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It all started about 2 years ago when I went to a listening audition with a friend. This was my first touch with audiophile gear. I never knew how good music could sound and I was hooked ever since. I started modestly with a NAD setup and moved up to the system you see now. Musical Fidelity was one of the first audiophile systems I heard and I told myself I would own it one day. Voila!!! I'm exstatic. Learned alot along the way thanks to this website and everybody's help. Also learned how addictive this hobby can become spending almost all my money on this new system. Done some tube swapping trying the telefunkens, the cryo'd EI Yugo's and the original Svetlana's but found the Sylvania's to be the best. Want to try more tweaks in the future but have to wait for more funds ... JohnnyP.
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    • Jolida JD-100
    mod-1 unit. Have the Sylvania 5751 grey plate triple mica gold pins in the unit right now.
    • Musical Fidelity A-308
    integrated
    • TJL2W(DIY) (TJL2W-NeoCD3-HS)
    A Troels Gravesen design
    • Harmonic Technology Pro-Silway mII
    0.5m length
    • Harmonic Technology Pro-9 plus Bi-wire
    4' length
    • Foundation Research LC1
    hooked up to the Jolida
    • VH Audio Flavor 4
    DIY with Furutech Gold FI-11
    • PS Audio UPC-200
    Original cord for now!!!
    • Michael Keirl carbide ball isolation system
    under Jolida JD100
    • BDR Cones MIII
    under Musical Fidelity A308

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Hi out there. Just tried out the Ge 5751's triple mica black plates. Very nice balanced sound but I still prefer the Sylvanias better. I'm in the market of improving some of my cable and was wondering where I should start, IC's, speaker or PC? My budget would probably be around two to three hundred. Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions?

Also through my experiments I found that the Jolida seems to give off a lot of noise. To explain further I usually do noise floor test by putting my amp full blast with nothing playing to here the noise floor. I found a rough sounding hiss. So what I did is turn off the Jolida and did the same thing and found the hiss was gone. Then I turned on the the Jolida (turning the volume always to 0 before any changes) and found the hiss wasn't there. So I thought maybe it was gone. UNTIL I put a cd in it and once it read the cd the hiss was back. I've tried this with numerous cd's and also different tubes, same hiss. I was wondering if anyone else found this to be and is there any way to remedy this... Thanks JohnnyP.

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