agbrace
Responses from agbrace
| Manufacturers with great customer service Pass Labs, EMM Labs/Meitner, Audio Research, Bryston. All have provided me excellent customer service for both new and used components. | |
| Pass Labs Amps - Does the heat bother you? Running XA60.8 monos with KEF Reference 1 Meta. They get warm but not hot. I have them on Sound Anchors stands in the middle of the speakers completely out in the open so they get good ventilation. Love the sound quality and the company, the heat ... | |
| Vacuum Tube Audio / Tubes4HiFi OK, thank you. I missed that must’ve been recent. I will keep checking back and hopefully when they get caught up, I’ll be able to get one. Thanks. | |
| Suggestions for a tube pre and power amp @yyzsantabarbara thank you for the detail, I’m also considering an MA-3i, I have an older EMM DAC2X V2 and out of 15 DACs I’ve had probably the overall nicest sounding. Also always wanted to audition the Krell 175 and 300. A lot of fun components ... | |
| Suggestions for a tube pre and power amp @yyzsantabarbara how would you compare the Coda 16 to the Continuum No.8 V1? That is an upgrade I would seriously consider but a pretty big bump in price. Thanks. | |
| Suggestions for a tube pre and power amp +1 for Aric Audio, had a Super 6SN7 awhile back, very nice and beautiful build quality. | |
| Suggestions for a tube pre and power amp @kevemaher Agreed, A closer look at the measurements indicates the 328BE is actually a difficult load on the amplifier, dropping down to under 3 ohms in the bass region due to high phase angle and low impedance. | |
| Suggestions for a tube pre and power amp @lals Right now I just have the Coda, an Accuphase A–75, and a Luxman 595 integrated. Speakers are Magnepan 3.7i and KEF Reference 1 Meta. Very difficult to say which amp is best, I rotate things in and out, system synergy and amp to speaker match... | |
| Suggestions for a tube pre and power amp @lals I don’t feel that its single-ended only output is a limiting factor, it is a very nice component and reasonably priced given its performance. I have been through a ton of gear and currently have 3 other preamps at the moment, all solid state... | |
| Suggestions for a tube pre and power amp @lals Yes, it is a good balance of the traditional sonic characteristics of tube and solid state giving the best of both. It has good bass dynamics like solid state, an open three-dimensional soundstage, very good low-level detail resolution but y... | |
| Suggestions for a tube pre and power amp I can recommend LTA and Coda, I have a MicroZOTL Level 3 preamp with Ray Reserve 6SN7 and 12AT7 and a Coda No.8 V1 power amp. They are very nice together, as others have said, the LTA is not a classic tube sound but a nice balance in between, open... | |
| New Preamp or go Integrated The Music Room has an EMM Labs PRE2 for $3600, outstanding solid state preamp, circa 2015, $15K MSRP. https://tmraudio.com/fresh-arrivals/emm-labs-pre2-stereo-preamplifier-fyxp/ | |
| Im going to regret my cable question One note with Cardas, I have an 8 foot pair of Clear Cygnus and due to the high capacitance, they triggered the protection circuit on my Bricasti M25. I find Canare 4S11 to be a very decent cable and dirt cheap compared to the others. | |
| LAIV Harmony I’m running an Aurender N200 USB to a Denafrips Gaia 12th and then I2S to the Harmony. All formats work fine except DSD128. The left and right channels are swapped and this only happens on DSD. I’ve tried every possible pinout configuration betwe... | |
| Needing DAC Advice I have been through a dozen or so DACs spanning ESS, AKM, FPGA, R2R and am currently enjoying a Berkeley Alpha DAC Series 2, it is an older model but can be had used ~$2K and at that price it is an incredible value, detailed but no glare, non-fati... |