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Old 11-27-2011, 11:14 PM
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Old 11-27-2011, 11:29 PM
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Congrats Andy
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Old 11-28-2011, 12:06 AM
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Ended up with the SE - we shall see....
Great choice! You will love it.
Run it connected to a power amp with an MP3 player on loop for two three weeks and it will be broken in. The power amp does not have to be powered on. Every time you do not listen to music leave it on with a radio or MP3 signal to break in.

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Old 11-28-2011, 01:38 AM
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I spotted this disconcerting statement on a review of the ET3:

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Like all c-j preamps, you need to phase invert the signal at the speaker terminals if you want to keep the sound in absolute phase.
Conrad-Johnson ET3 preamp (Hi-Fi+ 75) | AVguide

Now given I have active speakers...and the CJ isn't balanced...that may be a problem. Anyone ever noticed a problem?
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Now given I have active speakers...and the CJ isn't balanced...that may be a problem. Anyone ever noticed a problem?
That would be a problem as you will be listening out of absolute phase. You have two options:
1. If your speakers have a phase inversion switch, you can use it.
2. Re-wire you interconnects between the preamp and the speakers to inverse phase. This is not particularly difficult.

I have read somewhere that there are RCA-RCA plugs that inverse phase but this will put another set of connectors in the signal pass.
I am sure all the hasle will still be worth it when you hear the ET3SE.
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Old 11-29-2011, 02:26 AM
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Thank you- I am having some cables made up now inverting phase.
Received my ET3 today. Am not even listening to it for 72 hrs or so : it's on loop ATM burning in. I had a brief listen through headphones and it was horrid - so that is that till Friday: don't want to fall out of love with it before I fall in love

Thanks everyone for your input.
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Good luck Andy. Don't worry, patients grasshopper. Your reward will come.
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Yes, patience will be key, Andy.

Remember some of us have been on this path since February....

Trust us on this....
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February? I'd have set fire to it after March....that is crazy stuff.
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Yup.

That's life with Teflon caps.

It's been an arduous road, to be sure, and until this last weekend, I was still pretty sure I was going to sell the CT-5 and keep my Premier 17.

But, I got back Saturday from our American Thanksgiving holiday at my sister's place and spent the rest of the day listening to music. On a lark, I plugged the CT-5 back in to the system, and that night while listening, the CT-5 just exploded.

Into a markedly better sounding preamp, that is. Something kind of just "snapped" so to speak, and the CT-5 just exploded into a veritable "wall of sound"; it starting sounding much fuller, richer, weightier, dynamic, with gorgeous decay, inner detail, etc. as well as having it's much faster transient response, detail, transparency, that it's had all along. I remember exactly when it happened, I was listening to an LP, and it was like a switch had just been thrown, bang! Gorgeous-sounding preamp, just like that.

Additionally, some of this is due, in part, and strangely enough I think, to the KT-120 power tubes in the LP70S; they seem to have created a pretty wonderful synergy with the CT-5.

I've done a lot of listening to it with the Rega P5 and Shelter MC cartridge, and the combination of these three, the CT-5, KT-120s in the LP70S, and the P5/Shelter have had literally had me shaking my head in disbelief at times.

I've been listening to it for the last three days, and while I still have some trouble believing it, I have to truthfully say the CT-5 now sounds bloody fantastic.
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