Grant Fidelity P-307 Review.

[laatsch55]

What in God's name are those glowing things?????????
Why didn't somebody tell me not to turn the amp on till Mr. Grant had been on for awhile?

 

[Elite-ist]

That doesn't make for a positive opening remark for the review, Lee. How about a real review after warm-up? You are "totally tubeless" sometimes.

Nando.

 

[speakerman1]

Why what happened. It only takes minutes really. Some people let them on for hours before they put music to them. I usually turn it on then set the TT up to play. Did you roll the tubes?

Larry

 

[laatsch55]

Just a noob mistake. Had the Spec on and the cd player, turned on the Grant last, BIG MISTAKE Lesson 1 --- tubes make a lot of noise on startup!!!!

 

[speakerman1]

Yes a big mistake. LOL

Tubes are always first.

Larry

 

[laatsch55]

Glad we got that worked out. Now I'm in the market for a 50-75 watt tube amp for the 2" tractix horns !! Time to tri-amp the K-horns.

 

[speakerman1]

Well how does it sound? 50 to 75 watt tube is going to run you some bucks. Probably cheaper to get a tubed cdp. So you are using it as a buffer? When I first started I had a buffer I couldn't tell the difference it got sold fast.

Larry

 

[laatsch55]

Yeah, going from the CDP to the Grant to the Spec 2. Very nice.

 

[speakerman1]

Did you get that AA CDP yet? You would like my Shanling CDP.

Larry

 

[laatsch55]

Not yet. I did get notice it was mailed.

 

[speakerman1]

Did you take the covers off yet. I was always going to do it just never did. I would like to see the glow. If you use it for your TT I would swap tubes. I use to lose volume on my TT amps. Now that I have the Sovtec in it has made a difference that way. It just sounds better.

Larry

 

[Elite-ist]

Did you get that AA CDP yet? You would like my Shanling CDP.

Larry

I saw my first Shanling CDP at Innovative Audio last month. It didn't take long for it to sell.

Nando.

 

[laatsch55]

WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats Gorgeous.

 

[laatsch55]

Larry, got the cover and skirts off. Fixin to swap out the chinese tubers.

 

[speakerman1]

That is my Shanling. It makes sweet tapes.

Larry

 

[laatsch55]

Yours didn't look that pretty in your pics!! Nice machine.

 

[speakerman1]

Well I'm not edumacated enough to take good pics. I point and shoot. LOL It even looks better in the dark. The blue leds on the plastic is cool.

Larry

 

[speakerman1]

Well what do you think so far. Would you like me to look for tube amps for you? Do you want a straight tube or a hybrid? I have some places I can go to. To me I wouldn't buy any yet. I think you may try those mono-blocs that are coming. Try them 1st. You may be surprised. LOL

Larry

 

[laatsch55]

Yeah, I wasn't going to pull the trigger just yet, still want to try a mosfet amp too. Joe's about done reworking the board layout on G. Randy Sloans 400 watt mosfet. Joe said there was some things he could have done better on those. I was gonna raise the rail voltage to kick em up to 500, we'll see what Joe can do about that.

Anyway, I like thetubes going through the Midhorns on the K-Horns, Smooth, like babies butt.

 

[laatsch55]

Well, Mr. grant is a fine piece of gear. The noise floor seemed a bit much till I swapped tubes to the Sylvania's, the background hiss dropped a lot. Why?? Do certain brands of the same model tube vary that much.?