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Re: Trigger finger is itchy [message #92826 is a reply to message #92663]

Sun, 20 December 2020 13:56

Rusty
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My review at long last. Drum roll..... crickets chirping. I found something that seems to accurately and visually accounts for what I'm enjoying from this line preamplifier with phono circuit built in. This is from a Danish speaker builder whom has tried a couple of Transcendent Sound products. Here he remarks about the prior phono preamp that the new Slider line preamp replaces.

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His remarks:

Above the perceived soundstage from these experiments. When we did the Densen/Transcendent comparison we first listened to the Densen and then the Transcendent and my guest bringing in the Densen said: "See, a wider soundstage!" And yes, I too hear a sort of wider soundstage, but at the cost of the holographic and expansive midrange good valve stages can create through good high-efficiency speakers (DTQWT in use here). From Densen and the Jasmine I hear a somewhat compressed midrange, very cool, very clean, but nevertheless without the transparent, almost "reach out and touch" properties of good valves.

I suspect this might be what Johnnycamp is experiencing with his new preamp. And will be the same with Bruce's phono preamp when made publicly available.
This seems to sum up what I'm hearing better than any gushing prose I can write. It was quite a change from my Graham Slee preamp with the volume setting I typically used. Going above 9 or 10 o'clock would make very loud music. The prior Transcendent phono pre was too hot to put in my system. When this new rig became available that sealed it. Now with a gain and volume setting to use, I'm typically putting the volume control around 1 or 2 o'clock and just bringing the gain setting up to about the 9 o'clock range for typical listening levels. I get better channel balance, just like the man says in his write up. What he states is right on. Now, I guess I'll try out some different 12AX7's and hear what gives.

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		Trigger finger is itchy By: Rusty on Mon, 27 July 2020 12:53
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Wayne Parham on Mon, 27 July 2020 13:14
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: gofar99 on Tue, 28 July 2020 21:40
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Rusty on Wed, 29 July 2020 12:51
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Wayne Parham on Wed, 29 July 2020 13:33
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Rusty on Wed, 29 July 2020 19:30
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: gofar99 on Wed, 29 July 2020 20:27
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Rusty on Sat, 15 August 2020 11:13
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Wayne Parham on Sat, 15 August 2020 15:10
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Rusty on Mon, 31 August 2020 16:02
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Wayne Parham on Mon, 31 August 2020 17:33
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: johnnycamp5 on Tue, 01 September 2020 12:05
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Rusty on Sun, 13 September 2020 15:07
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Wayne Parham on Sun, 13 September 2020 16:29
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: johnnycamp5 on Mon, 05 October 2020 14:25
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Rusty on Mon, 05 October 2020 15:59
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: johnnycamp5 on Mon, 05 October 2020 19:18
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Rusty on Tue, 06 October 2020 15:36
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: gofar99 on Thu, 08 October 2020 21:46
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Rusty on Fri, 09 October 2020 08:41
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: gofar99 on Fri, 09 October 2020 21:51
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Wayne Parham on Sat, 10 October 2020 09:58
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Rusty on Sat, 10 October 2020 12:12
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Wayne Parham on Sat, 10 October 2020 15:25
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Rusty on Fri, 23 October 2020 05:29
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Rusty on Tue, 17 November 2020 14:59
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Wayne Parham on Tue, 17 November 2020 15:10
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: johnnycamp5 on Thu, 19 November 2020 16:19
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: johnnycamp5 on Sun, 22 November 2020 18:33
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Rusty on Mon, 23 November 2020 07:30
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Rusty on Sun, 20 December 2020 13:56
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: johnnycamp5 on Mon, 21 December 2020 06:43
		Re: Trigger finger is itchy By: Rusty on Mon, 21 December 2020 11:57

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