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| Leben CS300XS Tube Rolling I had to send my leben for repair after borrowing some vintage amperex el84s from a tube enthusiast friend of mine, later found that one of the tubes was bad and that caused an issue in one of the channels. Just a caveat to make sure you know what... | |
| Preamp for First Watt F7 When I had an F7 I used the Manley Shrimp (good impedance match and adds tubes) and the wyred4sound stp-se level 2 (so I could hear the amp characteristics). Both worked well, I think the tubes added something nice/worthwhile. I had the MZ2 mentio... | |
| Higher-End Class A/B vs. Class A Integrateds The Sugden class A integrated amps sound wonderful and are reasonably priced for their sound quality, especially when bought preowned. I downsized from LTA separates (a lot more expensive), and in my system I didn’t lose anything, very happy (runn... | |
| Looking for an all-in-one just-add-speakers streamer for my son to take to college +1 Kef lsxII, on sale now for $999 | |
| upgrade path from my current speakers? (Dynaudio Special Forty) +1 on the Atalante 3, have them with my sugden amp and they are superb! | |
| New Pass Labs Go To Reno HiFi and Mark were definitely a great source of info and gear! Anyone know what Mark’s personal hifi rig consists of? | |
| Red Wine Audio - 30.2 LFP-V 3 years ago I contacted Vinnie about this very thing and he replied: The 30.2 LFP-V battery is custom. I try to keep a few in stock at any given time. It is $395, and installation is $75. It is a little tricky to install because it is encased ... | |
| Preamp match for my First Watt F-7 amp. The ones I had with my F7 were the Manley Shrimp (tube pre with low output impedance), Wyred4Sound STP-SE stage 2 (mostly no gain), and DIY Pass B1 (no gain). I wish I’d had the eastern electric minimax or LTA MZ2 I have now, I think those would h... | |
| Upgrade Cart/Subplatter on Rega Planar 2 or Step up to Clearaudio Concept FWIW I went from VPI to the concept wood with satisfy kardon (not carbon) and use the nagaoka mp-200 cartridge to great effect. The concepts can be bought very reasonably pre-owned. Sounded better than a new model rega P3 that I also had at the ti... | |
| Devore 0/96 - Integrated AMP help My Devore Nines never sounded better than with the Linear Tube Audio Ultralinear amp (18W), across the entire frequency spectrum. Better than my previous pairings: Almarro A318B (had beaten all comers ’til LTA), Leben CS300xs, Firstwatt F7, Elekit... | |
| Equipment Report: Linear Tube Audio's New Ultralinear PLUS @dodgealum, remind us which preamp you are using? I love the UL which I have in the older enclosure with vol control, driven by an eastern electric minimax which adds nice body and drive without reducing clarity, at least to my ears (when compared... | |
| The best tube poweramp. . What do you think about ? Love my Linear Tube Audio ultralinear power amp with volume control (switch allows you to bypass it or not) with DeVore nines speakers. For the preamp I have an eastern electric minimax that pairs exceptionally well with the LTA adding some nice d... | |
| What integrated would you recommend for summer amp? I bought a “summer” amp because I don’t like to use the AC much and my Almarro, with its 6c33c tubes, runs so hot normally that I wanted to save it from burning itself up! Reason I put summer in double quotes is because it was also an excuse for m... | |
| Metrum Onyx versus Metrum Pavane A general comment, those looking at high end Metrum DACs should investigate the Sonnet products devised by Cees, the engineer/founder of Metrum before it was sold. I had lots of Metrum products, and the Onyx was my favorite (only used the RCA inpu... | |
| Auralic Vega DAC: How's it compare in 2020? I am frankly surprised how good the vega sounds in my system, it’s my first DAC that isn’t non-oversampling. I thought it would be a temporary replacement for the Metrum I sold while I save up for a Sonnet DAC, but I’m enjoying it immensely so may... |