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| Preamps w/HT BYPASS that works when preamp is OFF. "can't see how tube gear does it unless it is just a straight wire across the in to output...."That's pretty much how Supratek does it. A wire from the HT inputs to the HT bypass toggle, to the output. The tube output goes to the other pole of the... | |
| supratek HT bypass question I own a Supratek Chenin and the answer is - no problem.I actually use the HT switch as my mute switch, and have disconnected the "mute" switch as it is redundant if you have the HT option, and a simpler signal path is always better. | |
| Speakers for Rock Music Zu Speakers rock. Loud and very efficient.Also Pioneer HPM series are excellent rock speakers - should be, they were designed by a refugee from JBL! | |
| Whats the consensus on Zu's loudspeaker cables? I upgraded from Zu Julian to Ibis and never looked back. The IBIS are incredibly detailed without being harsh. Look for them used, you can get them for far less than retail, and what can wear out on a cable? Look at them instead as pre-broken in... | |
| Class-D or switching amps, any opinions on?? Love my Class D Gilmore Raptor monos. Clean and clear, with gobs of power and a sound that is smoother than I could have imagined. 93% efficient as well! They use huge toroidal power transformers and weigh 37lbs each, a lot of weight for class D a... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil "Of course digital can not generate this "treble air"."Sure it can. Try upsampling.My Zero One Mercury CD/HD player has selectable oversampling and upsampling from 44kHz to 196KHz. I find that the oversampling modes (even multiples of 44KHz such a... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil No way I can fit a VSF into the EQ/buffer amp. It is very small and the 10uF of Mundorfs only fit because I am using a cascade of 6.8uF, 3.3uF and 0.33uF (see picture in link). I need 10uF to reach a low frequency -3dB point of 2Hz with my amp.RSI... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Actually, I'm now running the CAST in my preamp and a combination of Mundorf Supreme and Supreme Silver/oil in the following low frequency equalizer/buffer. I find that when I connect the preamp directly I get more of the CAST sound (natural, quie... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Well, Duelund, I'd like to skip the equalizer, but the speakers were designed to use it, so I'm working to make the equalizer the best it can be. The output caps are 220uF aluminum electrolytic bypassed with 3.3uF metallized PP, bypassed with 0.01... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil I just finished listening for 4 hours or so, a large part of it Tom Waits. I really think I like the CAST in the preamp and Supreme/Audiocap Theta in the equalizer better than the CAST in the preamp alone. Tom's unmistakeable voice just has a litt... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil If you're interested in why small value bypass caps work, check out this link. Check out the scope traces that clearly show how bypassing (and/or DC biasing - but that's another story) reduces hysteresis (straight line = good, anything else = bad)... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Here's a little trick I found for improving the sound of the Mundorf Supremes in an equalizer I'm using. I love the tonal balance of the Duelunds in my preamp, and I wanted to see what would happen when I put the low-frequency equalizer that comes... | |
| Class D amps,bang for your buck ones Love my Gilmore Raptor monoblocks. Extremely powerful, clean and neutral. Not cheap, though at $5K per pair. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Yes, those were the regular Supremes, which I considered a big improvement over the stock Auricaps. I didn't notice the high-frequency emphasis until after I heard the Duelunds in there; they had a much fuller sound, especially in the lower regist... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil I have just finished running the Supratek preamp for 4 straight days to get 100 hours break-in on the 200VAC Cu CAST caps. That was also a nice check on my other modifications: the constant current source on the output tubes, the new wiring and tu... |