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Hi All,I am at it again... getting ready to drop the hammer on a "power plant" for my setup. Here is a quick overview of the setup:
Carts - Stock Dyna DV20Xh/SoundSmith Retipped DV20Xh/Grado Platinum
Turntables - Rega P3/Stock RB300 and a Sota Sapphire with a Michell Technoarm
PhonoStage - Hagerman CornettII with fresh tubes
CDP - Marantz SA11-S1
Speaker Cables - Anti-Cables
Interconnects - Kimber Silver Streaks
Speakers - Paradigm Studio 60v4's and Harbeth Monitor 30's
Integrated Amp - Primaluna Prologue One with a crap load of tubes (more than I really care to admit other than saying that my backup's have backup's and they are backed up)What I am considering doing is replacing the Prologue One (d@mn fine beast) with a Prologue Two or kicking it up a notch and getting a Dialogue Two. Either of those fit well under my budget so I was thinking that I might pick up a power conditioner.
Now having said all of this out loud I start thinking (dangerous for me) that with the funds that I have available for this upgrade maybe I should go to an amp/preamp combo.
Your next question will probably be:
"what does the Prologue do that I don't like?". My reply would be ...nothing.Next question would be "what is the budget?". My reply would be ...under 4k new or used
I would love it if I could get an integrated or amp/preamp that uses the ludicrous amount of EL34/KT88/12AU/12AX tubes that I have but that would not be a show stopper.
The "list" of candidates are:
Prologue Two (cheap!)
Dialogue Two (...more serious and gives me pause)
QuickSilver Mid Monos and their linestage
BAT of some sort
Audio Research pairing like a LS-5 with a 100.2 (tube pre/solid power)
Ayre AX7e
Cayin a-100t or their A88TTons of choices to drive the speakers with... What do you think? Am I looking at the right stuff?
Brian
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