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In the Thread: Where the FM quality comes from?
Post Subject: Once again, I would like to keep automobile sound out of this subject. Posted by Romy the Cat on: 7/4/2007
 Wojtek wrote: |
| With the stock radio-CD and buzzing fulrange speakers in my Civic I often find myself puzzled how pleasant and musical this crap sounds. If only I could get close to it at home -fruitless pursuit so far .Romy when it comes to tube tuners is it a high output impedance unsuited for passive pre that puts you off ? |
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Tubes, most likely, are good for power only.
I do not use any passive pre and it is not what puts me off. I generally do not like tube at line-level as I feel that they under-perform. I feel that a tube is devise to be use in output stage in power amps – here where tubes are glorious. At line-level (if it’s not input or driver stage) tubes have issuers…
The Magnum Dynalab has tuber with output tube stage do not sound very poorly; in fact any Magnum’s tuners sound poorly and I would not blame the output tubes as their SS tuners sound identically wishy-washy. The last Magnum that I tried sounded like you take a ball of cotton, submerged it in chicken broth, apply salt and paper and then eat…. Yeak! Ugly…. Many consumer-level tuners without any high-end paranoia are way more interesting sounding then Magnum. Among the tuners among those that I owned (I owed Magnum as well) the flowing consumer-grade tuners were incontestably more attractive: Yamaha CT-7000, Yamaha T-2… (I do not even mention the Sansui TU-1X that is a very different beast)
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