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Re: Advice re: improving a good thing - lots of detail

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Posted by Russ57 on August 9, 2006 at 09:53:07

In Reply to: Advice re: improving a good thing - lots of detail posted by AMoon on August 9, 2006 at 08:38:03:

What I find is that when guys first get started they buy what they can afford and then little by little try to make it better. They buy things like better tubes, caps, resistors, and fancy cables. All of this helps but IMHO it is not cost effective.

Instead my advice is to concentrate on getting the best source you can afford. Personally I would encourage you to invest in a turntable. You can buy records much cheaper and the sound quality is much better. Very much akin to the way tubes are just much better. It helps to have something to compare the CD setup to also.

If you get into vinyl a preamp will be required but if you don't a transformer based volume control is a good solution. Upgrading to a better quality CD player would be the place to go if vinyl is out of the question.

The 2K mark seems about where you get out of the same old same old stuff and move into a different class. I don't know your speakers enough to comment but the Abby is a very nice speaker provided your room isn't too big and you don't listen to loud complicated music.

Personally I don't waste my money on cables and I build my own amps and preamps. It is easy. Start off with a bottlehead preamp. Then basically copy it but use better tubes like directly heated triodes.

Russ

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