Optonica RP3636 DD that I had purchased new in 1978. Over time I upgraded the power sup... |