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Originally Posted by timm
Well my pre is off to Cary. I'll keep my fingers crossed. Things were packed pretty well. Once it gets there they will diagnose the current issue and then we will talk about possible upgrades. I'm nervous.  |
No need to be nervous. In good hands there. You'll love it when you get it back and put some good "break-in" time on the new caps. Don't judge the sound in the first 10 minutes, give it a few weeks of run time before drawing conclusions, but you are talking "Pre-amp" vs. others here referring to Amplifiers.
I've had the Clarity, Jensen oils, and now the latest Mundorf Silver-Golds that Cary is liking so much right now. I was a bit uncertain too on the Mundorfs, but know the main engineer there and he pushed me in the right direction.
The issue around the leakage is still out there, but it seemed to related to a batch of the older 600v coupling caps from Jensen, and since then I've ran the newer Jensen 1000v oil version in my former SLI-80, and now in my SLP98 tube preamp, no issues after good use.
In a hybrid approach, I'm now running the new Mundorf Silver-Golds in my Cary tube amp, and the Jensen Oils in my SLP-98 preamp. I like the Mutdorfs in my big V12R amp quite a bit. Now considering swapping out the Jensens to the Mundorf Silver-Golds (non-oil) in my preamp too.
Agree with statements above. Jensens are a bit slower and more syrupy, and the Mundorf Silver-Gold's are a bit more open and faster in my system. ONCE the Mundorf Silver-Golds were more broken in on my system after the first 3+ weeks of running it, they started to smooth out even more, a tad softer, and NOW to the point where I'm swapping out my beloved Cardas Gold interconnect cables and trying my older Silver Interconnects to brighten it back up a tad. Both sound great either way. It's that much of a difference, worth the upgrade. Of course, once upgraded, then tube experimentation is always in order on the SLP-98.
It's totally a
preference thing like different flavors of ice cream, as previously noted. Can't go wrong either way IMO.