@audphile1 Just came across this thread. Thank you for starting it! Coincidentally I have a Melto 2 + VPI Prime with fatboy gimbal arm and Hana umami blue cartridge. Very similar to you. I haven’t tried tube rolling yet. So far what are your favorites? I listen to jazz also.
Lab12 Melto 2 - tube rolling
Just acquired a well cared for Melto 2. Wanted to give a tube phono stage a try in my system.
The unit comes with stock 2 Electro Harmonics 6922 and 2 OTK1 Russian military 6n23p EB tubes.
I’d like to hear from the Melto 2 owners, or owners of phono stages that utilize 6922 tubes, about your experience with replacing EH 6922 with better tubes.
Sound characteristics - what changed, what was the improvement?
Considering current production Gold Lions as I remember liking them in the Rogue line stage…but those were 12AU7 and not 6922.
Table/cart - VPI Prime X/Hana Umami Blue
Cables - kimber carbon phono from table to Melto2, kimber carbon XLR from phono stage to integrated
Any thoughts?
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The latest Tone Poet, Dexter Calling, showed up yesterday. Recorded in 1961, Dex was in good shape, Kenny Drew, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Philly Joe Jones, drums. Unusual for Tone Poet it is Stereo. In my youth, I wanted to be a jazz drummer. When this was made I was studying with George Stone in Boston, later attended Berkley and then went into the Navy Band. The best day I ever lived, I couldn't turn pages for guys like Philly Joe, and he just kills it on this record. It is good for me that I was smart enough to go to college and learn something I could do well. |
@pbecker128 nice! What gain and load settings are you using? |
@billstevenson how is the sound quality on that Dexter LP? I’m looking to pick up a few new blue note records, some from the recommendations earlier in this thread |
Speaking of "If you go away", I just read the piece in Wiki on the life of Jacques Brel. What a very impressive and interesting man who achieved a great deal in only 49 years of life, which he lived fully! I only remember him as the titular subject of the musical "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" which played for ages on Broadway. At the end of the Wiki bio, there is a list of singers who have covered his songs, including "if you go away". The list is quite lengthy (three long columns in Wiki) and includes Shirley Horn. But it does not include Charles Aznavour. So the recording of "if you go away" that lives in my mind must be of Jacques Brel himself singing the song. |
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