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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    With 96db/watt/meter speakers do they reveal any hum?   I was very interested in listening to the Orangutang's before I bought my Thrax lyres, but was not to be. I am happy with the Thrax but still wonder what the sound is like with the orangutang. You don't by chance live anywhere near...
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    I drive a pair of Thrax Lyra loudspeakers and they sound mighty nice too. Though they were designed to handle 20-250 watts, their 90db/watt/meter sensitivity makes they fine with the little CS-300Xs. Bit costly though, and not real well known yet.  
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    I am sure that you tried NOS (or vintage tubes) and not the Russian remakes, but for the sake of our viewers out there who may not know we should point out that the Leben-CS300Xs (s for Sovtek) comes with Russian-made Sovtek valves in it, and all the new Mullards and Genalex valves available...
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    Good luck with your sale, I hope your solid state amplifier chosen over the Leben gives you years of pleasurable listening. 
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    Well deuter,    I do agree that I have heard better, but not at that price and now not available in the European Union. Shindo Masetto pre-amplifier, £10,000 + did sound better I have to admit. At that price it should. No headphone output, and now no longer available in the European Union...
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

          It is too bad that you have to sell your Leben CS300XS (Stereophile class A, they say nothing better) integrated amplifier. If properly set up they do sound rather good. If it is because of other expenses of life then I understand, but if you are not happy with the sound, consider rolling...
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    I have just purchased a pair of speakers that really do well with this Leben CS300Xs integrated amplifier. I just purchased a pair of Thrax Lyra loudspeakers on stands, for albeit more than the rest of my hi fi cost, but the combination is great.    I have a Loricraft Gerrard 301 with SME 3009...
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    Well, it affects my speakers. I have dipoles with very efficient 8ohm speaker for midrange and treble and a pair of less sensitive 4 ohm speakers wired in parallel for the bass. The crossover has a separate bass amplifier to match to the more sensitive midrange speaker but I bypassed that and...
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    Ardilla, what about the local mains power conditions? Would a mains conditioner, filter, with everything plugged in to it help, or cause the hum? In other words, is the grounds of each device looping with the return on the RCA cables causing a ground loop? Do others with a history of a hum with...
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    Dear Mr Xenophon, I agree with you, that if all you want is perfect signal reproduction...then the SS amp is more accurate. And as nearly all signals today are compressed, boosted, digitally enhanced one-dimentional contrived noise that is in no way real to life and contains absolutely no...
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    My Leben hums with very sensitive speakers that amplify the bass so that the hum is exaggerated. Is there anyone out there who has heard a hum through speakers that finds it not there with LCD3s? In other words, would I be better off buying LCD3 headphones for the amp, or selling it and...
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    Because the sound changed when the RCA plug was manipulated then surely the fault lies there, a cold solder joint my best bet. It isn't difficult to re-solder same, if not experienced with such then the repair shop best, but if you heat the metal till hot enough to melt the solder, without...
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    Quote: Or it was a cold solder joint, increased resistance caused a lot of heat which burned out the resistor.
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    Quote: All electronics vibrate some, especially transformers. That is why some transformers are "potted" (resin and steel casing to solidify and increase mass), others (like those in the Leben) are not. These run cooler but might vibrate a bit so gel feet on the bottom seems reasonable to...
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    Regarding Fuses,   Stereophile seems to think highly of the Audio Magic Nano-Liquid Premium Fuses, see: www.audio-magic.com/Prod-NanoFuse.html Anyone try that one?   Mark
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    Quote: My opinion only, If the amplifier and everything else in the chain is already warmed up, then play a tract on your best LP or CD, then turn off the power at the source, open the fuse holder, switch fuse, close fuse holder, turn power back on, wait only 30 seconds to get to same...
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    Quote: I appreciate your honesty.   The listening does have to be done in the same unit, same everything except the fuse. The change doesn't require "warm up" time really, as if the fuse warms up it breaks, that's it's function. The problem with side-by-side comparisons is that you...
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    So how does it sound? Does that expensive little fuse make that much of a difference? I would love to hear from someone who let some non-audiophile friends or family listen to a song on the leben before change, then immediately after change and give their impressions. In the past I had read...
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    I drive BD-Design speakers with my Leben CS300Xs and they play very well. Mine are not the usual horn-loaded speakers that Bert Doppenberg at BD Design sells, but a variation of an open baffle design he referred to as Quasar II. His horns are very efficient and the bass is sub-amped so the Leben...
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    Quote: For what it's worth, I sold my First Watt F3 to buy a Leben CS300Xs and have been much happier with the sound of the Leben than I was with the First Watt. I drove the First Watt with an Audiable Illusions Mod 3A pre-amp which may (or not) contribute to the difference. I have very...
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    I am slightly cynical about a fuse making all that much difference, but if that is what you are hearing I may take a chance myself. If the Furutech Large, Slow, 2Amp fuse works that well in the CS300XS, would a Furutech Large, Slow, 1.5A fuse help the sound of the Leben RS-30EQ phono...
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    Loricraft Garrard 301

    Loricraft own the Garrard name and factory bits and restore Garrard 301s and 401s to their former glorry then mount them on a plinth using rubber rings in between screw and chasis that are hand tight only, then the plinth itself rides upon four low bounce squash balls within a wooden base. Works...
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    matching cartridge and tonearm compliance

    Quote: Thanks, this is a good start. I will plug in my assumed values on the vinylengine tool as well and see whats what.
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    matching cartridge and tonearm compliance

    Hoping some expert out there could help me with a knowledge deficit. How does one determine what the compliance of a particular cartridge is, and likewise a particular tonearm. What is the process.   I once added to a discussion on a Nagaoka MM cartridge that I owned and thought better than...
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    The Leben CS300XS Thread

    Quote: I've read good things about these valves too. I have also heard people say that the new versions of this tube "Genalex-Gold Lion ECC83/B759" sound good too, so I bought a quad matched set and replaced the Sovtek versions that came with the CS300Xs (s for Sovtek) with the new Genalex...
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