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In Reply to: RE: Rogue Audio Ares tubes posted by PMC0607 on December 06, 2014 at 17:56:27
Some questions arise. Are the stock tubes not to your liking? Good old Brent chose some pricey tubes for a $2000 phono preamp. It would seem there might be cheaper choices. How about Gold Lion, for instance.
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I also wondered what sound you wanted from your pre. If you could describe which sound qualities you are seeking it would help guide the responses. I would suggest different tubes if you wanted a full warm and lush sound other than Telefunkens which are an excellent choice for other objectives like a very clean, pure, strong, signal for the full spectrum, and so forth. Others may hear it differently but you would be surprised with the consensus about certain brands.
Steve
Thank you all for all your responses, I listen to my system Monday and Tuesday for about 3 to 4 hrs each day and I'm still trying to get a base line. Every album that I played was like listening to it for the first time, I did not imagine the difference between the Stealth and the Ares was going to be that much!!!I need to keep on listening till I know this phono well and then start with the tweaks and mods; dampened the chassis, change the fuses for the AMR German fuses ( I got 3 for free) them roll the tubes.
I'm planing to do one @ a time to see the impact on the sound. As for what kind of sound I'm looking for, Hmm!!! Open, three dimensional, good highs, midrange and base. Be honest with y'all it is sounding really awesome right now as is.
Maybe if y'all know the kind of music I listen to that will also help with the tube selection; Rock n Roll, little country\blues, Pop music, little bit of Jazz. Dire Strait, Depechmode, Pink Floyd, Queen, Arctic monkeys, Of Monsters and Men, Lorde, Amy Winehouse, Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, Keb Mo, Ben Harper, Norah Jones, Aerosmith stuff like that. No classical and very little blues.Well I woke up today and fire up the system while drinking some coffee and listen for 1 or two hrs after the system was warm up. This JJ tubes sound good I wonder how much better the other tubes will sound???
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Well so far I order about two hundred dollars worth of vinyl for Christmas
Alice in Chain MTV unplug, Dave Matthews, Metallica box set, Norah Jones, Jack White, Munford & Sons and a few more. Need more vinyl for the Ares man these thing is sounding good really good.
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