Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Listening impressions - Truth versus stock w. tubed preamp?

2008-06-07 Thread dtz
I don't think your issue should be a stock TP and a tubed preamp versus a MWTP. The MW has no trace of its old analog section. This has been replaced with an entirely new analog output stage. If you use a tube preamp on a stock TP, you will merely send that original analog signal to your amp. Any

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Listening impressions - Truth versus stock w. tubed preamp?

2008-06-04 Thread Shredder
I have some experience with the comparison. I have a Modwright TP that I run directly into 2 Classe mono amps w/no pre. My speakkers are Aerial 9s. A very good friend has a stock TP that he runs through a Modwright 9.0 pre into a Rogue hybrid ss/tube amp. His speakers are Dali Helicon 600s. At a

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Listening impressions - Truth versus stock w. tubed preamp?

2008-06-03 Thread ianr
I am -not- trying to start a flame war here. Just wondering if anyone here has done an A/B (back to back, not days apart) of a Modwright tubed Transporter versus a stock unit running into a tube preamp. If so, I'm interested in impressions / the differences you heard. It has been suggested that