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For the money, the best I have heard are 1960’s NOS Sylvania 6SN7 GTB’s bought for about $35 apiece from Brent Jessee that have an exuberant, sparkly top They sound significantly better than any of the new production tubes that I have experienced
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NOS Mullards don’t have extended highs like Amperex or Bugle Boys, but have more realistic highs than new production They’re also more detailed, have a lush midrange, and 3D soundstage which can be holographic in the right preamp The problem is price and availability
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FYI: ARC's advice on the "care and feeding" of the CD-8: "Hi Bruce, "The CD8 is pretty maintenance free The main thing is to replace tubes every 2 4000 hours and keep the laser door closed when not in used
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Anyway, I've owned the Adcom 5400, Parasound Halo A21 and presently have a current production Adcom GFA 565SE, which is a different animal from the decades old 565 And a few other amps along the way The current production Adcoms are very competitive soundwise, if you don't need bling or jewelry
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I typically stick with NOS tubes but have decided to try some new production tubes for a change To be used in a Ming Da tube preamp modded by Response Audio - Vcaps Hoping to warm up the mids a bit without making the upper treble harsh, bright I checked out websites - Doug and Cryoset Considering the following 1) Voshod Sunrise 12AX7VKA
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These boosted the sampling frequency from 400khz to 800khz Power remains the same at 170w 4ohm or 85w 8ohm The improvement was quite a bit better in my system Better separation and soundstage More air and organic nature to the sound So much so that these AGD Audions Mk2 are now the primary amps in my systems
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I remember a label representative saying a few ago that "when you send a master to five differnt production plants you get back five different sounding CDs" If you study JVC's XRCD process you will see where standard CD production methods can and will go wrong A lot has to do with proper clocking of all the involved components
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So I will keep my my old out of production W M Audio AC-01 interconnect (payed used 35 Euro 10 years ago) Fortunately I have 2 pairs of this cable so I think I will keep for many long time About the FURUTECH FP-S032N power cable, for my opinion sound better then my old wireworld stratus 7
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