decooney
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| Tell us about your KT150 experience For what it’s worth...Comparing, re-tubing an older KT88 based amp that will "accept" KT150s vs. an amp which was designed day-1 (with larger transformers, and higher plate voltages) to natively run KT150s optimally, "can" "sometimes" yield a diff... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? @hilde45 Seems like a worthy step-up on efficiency from the 84db Wow1s to the 90db SS 6Ms, opens up a few more amplification options for sure. While we bounced all over the place on your post, you got a lot of feedback and options to try. One la... | |
| Best 6NS7 Preamp for a Pass Labs XA25 amp There are plenty of used low cost solid state preamps that offer “clarity”, if that’s what your looking for. The original post reads “Best 6SN7 Preamp...”Few or none of those SS kits will match the musicality of a really good 6SN7 tube based pream... | |
| Best 6NS7 Preamp for a Pass Labs XA25 amp >> Cary SLP-98 tube preamplifier with good 6SN7s << is also a "fairly popular" combination according to Nelson himself in an email I received from him last summer. He indicating having several customers with this combo, fwiw. A good ... | |
| Who Offers a Highly Musical Preamp using a 6SN7 tube and a remote? "Bad Boys" have been expensive for a long time, so I get that. NOS Chrome Domes and GEs aren’t so expensive at all (yet) and sound great."True. One can find lower cost tubes. As long as one buys from a reputable tube dealer with good test equipmen... | |
| My personal amp shootout on Vandersteen Quatros @bigboltz...staying up way too late playing record after record, followed by hours of Tidal. If I had to pick one, it would be two. Quicksilver Mono 120's. I look forward to trying different tubes in these,as well. Fortunately, the Quickies and t... | |
| Who Offers a Highly Musical Preamp using a 6SN7 tube and a remote? @wolf_garcia By the way, there are MANY sources for great 6SN7GTBs including Viva Tubes, and my preferred are GE NOS...plentiful and great sounding.Just two years ago I bought multiple matched quads of really good NOS Sylvania Black Long Plate pla... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? @markusthenaimnutSure would love to hear the setup if you are running the electrostatic speakers to go along with that truly unique ESL amp you have there. Very cool. Like some people are with tube amps, the same goes for me with hybrid electrosta... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? "I'm using an Innersound Electrostatic amp. It is a circa ~`1999 - 2001 or so amp that I have seen for $2000 and less."------------------------------------------------This one? :) If so, some serious grunt for electrostatic loudspeakers. Potent... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? @markusthenaimnutWhich Coda amp, most are big $$$?The trade-in Coda TS in Sac at the factory listed on fleabay has been stuck at $3,700 for a long time, past year. Another "under the radar" Co in the US, but known around the world. Do you know of ... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? @hilde45 Have you confirmed which of the Salks you are going with (84db or 90db, other)? | |
| Who Offers a Highly Musical Preamp using a 6SN7 tube and a remote? Keep in mind really-really good 6SN7 tubes are becoming harder to find, just went through this past few years trying several new, multiple NOS collections, adding a few more NOS. Then, bought some boutique 6SN7s no longer made. If you do go with a... | |
| Who Offers a Highly Musical Preamp using a 6SN7 tube and a remote? Cary Audio SLP-98* (remote)https://www.caryaudio.com/products/slp-98/Erhard-Audio Ella (n/a remote) - worth mentioning thoughhttp://www.erhard-audio.com/Ella.html | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? @tvad,...One of the benefits of tube amplification is the differences in sound possibilities. ..+1 Yes. Very true, tube amps offering switchable triode / ultralinear is fun. And, flavoring sound using different sounding input/driver tubes (various... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? Or, option-B, buy the EAR 834 integrated amplifier and be done, keeping budget in mind. Example: This 834 integrated sold right here on Agon for $1795https://www.audiogon.com/listings/tube-ear-834-integrated-amplifier-2017-03-11-integrateds-63112... |