johnss
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| Why aren't new vacuum tubes as good as old ones? "new vacuum tubes are not as good as old ones "That used to be my line of thinking. NOS tubes were made better, better choice of materials, more consistent, etc. After trying the latest PSVANE Treasure series, not sure I would agree with that or... | |
| Reasonably Priced 6CA7 NOS (or even good used old stock) Tubes Available Anywhere? you may want to try the PSVANE HIFI grade; excellent sounding tubes and reasonably priced, they have a 6CA7 tube available in matched quads Very musical sounding tube also. | |
| Upgrade from my internal Primaluna phono stage... Audio Alchemy PPA-1? What else? have the same preamp. if its within your budget, would suggest the EAR 834P, or for a little less, the Clone of the EAR which is a direct copy. | |
| Audio Research VT100 Mk1, Mk3; VS115 Richard, in your original post, you mentioned upgrade, am assuming you mean upgrade from Mk1 to Mk2 or Mk3?If that is the case, you would be better off selling your amp and buying a Mk2 or Mk3 on the used market. You would never get the return on ... | |
| Tung-Sol EL-34B vs Genalex Gold Lion KT77 for Cayin A100T Integrated Tube Amplifier If the stock tubes are bright and thin sounding, would suggest you try psvane gray glass EL34s. Very musical, with an open and airy top end. they have become my favorite EL34 tube. | |
| Prima Luna Integrated - EL34, KT88, KT150, Brimar AU - My experience try a set of the PSVANE gray glass KT88s. is now my fav tube; super musical. best | |
| advice for warming up phono sound the harshness is likely coming from your phono pre. if you are a DIYer you can replace those red wima caps with Nichicon XY series, much better sounding cap. If not a DIYer, then would suggest looking for a diff phono pre. | |
| DEDICATED CD PLAYER $1K AND UNDER, THOUGHTS? would agree with Kalali,,,,Have two of the denafrips DACs...have never had better digital sound in my system. will blow away the stock dac chip set in your CD player. don't waste your money on another CD player....for a similar sonic experience...... | |
| Looking for a better preamp match for AT OC-9/III think you may be missing a few db of gain without the active preamp...the phono stage likely wont put out enough current to drive the amp quietly...I have the OC-9III as well as the AT 1000, a benz LPS, and a few other LOMCs....I have tried severa... | |
| what is the best Kt88 to get PSVANE Gray Glass KT88s are the best I have tried. Even out do NOS RCA/Tungsol 6550s, GE 6550s and all of the Russian Re-issue tubes. | |
| audio technicca at15s both are still a nice cart. I have one of each, both of which I bought new back in the day....but I have gone to the dark side of LOMC carts, and think that is now the way to go if you have a step up device or a really quiet phono pre stage that ... | |
| Anyone try KT150 in Primaluna Dialogue Premium HP would partially agree with samzx12, the KT150s have a nice midrange, but that all changes if you replace the stock coupling caps. Put in some copper foil caps and the KT-120s lose any harshness they have. but with copper foil caps, my fav tube in ... | |
| Inexpensive Tube Amps Will62,followed this post from a week or so ago. I have bought quite a few of the chinese amps, more out of curiosity than anything else. Most are very musical and offer a lot of value for the money. So Last week, decided to order a Gentune verion... | |
| Question for tube aficionados I owned the PV5, PV8, PV11 and PV12 over the years. Going from memory, seems the later versions starved the tubes a bit. before you start serious tube rolling, may want to measure the plate and cathode voltages and see what there are, then calcula... | |
| Tube Preamps..... Pretty simple choice. 1. Primaluna Prologue prem tube pre amp. 2. Denafrips Ares DAC. The two items will come in just under your budget. The Ares is a giant killer of a DAC. |