alexberger
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| Jantzen Wax Coil or Mundorf M-Coil CFC Are Jantzen Wax Coil inductors the best solution for mid-bass crossover? How do they compared to Solen Hepta Litz Inductors? How do they compared to vintage iron core inductors? | |
| How does solo piano help you evaluate audio gear? I agree. Piano reproduction is very difficult task for audio system. Especially for turntables and speakers. I had a not cheap Nottingham Spacedeck turntable that was good for vocal, violin and orchestra BUT horrible for piano and pipe organ rep... | |
| Am I a hopeless audio snob? I hate this "golden toilet look" audio design. For me it is like trade off between "golden toilet look" vs sound quality. Turntable should look like turntable, speakers like boxes and so on. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @noromance Thank you. I just built a new crossover based on N-1500 schematics with modern good quality PIO capacitors and Duelund resistors. I just used inductors from the old original crossover. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Ellington Jazz Party - Malletoba Spank - Analogue Productions | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Oscar Peterson - Night Train | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Gerry Mulligan - Night Light - Prelude in E Minor - DDR Pressing | |
| Use of a super tweeter worth the investement ? There are two types of super tweeter implementations. 1. In audible spectrum from 11-13KHz 2. Ultrasound 20KHz and up. I don't have experience with Ultrasound implementation. But people say it works. The first one is needed when speakers are n... | |
| Advice needed on power cables, wall warts, conditioning, electrical outlet Hi @cakyol , For tube amplifiers that don't need a lot of power toroid power transformer is not the best solution. Most of tube amplifiers (including most expensive) don't use toroid power transformer. Toroidal power transformers are used only ... | |
| Advice needed on power cables, wall warts, conditioning, electrical outlet Hi @terry9 , I think it is a function of power consumption. Typical tube amp power consumption is 100-300 watt. So, for this parameters EI core transformer can be better. External electromagnetic field is less issue for smaller power transformer... | |
| Advice needed on power cables, wall warts, conditioning, electrical outlet Hi @terry9 , At least for tube amplifiers all best producers: Tango, Tamura, Kondo, Audio Note, Hashimoto, Lundahl don't make toroidal power transformers. In the tubes world toroidal power transformers are for cheap solutions. I don't familiar... | |
| Advice needed on power cables, wall warts, conditioning, electrical outlet Toroidal transformers are the worst for amplifier power supply. I thing for isolation transformers should be the same. | |
| JBL L36 JBL from 60-70x are great speakers. But according to my experience with Altec 604E from 60x, crossover parts update makes a huge difference. Despite my speakers sounding good with old original crossovers, the changing of capacitors and variable r... | |
| SET Shootout China VS The USA Hi @mozartfan , Japanese SET audiophiles adore US made speakers like Altec and WE and German Klangfilm speakers. Jean Hiraga used Altec A7, A5 with crossovers designed by himself. Another Japanese legend - Sakuma used 300B amplifiers and Briti... | |
| 2019 300B tubes that are worth the money? I have TJ mesh plates 300B. Very nice tubes. Good value for money. I also have EML 300B Mesh plates that is noticeably better especially in term of refining. My amplifier has only ~6 Watt output, so mesh plate 300B power rating works. Does anybo... |