ACHTUNG BABY!!!!!!! (with due apologies to U2)
Silky smooth, grainless, porcelain-like texture, sharp focus, full upper-mids and sensuous highs. I'm talking about the preamp, anong brand ba yan?
DANKE, Herr Johannes.
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romeobabao wrote:i should be posting a picture of me staring with my mouth open,in absolute shock.....in a good way.
jadis wrote:STILL NOT MAXED OUT...
The Mini, as encouraged by its designer Alex Leung, has so much potential to achieve in mixing and matching different brands of NOS tubes. And definitely, I have not maxed it out yet (No pun intended). Tube sniffing dogs have been sent out to nab good NOS tubes and bring them home. So, what have recently arrived are a pair of Red Tipped (low noise special selection) Telefunken ECC83 tubes fully matched and balanced to challenge the existing and factory installed Eastern Electric ECC83s which my guess would be sourced either from Russia or China. Before anything else, I should say I am greatly impressed with these stock tubes. They can hold their own against other good NOS branded tubes I have come across and to date, and the stock tubes have performed better than the Euro brands, hence I have been using them till this time, that is, until the arrival of the German 'guards', here flanking the middle Mullard ECC 83 which has two tube dampers on them.
Morita had told me the 2 EE stock tubes can never be beaten. I agreed previously, but I told him this morning, I have to disagree as of today. The RT Teles created a more liquid and smooth sound, and where there erstwhile existed a mild edginess in the sound, the Teles have tamed them. My cup of tea exactly.
muypogi wrote:
Anyone know what the stock tubes are for the EE Minimax?
Thinking of tube rolling pero new issue Mullards/Gold Lions. . . any advantage rolling the rectifier, as there are some nice NOS tubes which is surprisingly cheap . . .
TheAnalogSource wrote:
finally after months of badgering that i should setup my system already, yesterday PM patiently waited to help me set them up again.
Now playing the Transfiguration, Minimax PHONO and LINE STAGE, and Dahlquist.
I got also an 8 watter poweramp for the JBLs.
Now if only I could just figure out how to work out the Minimax DAC.....
BenC wrote:Wow! That's a gorgeous looking Big Fun Horn! Mine which I did 12 years ago had straight inner walls as originally designed by Ketil Parow of Norway.
Before I forget, thank you for visiting our humble place which Judy and I call home.
When you left I did an experiment on my system. I repositioned the BFH. I figured since my place is small, moving the horn's mouth away from the corner will not reduce the bass output. My hunch was right! By doing away with the toe in and positioning the horns straight towards the back wall, I tamed the slight aggressiveness of the lowthers. The bass was still there but with a smoother sound! The system now sounds differently and a lot better than before.
BenC wrote:IIRC John JAA mentioned that the eastern minimax line stage made his DIY JL Audio sub sound like a servo subwoofer (parang Rythmik sub! I fully agree with him. That tiny piece of equipment made a huge improvement to my system! Can't wait to get home for a listen. This line stage is eating up my sleeping hours! ... Pat Morita, what have you brought to our shores!!!
TheAnalogSource wrote:
overhauled my electronics with an all minimax setup including the 8-watter poweramp. no... im not using the high sensitive jbl horns but rather my old love the dalhquist. im more than loving it so far.
as with the minimax phono, i believed morita is grinning these days as he moved a number of units with just a few months running . That phono is a dealer's delight. Not much explaining to do. Just let prospect try it and have them AB with even known brand phonostages. We always know which one bite the dust
Superman wrote:TheAnalogSource wrote:
overhauled my electronics with an all minimax setup including the 8-watter poweramp. no... im not using the high sensitive jbl horns but rather my old love the dalhquist. im more than loving it so far.
as with the minimax phono, i believed morita is grinning these days as he moved a number of units with just a few months running . That phono is a dealer's delight. Not much explaining to do. Just let prospect try it and have them AB with even known brand phonostages. We always know which one bite the dust
Congrats! Sent you PM
muypogi wrote:Kaya nga pinagbawalan ko na magdala ng demo unit ng preamp sa bahay . . .:-p
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