kevinzoe
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| Calling all First Sound Preamp Owners THANKS all for your insight thus far. Despite a secondary thread begining to develop here about tube replacements, I think the concensus to my posted question is to forget using a line conditioner with the FS preamp. On a related note, I was speak... | |
| Calling all First Sound Preamp Owners Audiofankj -- You mention that the biggest improvement was with the tube rolling to NOS Siemens 7308 gold pin tubes. Where did you purchase them as I hear they're scarce?Thanks,Kevin | |
| Calling all First Sound Preamp Owners Thank you all for your responses. I like the idea of starting with the stock cord and tubes so as to establish a "baseline" of sound for the unit before monkeying around with power cords / line conditioners. So the concensus is don't use a line co... | |
| Elite Preamps--Electon Images, Messenger, Tube Res Mes -- thanks for the update on the Messenger preamp. Thanks too for the EMM Labs heads-up but as it's for 6-channel and that isn't my need at the moment I'll forgoe this and look instead at preamps from Aesthetix Calypso, First Sound Presence Del... | |
| Elite Preamps--Electon Images, Messenger, Tube Res Nicky -- thanks for your thoughts. Do you know where I can find info on the Messenger (e.g. website, reviews etc.)?canook@aol.com -- nice sense of humour.Kevin | |
| Elite Preamps--Electon Images, Messenger, Tube Res Thanks Albert & Brian for your responses.Albert - "stunning offerings from well known companies with excellent customer service" are all buying criteria for me so that buyer risk is reduced and when it comes time to sell the piece it can be do... | |
| Tube preamp for phono and headphone use. The Sonic Frontier Line stages, while no longer in production, have a headphone jack - not sure about phonestage though . . .The McIntosh tube preamp (forgot the model #) also has a headphone jack but not the std. 1/4" jack . . .By the way, what h... | |
| Too many tubed components in the system? Ok, a part from some silly answers above (good to know there are some senses of humour out there), it would appear that the consensus is that there is no sonic degradation of sound quality with having tubes in each link of the audio chain. Good to... | |
| Tube Amps and young children - avoiding burns etc. Thank you all for your responses thus far.Snook2 - did you own the Wolcott monoblocks and if so did you think that the Manley was superior to them? I've heard such great things about the Wolcott's although a bit pricey.Jab & Jeffloistarca - I'... | |
| Best stand mounted monitors Dawgbyte,I couldn't find any speakers by Gryphon at the link you provided. I thought Gryphon only made electronics (i.e. preamps, amps, integrated, a CD player) and not speakers . . . Could you provide more info or a direct link to the speaker on ... | |
| Best stand mounted monitors Wow, lots of good feedback to my post - thanks all for your contributions! Some new names I'll check out including: Green Mountain Audio, JM Renaud, Usher, Shamrock, & Pen Audio.General question to you all is did you buy the speakers & amp... | |
| Balanced Tube Preamps I Should Try You might want to consider the new Aesthetix Calypso which has both balanced & unbalanced (RCA) inputs and outputs. It should be on the market very soon if not available now. It comes with a remote control and is CDN $6,500 which should equate... | |
| 'Last CD Player' search Chris - I too have the AA Prima but is the second generation, which doesn't have a digital volume control. As I had to wait months for the second generation model I got to use the first generation Prima for quite some time. I did hear a noticable ... | |
| boyfriend is getting on my way Whatever Roxbury's sexual orientation is (and it doesn't matter), you really need to do double blind A-B-A comparison testing. It obiously involves switching speaker wires from amp to amp several times and if your boyfriend is as interested in pro... | |
| Monoblocks vs Vertical bi-amping vs Horizontal bia ALL: Thanks for your input thus far. I've re-read Dennis Had's white paper on Vertical bi-amping (which he says has a stereo amp dedicated to one channel) and his argument is: (1) one stereo amp per channel equals 4 channels of amplification, and ... |