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In the Thread: A tube tuner? REL Precedent 646C

Post Subject: Tubed tuna?Posted by doug s. on: 8/16/2009

hi romy,

i have never heard the rel. but, if you want to hear a tubed tuna at its best, pick up a sherwood s3000ll or later, get it serviced, and run it thru one of your mpx decoders. or get one w/a built-in sherwood mpx. this is tube sound as good as you are going to get, imo. it should rival your tu-x1 for sound, tho it will not be as sensitive. i have a couple different sherwoods - s3000lll mono, s2100-ll stereo, (both never serviced), and a refurb's s3000v stereo. the sound of these, (the mono iteration being run thru a studio-12 decoder), all rival my refurb'd modded tu-x1 for sound. don't let the low price fool you. they were all better sounding than the modded-to-the-gills mac mr65b i used to own.

best,

doug s.

(ps - why selling that to-die-for r&s decoder?)

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