My dad just did that with a system I helped him put together. At first I was put back a bit, but remembered that it was he who had the tube systems when I was young, probably the very reason I have an interest in all this…
what is the max Vpp with decent distortion that WOTS LeGrand and WOTS TRE can provide?
I would like to drive a buffer like an F4 or MoFo or LUFo with one of these nice musical preamps....
I would like to drive a buffer like an F4 or MoFo or LUFo with one of these nice musical preamps....
I do have F4 in one of the systems. Great buffer. However, when i tried some solid states preamps recommended, like ba3fa, alpha20, jc2, sound was analytical, and sharp with my 4way dome based speakers.
JC2 was the least offensive, that is, softer than other preamps i tried.
Whammy is great, clean and precise, ACP+ even better. As headphone amp or pre.
However, it was when i used musical fidelity tube headphone amp, first version, modified, power supply upgraded, with 6N6 tubes, i got the sound i exactly wanted.
Pure highs, crystal clear bells, musical mids, voices standing out, each instrument easy to follow. Certain recordings gave me chills down the spine, even made me tear up.
Rarely clean sterile solid state pre can do that.
When you go out eat with your friends, do you select food based of the elemental analysis or taste?
I had/have many highly regarded top of the line ss preamps. Onkyo, Sanyo Plus, PS audio, Nikko, Parasound, NAD. Not the sound i am after.
JC2 was the least offensive, that is, softer than other preamps i tried.
Whammy is great, clean and precise, ACP+ even better. As headphone amp or pre.
However, it was when i used musical fidelity tube headphone amp, first version, modified, power supply upgraded, with 6N6 tubes, i got the sound i exactly wanted.
Pure highs, crystal clear bells, musical mids, voices standing out, each instrument easy to follow. Certain recordings gave me chills down the spine, even made me tear up.
Rarely clean sterile solid state pre can do that.
When you go out eat with your friends, do you select food based of the elemental analysis or taste?
I had/have many highly regarded top of the line ss preamps. Onkyo, Sanyo Plus, PS audio, Nikko, Parasound, NAD. Not the sound i am after.
Exactly why I would try the WOTS LeGrand or WOTS TRE to drive the F4, it may be less sterile...
But I need at least 10Vpp to match my 96dB speakers
Isnt the ACP+ a kind of low power J2 ? Musicality comes from SE topology?!
Merry Christmas to all
But I need at least 10Vpp to match my 96dB speakers
Isnt the ACP+ a kind of low power J2 ? Musicality comes from SE topology?!
Merry Christmas to all
I'm late, just could grab a computer, I'm out for vacation. Both WOTS are 20db preamplifiers, not designed to drive a buffer, the gain would be too low. I didn't measure their output voltage swing, I can only imagine that it could reach at least Vpp=1/4Vb without any problem.
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Boy you do contradict yourself.
That requires linearity, accuracy, you-name-it, in case you didn´t notice.
Unfortunately, i am not a boy anymore.
I am working on the most linear tube pre in case you didn't notice.
I am working on the most linear tube pre in case you didn't notice.
Fun fact, leonardo never finished mona lisa painting. It was never meant as portrait for her. He carried this painting with him for decades, and worked on it over and over. Without ever seeing her. This was one of few paintings he had with him when he died.
Accuracy was never the goal for him. Certain feeling, expression of which he tried to capture.
Thats what i meant.
When i listen to dvorak or tchaikovski, i am looking to attain the same feeling the composer intended. Accuracy is not a goal.
You can missinterpret my words anyway you like, what do i care.
Accuracy was never the goal for him. Certain feeling, expression of which he tried to capture.
Thats what i meant.
When i listen to dvorak or tchaikovski, i am looking to attain the same feeling the composer intended. Accuracy is not a goal.
You can missinterpret my words anyway you like, what do i care.
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One more fun fact. Portraits of famous composers are rarely about accuracy. Beethoven was ugly mousy chicken pox covered scarface. Yet he looks so heroic on his portraits, even mother would not recognize him. Accuracy was not the goal.
Same goes for Mozart.
Same goes for Mozart.
Well I can no doubt speak for both Mozart and Beethoven when I declare WOTS would bake them BARF as it does for me😉
No. If a device changes the sound its an effects box, a properly designed pre amp does not change the sound, except for level. Your tube pres add distortion, and just because you like distortion dosnt mean it sounds better to others. Some people don't want to look at the world thru rose colored glasses.
People used to listen on cylider of vax with distortion exceeding tens of percent.
People used am radios with limited high frequencies.
People used to listen to tiny poor fullrange without box.
No one was appalled.
Mozart listened to a radio? Did he like what it did to his orchestra?
Rose colored glasses, that is original
Unlike two parrots before about putting shades on mona lisa
Who says they were not appalled?
SPECIALLY people who regularly listened to live Music!!!!
They accepted it only for the novelty value and, o0 course, there was nothing else!!!!
But their ears bled because of the screechiness and distortion.
So much so, that for decades "Tone" control meant murdering high frequencies. (hint: scratchiness and distortion).