alexberger
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| High powered single end 300b recommendations There is some misunderstanding between amplifier power and speakers sensitivity. The combination of these two parameters plus listening room acoustic characteristics like the Critical Distance give the maximal listening volume. There is not direc... | |
| RIP Glenn Croft Hi @noromance , Thank you for the good words. I had a number of components that left good memories and even nostalgia: Croft preamp, McIntosh MC30 power amplifier, Spendor 2/3 speakers, Lenco 78 turntable. There were other components that I was... | |
| RIP Glenn Croft I had the Croft Super Micro preamp with wonderful phonostage. Very simple and affordable preamp that sounded wonderful with my McIntosh MC30 and Marantz 8b amplifiers and Spendor 2/3 and then Altec 604E speakers. Tried different affordable preampl... | |
| Classical Vinyl Series Here is Gexter Gordon "Go!" 1973 US resissu for comparison: | |
| Classical Vinyl Series | |
| Classical Vinyl Series | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? | |
| Acoustic Sounds Series | |
| Blue Note Tone Poet Series | |
| Classical Vinyl Series | |
| Four Hour Tube Amp Warm-Up All tube amplifiers sound OK after 30 minutes. But if you listen carefully sound is getting better during 2-3 hours. Especially it is true for not feedback circuits. I also paid attention that this difference gets bigger after I tweaked and improv... | |
| Four Hour Tube Amp Warm-Up My 300B SET amplifier also sounds it best after 3-4 warm-up hours. After 1.5-2 hours it sounds not bad but not as magical smooth and clear as after 3-4 hours. When I had transistor amplifier Plinius 8200 integrated it was always on. Without coup... | |
| When were the best tube amps made? Hi @larryi , What kind of power supply capacitors did Western Electric use in 59A amplifier? I'm not sure it was already the mass production of electrolytic capacitor then. So probably they used oil capacitors with paper and foil. This capacitors... |