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| vintage '50s 12AX7: Mullard, Amperex BB, Brimar My favorite 12AX7 is the Amperex BB Long plate G-getter. For details regarding its sonic virtues take a look at my GON review on the AA reference Hybrid Tube DAC. My second favorite is the Mazda which I also reviewed, so you can get the informatio... | |
| Music First Audio Passive Magnetic Preamplifiers? Dracule1, are you sure John has stopped building the Tap X preamp? Only a cuople of months ago a friend called him to discuss the Tap X and he was still building them then. His website still offers it as a current model. Please share more about th... | |
| Music First Audio Passive Magnetic Preamplifiers? Hi Elduende14, I think you are asking about the Music First passive preamp which is transformer based, not magnetic. This type of passive is called a TVC for transformer volume control, instead of using resisters.Yes, I have heard it, however it i... | |
| Review: Accustic Arts Reference Tube Hybrid DAC II DA converter Cykeric, since I own in my collection over 6000 redbook CD's, that's the only format I care about. In my opinion your statement that CDP's have a sonic advantage regarding getting rid of jitter, hence sounding better has not been my experience. I ... | |
| Review: Accustic Arts Reference Tube Hybrid DAC II DA converter Cykeric, I'm a little confused, I did GON reviews on both the DAC 1-MK4 and the Drive 1-MK2 which compared them to the first generation AA pieces, not the Reference Tube Hybrid DAC. Take a look at them, if you have not already.Regarding your quest... | |
| Review: Accustic Arts Reference Tube Hybrid DAC II DA converter Cykeric, the short answer is no, it won't sound too forward and not natural enough.Read my review of both pieces for the details why both pieces, Drive 1MK2/DAC 1MK4, will be an improvement sonicly over the prior generation. | |
| Running Springs Audio Lacee, I have compared both Shunyata and the Walker power conditioners to the RS Dimetri and found the the Dimetri was the hands down winner across the board in my system.Take a look at my review of the Dimetri here on the GON for details regardin... | |
| Review: Concert Fidelity CF-080 Preamplifier Last week I had one those "you got to be kidding me" moments regarding the CF-080. I was aware that Mr. Tsuda highly recommended tube rolling and experimenting with footers or isolation devices to get the maximum performance out of the CF-080 prea... | |
| PC for Running Springs Dmitri conditioner The best sounding power cord I have tried with the Dmitri by far is Running Springs Audio's own HZ power cord. Tried at least four other cords and the HZ was by far the best. | |
| New JJ Tesla tubes Hififile, without being crude, they suck big time. Compared to NOS 12AX7 tubes, the JJ's sound broke. | |
| audio valve eklipse or aesthetix calypso Kabaraka, Audio Valve will tell you that the pair of tubes on the left, assuming your looking at the preamp from the front, are the lead tubes and therefore are more important then the other pair of tubes. My experience has been that both set of t... | |
| audio valve eklipse or aesthetix calypso Lacee, you must have bad luck with NOS tubes. I agree that the RCA Clear tops are not that much better sounding then the EH tubes in the Eklipse. However either NOS Amperex long plate G getters or NOS Mullard long plate square getters bring the pe... | |
| audio valve eklipse or aesthetix calypso Kabaraka, I would not use the term, "blow away", to describe what would be the difference sonicly between the VTL2.5 and the Eklipse. When I have auditioned the reference VTL linestage compared to the Eklipse, with the right NOS tubes, the Eklipse... | |
| Review: Concert Fidelity CF-080 Preamplifier Paul, I got the Mullard long plate square getters from Brent Jesse Audio. | |
| Slagle AVC Modules & Lightspeed Attenuator Paul, yes I did a review on the XA-60.5's here on the GON. I was surprized how much of a sonic difference, for the better, the 60.5's made in my system compared to the XA-100's. Yup, it would be fun to hear the L.A. in my system. Don't know if you... |