jbhiller
Responses from jbhiller
| Help wanted spending money and improving my system. Your phono preamp is the weakest link. | |
| V-Cap CuTF .22 on Gain Tubes-- Primaluna Dialogue HP Integrated @abd1, I'm not sure. You'd have to open it up and put a picture of it up on your virtual system page--then we can look at it. | |
| Music Direct and my recent exoeriences I, too, love Music Direct. They will just make it right. They are not really negotiable on price. Or, are they and I don't know it?! | |
| If there’s an audiophile exit ramp, this ain’t it… @OP, I've been there! There are so many good suggestions above. One thing that works for me is actually hearing the gear I think about buying. That's harder to do with brick and mortar industry on life support and the pandemic. I made my fir... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above Personally, I’d play with different cartridges before moving on from your current table. I’d question that a table upgrade alone at $10k will make a bigger difference. I’d go cartridge, then preamp before a different table. But I love your table. ... | |
| Anyone have experience with the Tung Sol 7581a vs. EL34, KT66, KT88, 6L6 @frogman , How do you like the 7581as? I recently sold my Primaluna and now have a Bob Carver Crimson 275, which runs (stock) KT120s. I finally got around to trying the 7581as in it and they are really fun to listen to. Great clarity and sweetn... | |
| Opinions Please - New Production Telefunkene Black Diamond Tube I've been waiting over 5 years for a response! I'm also curious as to how these sound in the KT88 compliment. | |
| Doge 8 Clarity: 12AT7 replacement for phono stage @oyie2000 and gilles130, I have a Doge 8 Clarity the 2021 edition. I, too, have hiss in the otherwise magnificent sounding phono stage. I've swamped some tubes that aren't noisy in other preamp stages (but not phono). I really want to resolve t... | |
| Bob Caver 275 Power Amp OP, The Carver Crimson 275 is an amazing amp both for the price and for an amp priced double it’s asking—in my opinion. At double though, I’d expect heavier build quality, better caps, etc. What are you looking for sound wise? I just sold a pa... | |
| Capacitor Raul, I’m sorry. I’m having trouble tracking your points. Sounds like you tried other caps, liked them, and later found them to add too much color. So, you went to or back to a good quality Wima cap. I don’t hear material colorations with VCap or ... | |
| Capacitor Raul, I get your points. Well made. Do you work for Wima? Just kidding. I do believe I hear better signal through two of the Vcap lines and others. I agree to disagree. | |
| Capacitor Here’s a great calculator to use when matching output caps. http://www.v-cap.com/coupling-capacitor-calculator.php | |
| Capacitor You can change the value of an output coupling cap and do so safely and do so to better effect. But, as a general principal you want to stay near tolerances as designed. Sometimes people violate rule no 2 above because they want to better match im... | |
| Capacitor Ugh. I’ve seen this on several other threads —people attacking capacitor upgrades in a high handed manner. I purchased a certain budget preamp that allows capacitor rolling with built in binding posts for caps on both output coupling and gain stag... | |
| PrimaLuna Evo 200 underwhelming PL has a warm, pleasant sound. To my ears, it was not too detailed. It is a good amp in my opinion to mate with modern loudspeakers that are detailed, analytical and bright as it balanced those things out nicely. But I too found that over time PL ... |