Howard, thank you so much. What makes this place even more beautiful is the sound of my SET amps and their wonderful glow. My late night listening time is up by 50% now.
By the way, I love your system and "yes" it's making me Klipschorny :). I would love to hear them with your wonderful Quicksilver triod amps. I am sure they sound just spectacular. I wish I was living in west cost, I'm almost sure I'd be bothering you a lot.

soundnote August 24, 2005 13:49

Hi Ken,
Thank you so much for your kind comments. Yes, the change was big from SS to tubes but so was the quality of the sound. I am into this crazy hobby of ours for about 8 years now and frankly, it's been very educational(and costly) journey for me. I'll continue learning about music and equipments but I don't think I'll ever go back to SS again after hearing what tubes are capable of doing with todays' technology. I'm totaly in love with tubes right now, especially SETs.
Again, thank you for your comments and please let me know when you're in New York next time so we can get together.
David

soundnote August 23, 2005 21:35

I'll let you know about importers' recommendations on tube rolling later on.
Yes, I agree with HP and I think isolation devices are crucial when you're using this player. I previously tried maple blocks and various Symposium products under Lector and all of them somewhat improved the sound. But when I placed it on a Vibreplane, the sound dramaticly changed and overwhelmingly improved in the entire spectrum. I highly recommend you to try Vibraplane if you can.

soundnote August 23, 2005 14:26

Hi Hyu,

No, I haven't done that yet but it'll be the next thing I'm going to do as soon as I figure out other competible tubes with this player. I am using the tubes that came with the unit, ECC-81 and 12AT7. The user manual strongly advices to use same type of tubes for warranty purposes. So there's a bit of hesitation there for me but I intend to ask US importer of Lector who also lives in Nyc.

Are you using Lector also?

soundnote August 23, 2005 08:23

Thank you Art and Nocturn for your kind comments.
Noctrun, Lector electronics has started to gain recognition in the States and has been getting quite good reviews from audiophile publication lately. It is a small company in Italy and everything is handmade with passion. I had a chance to meet with the US impoter of Lector(Fanfare International in NYC) and in his personal system, I got to listen to other stuff from Lector and they're all very impressive.
Before I purchased the Lector, I was using Wadia 861 and honestly, I was quite happy with it. But after hearing the Lector, I made a decision and sold my Wadia 861 within 3 days and bought the Lector, that's how good it is. If I had to upgrade this player, I would probably buy something like Arts' Reimyo, nothing less.

soundnote August 02, 2005 17:27

Thank you for the kind words Chris.
Yes, it does actually sound much better and different then my previous system. Everything sounds much more real now. Reference 3A speakers are absolutely fantastic. Total goosebumps situation. Also, I have to mention that I was in close contact with Reference 3A(Divergent Technolgies)during and after purchasing the speakers and the customer service is very very good.
Thank you
David

soundnote August 02, 2005 06:59