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In Reply to: RE: REVIEW: Triode TRV-P845SE Amplifier (Tube) posted by Ross on December 13, 2016 at 19:15:03
Congrats on a nice amp. I am not surprised that it ups the realism factor over the ARC amp. Consider a new preamp as well. The AI M3A is, ok, but there is significantly better without spending too much. The AI is blunting micro-dynamics to a significant degree.
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I don't know about the AI blunting micro dynamics because the increase in transparency was immediately apparent when I switched to the 845se. My sense so far is that it highlights deficiencies in other parts of the chain. If the AI was a limiting factor either the improvement would not have been as audible, or I would have heard other deficiencies. I have only listened to vinyl, and some net radio (as background to warm up the amp). I have not seriously listened to digital files streamed from my network server.
All that said, I recently found a great deal on a ARC SP10 preamp, and I am looking for an attractively priced AI M3B, which I understand to be much better than previous AI preamps.
Thanks for the comments.
See my reviews on positive feedback about 10 years ago where I did a multiple preamp comparison. The AI was my reference at the beginning but it did not stand up very well to the competition.
Th phono was ok because I had the John curl good phono boards but I quickly found a better outboard phono.
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instead they sounds the same in the midrange it just that the SP-11 has more convincing inner details and much better on the bottom end response.
Or if you can afford it go with the Ref1 as it bettered them both.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
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