This is very interesting thread. Different rooms? Different hemispheres? One man's roller coaster is another man's Sunday drive? I only goes to underline how fiercely, and perhaps frustratingly subjective this "sport" is. We're all chasing different ghosts.
A couple years ago I ran a Leben CS600 & RS30EQ alongside my Allnic T1500 & H3000. The Lebens were clean and refined and very easy on the eyes. The Allnic combo had an edge in realism, vocals were coming out of faces, I could almost see what gauge strings Bert Jansch was plucking etc. The dimensions of my room would change with platter sides and I consistently got that eerie feeling that life, rather than reproduction, was happening in front of me. I decided that I couldn't live with out that edge. The Lebens live at a friend's place now so I get to visit both of them, which is always great. I also love coming home.
Anyway, my amps should be warm by now and I think I hear them ghosts calling.
I have just gotten hold of the H3000v and the Allnic is anything but homogenous.. the spaitialThe Pacific NW Audio Society had a phono pre demo at the last meeting. The units were the Allnic H3000, Doshi, Lamm 2.1 and the Z-Infinity. I felt the Allnic was flat and too homogenized. It was alright, but not anything to write home about.
Holy thread resurrection!
Just for the record I'm running a HA5000 (later two input version of the HA3000 head amp) and H7000V - and I couldn't be happier. It's an absolutely killer combination. Using a new production KR rectifier in the H7000V, but even with a relatively modest NOS Sylvania replacing the stock Chinese 5U4G, the sound was already superb.
Interestingly (in context of the Leben mention above) my power amp is a Leben CS1000p, using KT90s which are just sweet and lovely with it, without any loss of slam from dropping the KT120s, which to my ears sounded a bit too thick and not delicate/nuanced enough in this amp.
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