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Accessories

Grado SR-225 Headphones

Grado Sr-225 Headphones

The most musical and natural headphones we have heard at a rational price. One of our clients tells us they sound the way B&W 801 speakers would sound if the B&Ws were in a perfect room.

We have taken the most cost effective model with drivers carefully matched to 0.05% and priced it close to the least expensive to provide you unmatched AVA value. If you want great headphones, great value, and a fair price, the Grado SR-225 headphones will make you happy.

Longhorn Grado Phono Cartridge

Longhorn Grado Phono Cartridge

Our famous internally damped and externally stabilized phono cartridge starts with specially culled bodies and styli from the Grado Green series. We then internally damp the coils to eliminate microphonics, damp the suspension to eliminate mechanical resonances, and add our Longhorn stabilizer bar across the face of the body to provide a high polar moment of inertia against torsional vibration. Our engineering makes the cartridge much more dynamic sounding, with excellent broad band musical response and superior imaging. You get a super premium hand built high output cartridge at an economy price.

TOSLINK Adaptor

Audio Authority 977R TOSLINK Adaptor

For users with optical TOSLINK digital outputs who need to convert them to 75 V coax (as needed with our OmegaStar DAC and other digital audio equipment) we offer the Audio Authority 977R adaptor. The unit comes complete supplied with their matching 805-002 power pack and their 801-047 two foot optical cable.

 

DeoxiT D5 Contact Cleaner

What we use in house for cleaning selector switches, rocker switches, and other contacts. If you live in a corrosive environment, such as near salt water, you may want to clean your contacts regularly to prevent drop-outs and problems. DeoxIT works great to clean up drop-out troubles in older Dyna preamplifiers.

 

Replacement Tubes

Sure, you could get pig-in-a-poke tubes for less elsewhere, and then you’ll have the fun of matching and evaluating them. Or you could hope that you don’t notice the difference between channels or the background noise.

Keep your equipment operating at peak performance by getting high-quality tubes. We take the time to carefully evaluate all vacuum tubes in-circuit, selecting for low noise, low microphonics, and high gain. Pairs of tubes are further matched for balanced behavior in circuit.

 
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