at my house today.
Carl is on his way over so we can play around and listen to some stuff, and we'll report back on that end of things.
Otherwise, we have here before us my Audio Experience Symphonies +, with rolled tubes consisiting of a Philps JAN 6x4 and 3 Sovtek 12ax7's.
I have a pair of NOS JAN 5751s to roll into that for the outputs tubes, plus i'll try Carls as well.
Carl has his beta MODwright 9.0 line stage preamp, complete with bomber ass outboard power supply. Comes w/a pair of Tungsol 12ax7's, and we can swap out everything between what we have for tubes on hand.
I've got a pair of GT 12ax7 Mullard re-issues coming...whish they were here now.
Pics attached.
Question for you techies.
I want to upgrade my parts on the Symph board. everything is very spaced out and easily accessable. Looks like an easy MOD job waiting to happen. My question is, seeing how I dont know what i'm looking at really, what shoudl "come out" and what should replace those parts?
please, lmk.
We'll report back on our listening results later.
fwiw...Carls preamp retails for $2k, picked up used for a cool G or there abouts I believe. Mine retails for $690. Picked up used for $375.
I expect the MODwright to smoke my Symphonies. we'll see!
We'll be running into my custom ICEpower 250wpc amp and the trusty VonSchweikert VR4 GEN1's. All ICs are Gregg Stralley "red licorace" models except the DVD-A > preamp pair which are cryo'd Boulder M-80s.