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In Reply to: RE: tube preamp for Hafler amp posted by Eli Duttman on January 31, 2016 at 19:34:15
Hello.
If I understand your answer, you sent me the schematics to build a tube preamp? the issue is that I am a chef,therefore my electronic building skills are totally inexistent! I appreciate the idea, and saving money would be great, but I am going to have to pass.
Now , here is another thought: buy a used vintage tube preamp, and sent it to someone, like Van Alstine, that could rebuilt it with modern techniques and ingredients? Am I making sense, or just not at all?
Thoughts?
Thank you.
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I've put a bee in the bonnet of a person I trust. If he can build the hybrid line stage for you, within budget, you will be contacted. Under current circumstances, I can't oblige you.
BTW, it is a good idea to learn how to execute simple checks and repairs of your equipment. A DMM and soldering equipment should (IMO) be part of every 'phile's bag of tricks.
Eli D.
You have a large number of choices.
With that budget you might consider a nice used Rogue 99 Magnum (uses 6SN7).
I had one in my hands for a short period of time and wish I could have kept it.
@ Rockandroller I owned a predecessor of your speakers the Focal Electra 936s which were analytical, detailed and yes cool as opposed to warm. I went to the tube preamp with limited success. I was still trying to find the right combination of cables and other tweaks when a friend offered me an incredible deal on some tube monobloc power amps. The sound was transformed immediately my system finally sounded the was I had hoped it would. Other audio friends would say ' wow that sounds great what did you do to the speakers' . The answer of course was nothing, almost no one guessed it was the amps which were hiding in plain sight.
I had already switched to a 6SN7 line stage the AE-3 an incredibly inexpensive piece and some Cardas cables, which did move the sound closer to what I liked, but the tube power amps was what really made the system sound great. The AE-3 was made by a Cary subdivision is out of production but Kevin Deal at Upscale Audio had them anyway for a long time.
The best advice is indeed to stop digging, you are better off getting a speaker that will be less of a problem to amplify. I liked the Focal sound a lot but it did need some softening at the edges. I had heard them with other gear in a local dealer's showroom and Audio shows where the sound was just what I really wanted, so I kept digging. That doesn't mean you should.
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