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My system/room is very resolving, gorgeous at micro detail, and with a very real sounding tonal and dynamic balance across the spectrum. Timbre is crazy good. Nuance is sweet. It can make me weep. It is seriously tuned basically for a live and real instruments in the room sound. So what happens here, is based on that.
For me, the CSP3 did not wipe out subtle micro information by any stretch of the imagination. It did mask it enough in my very revealing system for me to not like it though. And I did not notice this as an issue with my CSP3 with stock caps and with the Torii MkIII. It just changed the sound in a very pleasing CSP3 way. Adding the Jupiter caps made the CSP3 feel more resolving, but with the MKIV, the masking of micro info was too much for what I wanted.
I really can't figure it out altogether because I changed amps while the caps were changed on the CSP, but I will speculate.... I think part is that the MKIV with the reconstructive feedback on is very revealing of micro info, and without being hard or edgy. This let's the Tranquility and its brilliant ability with micro detail really sing. There is an amazing synergy between them.
And though they may not seem like it the way they are made, I think the Jupiters really do need burnin, perhaps lots of it. They sounded quite good in my Zstage at first, but just kept on getting better, finally not sounding like anything...just very good music, time being the only change.
I did not like the Jupiters more than the stock caps in the CSP3 at first...some gains, some losses by my tastes. But that has changed in stages. First it got more transparent, more limber and fresh. Then recently, I got a heightened dose of the subtle dynamic clarity and body it had with the stock caps, but with the more natural sound of the Jupiters.
Finally, I wonder if 6N1P are just not a good match with the Jupiters in the CSP3, especially if the system reveals all subtle information and you want to keep it that way. With the MKIII, I used them happily in the power position for a while with the stock caps, but they hobbled the sound in my system with the Jupiters and MKIV.
Once broken in, with the right tubes, the Jupitered CSP3 does however add something awesome that is CSP territory, for me, without sacrifice to subtle information, and I would be very surprised if the Tranquility reveals less micro information than the PWD MKII.
Subtle in some ways, but very present and musical, the CSP3 can bring body, weight, clarity, definition, space, and dynamics. And the Jupiters doing it with natural refinement, it was worth the effort and wait. I have been getting exceptional, transparent sound for quite a while, but the depth of the CSP thing has come out more lately with these particular Amperex 6922s. With the CSP sort of magic, and gain riding, I really like it. To be able to musically tune in more or less body, weight, and dynamics to balance the crazy range of recordings is a great tool.
That said, I agree with Lon that it depends on how you weigh things out and either way is good. For me, the MKIV needed riding less than the MKIII. I listened to the MKIV without pre quite happily for many months as I was learning its nature and tuning it into the system. Then for while, as I struggled to integrate the Jupitered CSP3, I was contemplating selling it, things were so good between the Tranquility and MKIV. I did have a hard time with it, but after it got sorted out, I am glad I took the time. Listening now, it is so beautiful.
Once again, this process has taught me that once a system/room gets really, really good, it gets harder to integrate new stuff to make it better. And the synergy of what is there defines what a new piece will do.
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