Groomlakearea51:

How 'bout a Sansui AU-9900, fully restored, mint condition, new caps, full service adjusted, etc.... Serious ss and will make a tube amp owner question their "faith"..... I just so happen to have one.... just sitting around.... not doing anything.... shiny.... lot's of serious knobs.... Just waiting for a new home.....

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The sansui would be a sweet set up.  I had my cornwalls over at a friends house and we hooked them up to a mcintosh tube preamp and ss mcintosh mono blocks...closet thing to my tube amp I have heard.  I also really like my old advent 300 it has a nice warm sound.

Groomlakearea51:

How 'bout a Sansui AU-9900, fully restored, mint condition, new caps, full service adjusted, etc.... Serious ss and will make a tube amp owner question their "faith"..... I just so happen to have one.... just sitting around.... not doing anything.... shiny.... lot's of serious knobs.... Just waiting for a new home.....

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SWL:

KMV,

I have a vintage Harmon Kardon 430 twin powered unit that you could check out if you'd like. There are a few guys here that dig the combo.

El cheapo and sounds very good.

SWL,

Yea, I definitely heard that older Harmon Kardons were pretty nice (not sure about the new ones though).  If you're not to far away, I'd like to give them a try as well.

Mike Dubay:

I have recently built a pair of Cornscalas, which have similar bass characteristics as the Cornwalls.  I currently have an Adcom 454II amplifier with a passive preamplifier.   I found a good match that gives a more relaxed high end is to use a carbon based potentiometers for the attenuation with a solid state amp.  Various brands of potentiometer from Alps to Radio Shack giver different tonal qualities.  My Alps based passive gives a laid back hight end, but keeps the bass tight.  With the cheaper RS based passive, I loose some bass tightness, but an ever more laid back high end.

Good luck on your search for amp nirvana!  You will love the Cornwalls.

Wow, Cornscalas? Got the best of both worlds; I can only imagine how good that sounds, Congrats!  Passive pre's never crossed my mind, I'll have to check them out.  I heard that B&K's are pretty nice (on the warm side).  I'm thinking a decent laid back passive pre (carbon-based - still want tight bass) with B&K 125.2 or 200.2?

KMV:

Mike Dubay:

I have recently built a pair of Cornscalas, which have similar bass characteristics as the Cornwalls.  I currently have an Adcom 454II amplifier with a passive preamplifier.   I found a good match that gives a more relaxed high end is to use a carbon based potentiometers for the attenuation with a solid state amp.  Various brands of potentiometer from Alps to Radio Shack giver different tonal qualities.  My Alps based passive gives a laid back hight end, but keeps the bass tight.  With the cheaper RS based passive, I loose some bass tightness, but an ever more laid back high end.

Good luck on your search for amp nirvana!  You will love the Cornwalls.

Wow, Cornscalas? Got the best of both worlds; I can only imagine how good that sounds, Congrats!  Passive pre's never crossed my mind, I'll have to check them out.  I heard that B&K's are pretty nice (on the warm side).  I'm thinking a decent laid back passive pre (carbon-based - still want tight bass) with B&K 125.2 or 200.2?

Probably not the 200.2, since even the 125.2 would be plenty for the Cornwalls.

Simply Stereo is a great place.  I ordered my RF-83 setup thru them, one place is closer to me but SS is a lot more friendly and very helpful.

So back to your Cornwalls and the perfect addition to them.  Check out my profile as I have a Marantz, Yamaha, and H/K receivers from the 70's that I love with my vertical Corns, and a Mac setup.

If you would like to try one or two out just let me know and I can load them up and take over.  It's always nice to meet up with fellow members, plus Schaumburg is about an hour away.

James

Passive are so simple to build that I don't have any recommendations on units already built.  Here is an article with a schematic. http://www.dact.com/html/passive_preamp.html and the a source for the potentiometer http://angela.com/alpsbluevelvetpotentiometers.aspx.  Should be a good match to most solid state amps.

B&K pairs great with Klipsch.  The ST-125.2 (now badged as Reference 125.2) is more than sufficient & you can pick them up dirt cheap on epay - don't worry about buying used, they're pretty much bullet proof.

As you can see from my sig. line, I'm a B&K fan.  BIG step up from my previous Carver based system.

James

jamesV:

Simply Stereo is a great place.  I ordered my RF-83 setup thru them, one place is closer to me but SS is a lot more friendly and very helpful.

So back to your Cornwalls and the perfect addition to them.  Check out my profile as I have a Marantz, Yamaha, and H/K receivers from the 70's that I love with my vertical Corns, and a Mac setup.

If you would like to try one or two out just let me know and I can load them up and take over.  It's always nice to meet up with fellow members, plus Schaumburg is about an hour away.

James

Totally agree, can't beat Simply Stereo's customer service.  Unfortunately, I did not have time to audition the M3 on the cornwalls last weekend, I probably won't be able to audition it for almost a month now.  I'd definitely like to listen to some old Marantz sound with cornwalls, appreciate your response.  Probably won't get time till probably next mo. however.      lol, just got tied up with work and trips.

Mike Dubay:

Passive are so simple to build that I don't have any recommendations on units already built.  Here is an article with a schematic. http://www.dact.com/html/passive_preamp.html and the a source for the potentiometer http://angela.com/alpsbluevelvetpotentiometers.aspx.  Should be a good match to most solid state amps.

 

 

Sweet, thanks

KMV:

Probably won't get time till probably next mo. however.

Just drop me a pm when you get the time and we can work something out.

James