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| Galion monoblock discovery The Comet and the Discovery amps put out the same wattage. The voicing is different. If I'm in the mood for Stravinsky or Bartok or Mahler, I prefer the Discovery amps. Same if I want to hear Tom Waits or Elliot Smith and similar artists. For a Br... | |
| Galion monoblock discovery I have the Discovery amps, a P75 and the Comet amp. Thomas builds very musical sounding components that punch way above their weight. Right now I’m using a $17k preamp with the Comet amp and it’s crazy good. I’ve had other solid state amps in the ... | |
| No one talks about Purist Audio Design cables. I have the PAD Neptune Diamond cables for my tonearm, speakers, and interconnects and love them. I have not tried the power cables yet. | |
| Aero DAC by Linear Tube Audio - experience I have the Aero now for a few months and the tubes can make a difference. Mine came with GE 12SX7 tubes and I found those to be sterile sounding. I then tried the Ray Reserve 6SN7 and they sound better, but not quite as good to my ears as my NOS t... | |
| What Tube Preamplifier Under $1800 to Choose? The Galion Audio TS P75 is just a tiny bit more than what you’re looking to spend but you may want to check it out. My system for the past 20 years has been an Emotive Audio Epifania tube preamp and the Vita monoblocks. The preamp was $17k when it... | |
| My experience: new Galion TS A75 vs Schiit Vidar 1 I have the Discovery monoblocks in my system for a little over a week and I am very impressed with them. My system is fairly high end. I have Emotive Audio tube electronics, a Teac 701T transport feeding an LTA Aero DAC, and all cables are Purist ... | |
| LTA Aero vs Merason Reuss vs Mojo Audio Mystique Y? The LTA Aero has been in my system for 6 weeks now. I started with the GE 12SN7 and those were a bit sterile sounding. Moving to the Ray Reserve 6SN7 was much better. I have a collection of NOS 6 and 12SN7's and I will say that the Aero does resp... | |
| Boutique DACs Another vote for LTA Aero. | |
| Shangling Issues I was considering the SACD1.3 but now I won't bother. | |
| Shangling Issues Yes. Thank you for the correction. | |
| Do you have a speaker that’s not a big name maker but punches above its weight? Why? My Bache Audio Tribeca speakers replaced a pair of Audio Physic Tempo Plus speakers. The Tempo's have pinpoint imaging, but the sense of scale was a bit smaller. I found placement of these speakers to be critical to get the sound dialed in. The Tr... | |
| SME 309 Tonearms: Production Years and Variations I have my 309 arm since 1999 and it came in the black and white box. | |
| Single driver full range speakers Check out the Tribeca speaker from Bache Audio. They use Tang Band wide band drivers, with the whizzer removed, flanked by 2 woofers and a Fostex tweeter. | |
| Modern EL34s VS NOS Winged C - and return policies? Check out the Electro-Harmonix 6CA7. My amps use 6550/KT88 tubes and I either prefer my NOS Tung Sols or the SED Wing C 6550s. I can understand why you like those Wing C tubes. I used the 6CA7 amps in a Conrad Johnson amp I had and prefer those ... | |
| Cartridge and/or phono stage upgrades I was looking to upgrade my phono stage for my Lyra Kleos. Modwright and some others were on the list. Instead I bought a Sound-Smith Sussurro MKII Gold, Sound-Smith's MC phono stage, and an SBooster power supply. I was able to buy a demo cartridg... |