albertporter
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| 8'or 12' speaker cable, any difference? With high performance speaker cables, to get a significant loss, it must double in length. Conversely, to get an improvement, it needs to be shortened to one half. This simple formula has been expressed to me by the chief designer at three differe... | |
| Wolcott amps The best tube amps? Snook2 On the Wolcott's output tubes, (EL34 s), I have a set of Seimens, Telefunkens and Teslas. The Wolcott's come stock with Sovtecs, so this group of possibilities is an excellent start. As far as the input tubes, (6922's), the Sovtecs are terr... | |
| Sand or shot for speaker stands? Bmp, I alternate. I pour shot, then sift just enough sand to fill voids that the pellets will not go into. Not every situation will lend itself to this way of addressing the problem, so I will give a lengthy description of a problem solver on a la... | |
| Wolcott amps The best tube amps? I will be burning in my set of Wolcott amps in the very near future, hopefully within two or three weeks. Having owned several high end tube amps, both SET and push pull, it will be interesting to see what the results are. | |
| PURIST AUDIO DESIGN I use only Purist Audio Design in my system, and I have tried most of the cable available (including many of the AC cables). In my experience, Purist is the quietest, most neutral, and lowest distortion cable available. It has near perfect tonal b... | |
| Sand or shot for speaker stands? All of the comments confirm my personal experience. I do mix sand with the #7 or #9 lead shot for fill. However, the type of sand makes a big difference. I find that silica sand, used for sandblasting is the best. The silica sand used for this pur... | |
| Dedicated line questions In response to the comments from Garfish, the ground hum problem is not necessarily related to whole house ground versus the stereo's dedicated ground. Hum as Garfish describes, is often the result of ground planes within the system "talking" to e... | |
| Dedicated line questions Greysquirrel, the reason for three ground rods, is that they are spread over approximately a ten foot area of earth in a large triangle configuration. If the ground potential is higher or lower due to the wetness/dryness of the earth in one partic... | |
| Dedicated line questions Greysquirrel, regarding your question about "star" and dedicated grounding, the way I got there, was to hire an electrical contractor who had done quite a lot of commercial work, so the wiring I asked for was not unusual, due to his experience wit... | |
| Tube Amp Kits does anyone still offer. Glass Audio, P.O. Box 878 Peterborough, NH. 03457 (FAX 603-924-9467), offers a bi monthly publication that has a "do it yourself" project in every issue!! In addition, (I just looked, since you ask) and saw ad's for amplifier kits for the followin... | |
| Intro to Tube Amplifiers Sound Valves made pre assembled and kits of 40 watt mono blocks that were very good sound, certainly in your price range and very reliable. The EL34 tubes they use as outputs are plentiful and inexpensive as well as easy to change the sound of by ... | |
| Sound of OTL Amps Bryceeboy, how about the new tube amps from Fanfare International? Have you heard them against the Atmasphere? | |
| Who still sells NOS Telefunken 6922's? I have four Telefunken 6922 that I bought from Kevin Deal. They are in original Telefunken boxes, gold pin, with Kevins test stickers. They have been run only long enough to prove they would not fail out of the box, then were put in my tube stock ... | |
| Speakers: all-time worst Cardinal, are you saying that Bose is "blow" the quality standards of those seeking music? I certainly agree! (Great story, thanks!) | |
| Tube Dampers - what's the story? The Audio Research dampers you guys like are the 3M. They do not melt on the tube. The tube dampers Otiscat speaks of, must have been another brand, probably made of sorbothane. The sorbothane not only melts and deforms as he describes, but is at ... |