First off I would like to
Thank Gary Dodd and Danny Richie for sending us their equipment for our meeting. I would also like to
Thank Steve "alotaklipsch" for letting us borrow his Dodd 120 monoblocks, APL modified Dennon and some really expensive power cords by Purist Audio at the last minute. After reading a lot of wrong information I feel compelled to set the story straight. First off what was damaged in shipping was one of the monoblocks. Not any of the preamps. That is why Steve let us borrow his pair.
This is what equipment we were using at the meeting.
1) Dodd 120 monoblocks with rolled tubes.
2) New Dodd battery powered preamp with factory tubes.
3) Dodd 800 watt balanced power conditioner
4) APL modified Dennon cd player with rolled tubes.
5) G R Research open baffle speakers. Smaller version
6) 3 power cords from Purist Audio feeding the monoblocks and the APL cdp.
7) 1 Harmonic Tech power cord feeding the power conditioner.
Reality Cables limited availability interconnects
9) Reality Cables speaker cables
There was some miscommunication between Superphon and myself regarding the use of their Rev III preamp at our meeting. I was under the impression that I would listen to both of their preamps with some friends from the club at my place and let them know how they compared. I guess that they thought that we were going to do a comparison at the meeting. This was always only going to be a Dodd / G R Research meeting.
There was some comments about the system not sounding stellar. I will say that the amps had really expensive NOS tubes in them that were "tweaked" to Steve's system. He has the Epiphany 12/12 speakers. There may have been better tubes we could have used for this system but this was a last minute thing and did not have the time to roll tubes nor did I have access to the stock factory tubes. I am just thank full that we were able to borrow them at the last minute. I also set up the room along the long wall which is 90 degrees from our usual location. Normally our June meeting, because of summer time has less attendance than winter months. This other set up location has only ever been used twice before. The last time was well over a year ago. I thought that we were not going to have as good of a turn out as we did. The other location is better for more people. A good number of people had to sit to the outside of the speakers which is not an ideal listening setup. Sorry. Thanks to everybody that attended. I also would like to
thank MarkR for picking up (and returning) the equipment from Steve and helping me set up.
I heard comments from some of the guys that I had talked to at the break that the sound was "better than usual" and "sounding good".
For those that are demanding a side by side comparison with the 2 killer preamps, all that I will say is that both preamps are amongst the best preamps that money can buy. They both are in the same calibur as each other.
I still am not quite sure how someone can hear a system that they are not familiar with and determine that the preamp must not be that good. Or just because the system was not "stellar" determine that it was because of the preamp. That makes no sense to me unless you are familar with that room and every piece of gear used.
Gregg
I do not know why the face is coming up where the #8 should be?
