Quote:Posted by: Dana Posted on: Today at 11:08:56
The SEUFO84-25 is basically a SE84UFO with improved power delivery and better components. How close to the 25th anniversary edition would I get adding a STR to my existing SE84UFO?
Here is my conjecture. I went from (a pair of) UFOs to UFO25s. And my experience is the difference was largely increased transparency, detail and dynamics. It made the quality of the front end even more evident and important. I don't want to say the difference was small, but it wasn't huge. My UFOs sounded really good and I can definitely hear a lot of the UFO sound in the UFO25s, there is just more of what I liked about them. Note that my UFOs had all the anniversary mods, if yours don't then I would run, not walk, to get them done before spending any more money on your system.
Based on my reading of the thread, and my expectations, I don't think adding a STR to your UFO would get you "closer" to UFO25. I think in absolute terms it will be a much bigger change (depending on model and tubes) and in a direction that I could quote but you should read in the posts earlier in the thread if you haven't already. Without actually hearing a STR I might be temped to say that a UFO + STR is a better use of 3.5K$ than a UFO25, but that would be a massive conjecture on my part.