Icon ST40III and the PS1 Phono Stage back home, a long old drive to Leicester . . . never used to worry, I must be getting old.
Got in about 6 o'clock, powered up by 6.20 . . . needs to warm up . . . ??? nah, got to listen ain't I, but dont expect to much :? I put on 'the Well' by Jennifer Warnes, it was Spotify, Hazel and I sat there cuppa in hand spell bound, the dynamics were something else. So got a CD out, Pavarotti, Kennedy, Dance Macabre . . . Moved on to Vinyl, Jennifer Warnes, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, on the Proprius label; 'Flaglarna Och Kallorna' (Pipe organ in a Danish Church, I think?)
By the time we were at the Pipe organ, the sound had sweetened, flowing like honey, width, height, depth, detail, worth every penny of the cash I paid for the two amps to be upgraded. So, only 2 hours of listening, Dave Shaw suggested the caps will run in a bit.
I came away with some new valves, one especially is a bit special, no longer available, I had to twist his arm a bit to let me have one from his dwindling stock rolling, rolling, rolling . . . again.
More perhaps, when I've tried the new valves and the caps have settle in . . . Anyone who has an Icon valve amp or is thinking about getting one look seriously at the Jensen Capacitor upgrade.
CJSF
Got in about 6 o'clock, powered up by 6.20 . . . needs to warm up . . . ??? nah, got to listen ain't I, but dont expect to much :? I put on 'the Well' by Jennifer Warnes, it was Spotify, Hazel and I sat there cuppa in hand spell bound, the dynamics were something else. So got a CD out, Pavarotti, Kennedy, Dance Macabre . . . Moved on to Vinyl, Jennifer Warnes, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, on the Proprius label; 'Flaglarna Och Kallorna' (Pipe organ in a Danish Church, I think?)
By the time we were at the Pipe organ, the sound had sweetened, flowing like honey, width, height, depth, detail, worth every penny of the cash I paid for the two amps to be upgraded. So, only 2 hours of listening, Dave Shaw suggested the caps will run in a bit.
I came away with some new valves, one especially is a bit special, no longer available, I had to twist his arm a bit to let me have one from his dwindling stock rolling, rolling, rolling . . . again.
More perhaps, when I've tried the new valves and the caps have settle in . . . Anyone who has an Icon valve amp or is thinking about getting one look seriously at the Jensen Capacitor upgrade.
CJSF