johnss
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| VTL Pre tube roll…or suggestions on 12AU7s The sound of the 6.5 and 7.5 can vary slightly with change in tubes. I like the RCA black plate 5814As in mine. Have tried GE, PSVANE, Shuguang, Mullard UK, and Sylvania. If you are a daily or 4x per week user you'll likely get about a year out of... | |
| Primaluna tube rolling 12AU7 Notes would agree. Nice summary on the input tubes. Almost any tube NOS UOS US or Euro tube is going to be better than the stock 12AU7s that come with the amp. The stock tubes are PSVANE entry level tubes private labeled. If a person is bit more adventu... | |
| PrimaLuna dialogue hp the HP amp should be fine. Before you buy would suggest having a look inside (or have seller snap a few photos and send to you) and make sure the amp has the green fuse holders mounted on the chassis inside. The earliest versions did not have thes... | |
| Is It Worh Modding An Amp The Dialogue 1 uses pretty inexpensive coupling caps and shunt filtering caps on the input tubes. There are much better caps out there but they are not cheap. The problem is most of these caps are considerably large in size than the stock caps so ... | |
| V-Cap ODAM Capacitor Upgrade in VTL 2.5i Pre? not warmer; more organic sounding. Once you hear copper tough to return to a plastic cap. | |
| Non-fatiguing speakers in $10K range? what you are describing is the Franko Serblin sound from the earlier Sonus Fabers. Look for a pair either in a floor model or bookshelf model. Most of these are unfatiguing and can be listened to for hours. | |
| V-Cap ODAM Capacitor Upgrade in VTL 2.5i Pre? I used to have that same preamp. Better caps will help the sonics but doubt you'll get your money back. May want to consider sticking with copper foil caps though. Believe the ODAMS are metalized film. At some point though you may want to consider... | |
| AT-OC9XMLvs AT-OC9XSH @bpoletti - I have most of the AT carts plus quite a few others. The ART 9 is a nice pathway into the ART series. Pretty musical cart, nice soundstage. The ART 1000 is in another league. the dynamics, soundstage depth, instrument placement in... | |
| Shopping for a DAC at AXPONA If you find a DAC you like you may want to swing by Quintessence Audio in Morton Grove, iL. They should be at AXPONA. See what they have. Will also allow you to get away from all the noise at the show which makes it easier to hear the qualities of... | |
| Speakers replace or improve? That open area is going to cause loading problems. You really need to buy a couple of good subs that will proplerly load that whole area. Which means to get good bass you need something that will really move a lot of air. Forget the cheaper subs, ... | |
| AT-OC9XMLvs AT-OC9XSH Would really suggest you consider the ART-9. Quite the nice cart. The only cart I like better is the ART-1000. | |
| Primaluna signal tube replacement I would replace all the stock 12AU7s with NOS or UOS RCA or GE tubes. and you can sub in the 5814As which are electrically the same but are lower noise tubes. Have owned 7 of the PL amps. One of the biggest improvements I got was pulling all 6 o... | |
| What's A Good Upgrade From A Manley Steelhead? I used to have same phono stage with similar vinyl set up. I replaced it with the VTL TP 6.5. Have not heard all, but only thing I have heard better than the VtL is the Boulder 2018. | |
| Speaker upgrade @helomech, yep completely understand. Was the exact same response I had when another person mentioned it to me. Very few of the top speaker manufacturers use the best parts. Sonus Faber on some of their top models has just started. If you look i... | |
| VPI HW-19 with Graham 1.5 arm Question/Suggestions @hoodjem, you have a pretty decent setup. Before you buy anything, you may want to pick up a NAB broadcast test disc and measure the voltage output from your preamp. In doing so you'll get a pretty good idea what the response is of your whole play... |