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| Review: Tube Research Labs Dude Tube preamp Strangely, I am okay with the 23 step attenuator. My BAT preamp has 99 steps as a comparison. I never thought 23 steps would be sufficient. But it works for me.... | |
| What Integrated Amps have the sonics of Separates? For the audio equipment, I think speakers are probably the most important one. You need to decide if your current speakers are good enough for you. Then you can decide the rest of electronics.I have rotated 5 sets of speakers for my main system in... | |
| $20 XLR cables that sound good If cables have high capacitance and cause the high freq. roll-off, I am not sure the balanced configuration can help at all. But I do agree that cables don't have to be expensive.I am moving away from a fully balanced system to a single ended one.... | |
| Power consumption questions I think your Rotel AVR consumes more than just a few watts for your intended application. Its user manual published the power consumptions for standby, idle, and max. However, from my experience, these published specs tend not to be accurate. For ... | |
| Speaker Placement, Listening Room Design I have had good experience with Ethan Winer. I took a picture from each corner of the room and mailed the four pictures to him. Ethan then made his recommendation.I ended up buying 5 panels from him and they work well. | |
| Interconnect Inductance vs. Capacitance The Cable company offers only standard length cables for loan. They also charge 10% of the list price of the cables as the fees. I do have various 1M ICs and I have tried them between the CDP and preamp. I do hear differences among them and I like... | |
| Who has dumped the power conditioner? Argyro, did you plug in your power amp to the Hydra? I have a Guardian 6, which is a lower line product from Shunyata. I plug my digital players and preamp to the Guardian but power amp directly to the wall. It seems to work fine.The Guardian also... | |
| Interconnect Inductance vs. Capacitance Interestingly, TRL told me that Blue Jeans Cables RCA interconnects are good enough. Paul may be right as these BJC ICs have the lowest capacitance that I can find anywhere! This man has integrity!!TRL's cables are not cheap though. So I am explor... | |
| Interconnect Inductance vs. Capacitance I recently changed the preamp, from BAT VK-3iX to the Dude from TRL. I also had to get a new pair of RCA ICs between preamp and amp, as the new preamp is single ended and the previous preamp used balanced connections. So I got a 10ft pair of Blue ... | |
| Shindo Auriges vs. Cary SLP98 Polk432, which one sounds better to you, the V12R or the 120S? Thanks for your comments. | |
| How to access power amp section of integrated amp I was assuming you have surround and center speakers. If you do, you need to adjust the L/R speakers to have the same sound level/sensitivity as the rest. If you don't, then you are set, no need to adjust the surround processor. | |
| How to access power amp section of integrated amp You really don't need to access the power amp section directly. Just set the volume control of the integrated amp somewhere and then adjust the surround processor to match the volume of all speakers.My other preamp, a BAT VK-3iX, has a HT mode. It... | |
| What do you see as the downside of tubes? I am not sure that Unsound is completely off. We all know that speaker/amp match is important. But can you find a set of speakers that meet the following:1. flat impedance curve2. larger woofers (> 11")3. no built-in amps4. plays down to 30Hz (... | |
| Who has dumped the power conditioner? Maybe one of you can write a comparative review on the PLCs that you have owned? Arthursmuck, is the SR PowerCell SE better than the Running Springs stuff you got? | |
| Review: Tube Research Labs Dude Tube preamp Hi Bill,You have tried quite a few preamps. I think you are right in picking the Dude as the best. Even though I have listened to many gears elsewhere, I only have owned 3 preamps so far; the Dude, BAT VK-3iX, and my DIY SST (simple single triode)... |