[Boon[_2_]]

On May 25, 6:50*pm, Clyde Slick wrote:
On May 25, 4:39*pm, Boon wrote:

On May 25, 12:34*pm, Clyde Slick wrote:

My 299 was nice, but had some reliability issues as well. If I left it
on for more than a couple of hours, I started to smell smoke. The
imaging was NOT up to modern standards.

I know what you mean about the imaging, but that is no' *the be all
and end all of audio
presentation, and *would give up some of that
to get the warmth and fullness of the Scott's

I find that the Scot 7189 amps image better than the 7591 amps.
You might like one of those a little better
Pierre Sprey had been doing some mods to them, but
the Mapleshade site does not shoe this anymore..

By the way, is the MM cart you're going to mount from The Cartridge
Man? Those are fine MMs.

If you want to talk about an older tube preamp that really lights my
fire, then I'd have to say the Audio Research SP-3s are still pretty
spectacular.