This is probably a sacriligious topic for a Dynaco Tube Audio Forum, but there's got to be a few bottle-heads who keep a solid-state preamp and amplifier on hand for emergency listening purposes. Once you get spoiled on tubes it's difficult to imagine a "great"-sounding sand amp, but are there ones out there sufficient to prevent high-fidelity withdrawal? McIntosh and Bryston come to mind; I'm partial to Bedinis, but there must be others.
Reason for asking is that I may "bench" my M-125s this summer and re-wire them with silver, replacing the tube sockets with something more tube-roller friendly -- realizing full well that this probably voids whatever explicit or implied warranties attach to Bob's fine kits -- and there will be a hole of silence that needs to be filled with something approximating music.
Reason for asking is that I may "bench" my M-125s this summer and re-wire them with silver, replacing the tube sockets with something more tube-roller friendly -- realizing full well that this probably voids whatever explicit or implied warranties attach to Bob's fine kits -- and there will be a hole of silence that needs to be filled with something approximating music.
And I seem to remember from an article in The Absolute Sound that a heavy 24k gold plating on the chassis has salutary effects as well, plus making them too heavy to steal.
