Hi everybody,
I am a new kid in this circle. But I have spent many nights learning your experiences in using Modwright and I finally joined the club. I received my LS36.5+PS36.5 and KWA150 in early Oct, since then I have put about 65 hours on the combo. So far so good, it did a significantly better job than my replaced McIntosh MA6900 from the first minute. Currently, I am running with all the stock tubes, but very much want to do tube rolling. Learning from your advices and experiences, I am searching for vintage 6H30-DR and GZ34/5U4GB, let me know if you have any good suggestions, the 6H30-DR are getting very expensive
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My question now is about the Power Cord to use with the PS36.5 and KWA150, also the IC for the combo. I like to get advices from this forum as to your choices on these cables, and their unique sound quality when paired with the Modwiright gears. I am currently using a Zu Varial 1.5M RCA to connect the 36.5+ and KWA, it is so far so good, but I heard many said using XLR cables will bring the best out for this combo. And I know I still have some 300 to 400 hours to completely break in the Modwright amps, so I don't know what I am missing at the moment.
My sourcs are both CD and LP, I use CD for general burn in, but mostly listen to LP when I have time to sit down and enjoy. I have a Music Maker III cart on a Audiomods tonearm (Rega mod arm), and an Ortofon Rondo Bronze paired with a Jelco tonearm. If you are a LP lover, you will know, Music Maker is musical and engaging (using 100k loading), it produce better bass weight, but not as fine and detailed as the Ortofon. So I tends to use Music Maker for vocal, Jazz and simple classical performance, and use Ortofon for Sym recordings play back. My CD sound is relatively a bit more cold than LP. I am using a pair of Canton Vento Ref 7DC speakers, I already have hundreds of hours on it so is fully run in. Typical German speakers, very balanced, detailed and natural, can produce very good bass with its size, IMHO.
So much on my system, I like to be able to feel the emotions of the singers and the instruement players from the music, not necessary making the best HiFi scores but should have enough fine details and good control to produce the closest to original real work from the recordings. On top of that, I guess I like the sound to be a little bit on the warmth side with some mass, but not too much. I tried a Japanese Cyro power cord on the 36.5 and it response to it positively, bass control gets better. I have also put on a Siltech 330i RCA between the pre and power amp, and it improves the two ends extension and better details, but I don't necessary like it better than the Zu Varial which is more comfortable and relaxing to listen to.
Let me know what ICs and PCs that you are using, or have tried before ... many thanks.
