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doug s. wrote:

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.

Doug, the REL is gone and I frankly do not look into tubes tuners anymore. I am bit frightened from the result I got from REL. It is not that REL is bad tuner it is just so far from where I am with my SS tuners that it is not even comparable. Thanks, for pointing out the Sherwood S3000ll. I am not familiar with it but if to look at the circus that it shall have way less selectivity, less sensitivity and less gain then RELL

http://www.dvq.com/hifi/images/sher_3000.jpg

Perhaps if I have one falling on my laps I will try it but I do not no see myself to spend any targeted efforts to do so.

doug s. wrote:

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

Because I have two of them but I need just one.

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