Shakeydeal

Loving it!

You haven’t found the right tube amp. The right one will sound fantastic with all genres of music and make you forget about solid state. Not sure where this idea of “tube compression” comes from. Tubes breathe life into music.

Denafrips Pontus II and a Soundsmith cart with 2.2mv output, phono stage has 46 db of gain. Plenty of range on both, more on the phono actually.

No it’s 1.5. We had that discussion during the build process. I have an EL84 amp also built by Aric with 2v input sensitivity and I can get pretty close to running out of gain on some material. The 300B amp seems about right in comparison.

Beautiful. GLWS…

I agree. In the past I’ve liked to stay at 1v or less. But this works fabulously. I have all the usable gain I need and dynamics are off the chart. I’m very happy with this amp.

In all honesty, if this anomaly presents itself in a very small percentage of your favorite recordings, why do anything? Let’s say it’s 1 out of a 100. Is it really worth the effort? Focus on the music that does sound good. And if you really must play that 1% , just suck it up and enjoy the music and not sweat the less than stellar recording quality. That advice is free and worth what you paid.

Yeah, one way or another, methinks he’s not long for this world……

You certainly are full of yourself...

Could be a phase issue. The 76 khorns I purchased had the xovers wired out of phase. Sound was horrible until I caught that issue.

I replaced caps in khorn AA xovers with sonicap and the sound actually became worse. Just food for thought.

My reply was actually a joke, but obviously not a very good one if I have to explain it. You guys continue smacking away at this horse, he ain't quite dead yet. For me, I will continue to blissfully and ignorantly enjoy my lascalas while not worrying a whit about all things EQ. Carry on....

Somehow I think I should be offended by that....

There's been a lot of bandwidth expended on this when it's probably just a nothingburger.

Mcintosh and Luxman are two that I can think of. Hardly mainstream or the norm.

Now you're talkin......

@Stephen Buck You can only imagine how good those AL5s will sound once you get some good gear in front of them.

If it contributes to you enjoying music more, then it's all good. That is, after all, what we want, right?

Get your room and system right and EQ can go pound sand......

The 8033 in my system is not in the signal path for anything but the subwoofer amp. I use the second set of outputs from my preamp to the device, then out from there to the left and right subwoofers. In your instance, I wouldn't be surprised if it adds (or takes away) something. Which is why I wouldn't use DSP in my system for anything other than low frequencies.

I'm not trying to answer for @henry4841, but my take is that if you have a source with 2v output, have 104 db speakers, and an amplifier with high(ish) input sensitivity, you are a prime candidate for a passive linestage.

I use the Dspeaker Anti-mode 8033 II on my subs and it works as advertised. I wouldn’t be without it. I have no experience with their full range room correction products.

Famous last words…..😆

Question. Did you have the CW4 and the AL5 in the exact same location? And I don’t mean near each other, but exactly. If not, you may be hearing a room node exacerbated by the position of the LaScala. If so, try the Cornwalls in that location. And make sure your location is the same every time.