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| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Good suggestions by Charles, as usual. A couple of caveats, though, regarding the First Watt F6 and F7.Their gain is particularly low for a power amplifier, at only 14 db. That will be problematic in some applications, especially if vinyl sources ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Wolf_Garcia 3-29-2017I’ve met Dennis Had who is a former and current world class designer, and a brilliant no nonsense guy who is fun to talk to and seems to know more than the average forum knucklehead could ever understand about circuits and sou... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Geoffkait 3-28-2017 ... most or almost all observable phenomena CAN be explained by current scientific laws or facts. What might be difficult for one person to explain might be a snap for someone else. +1. A good audio-related example of that can ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... That was certainly a talented and very special cast on SNL in the days when Belushi was there. Gilda was my favorite, although they were all great.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Most Important, Unloved Cable... Azbrd and Dynaquest4, note that the effects (or at least the potential effects) that I described in my previous post have absolutely nothing to do with proper or improper communication of 1s and 0s.May I suggest a simple experiment that you may fi... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Charles1dad 3-27-2017 Yes my expectation would be that a 119.00 dollar product should be superior to the 9.00 dollar product or why else would you spend the extra 110.00. What I recognize is that you don’t know with any certainty until you actuall... | |
| Most Important, Unloved Cable... As an electrical engineer having extensive experience designing high speed digital, analog, A/D converter, and D/A converter circuits (not for audio), I don’t find the reported differences to be either surprising or mysterious. And I consider them... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Charles, you have been and are the solid and reasonable rock for this thread. As is the case in many a thread.George (Jetter), your 13 point summary (as amended) gets my nomination for best post of the month. Perhaps the year!Best regards,-- ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Mac48025, I have said on multiple occasions that I don’t doubt that a fuse can make a difference in many cases. With that opinion being based in large part on the many user experiences that have been reported here. Beyond that, my views were summa... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Thanks, Nonoise!Best regards,-- Al | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Nonoise 3-25-2017 I posted ’auxinput’s’ contribution from another thread earlier about how the signal is about 98% A/C voltage and no one has shot that down yet. Glossed over maybe, but not disputed. Taking that into consideration (at the very lea... | |
| Tekton Electron has been released Roxy54 3-24-2017Considering the high efficiency, how would the 4 ohm impedance affect the way they mate with low to medium power tube amps. I admit that I have no idea. Where are you Almarg? Hi John,I agree with the post by Charles just above.... | |
| Advice using electrostats with tube amp. Sounds good, Jim. Enjoy!Best regards,-- Al | |
| Advice using electrostats with tube amp. Jim (Broadstone), an impedance curve for the Ethos can be found on this page. My guess is that given the relatively small amount of energy that most music has in the top octave the 0.8 ohm impedance at the upper end of the spectrum won’t **in itse... | |
| If NOS pre or power tubes became unavailable altogether, what new tubes would you buy? I too have had excellent results with the Gold Lion reissue 12AX7 and 12AU7. This was in a Chinese-made EL34-based Paxthon VTA-160 amplifier I used several years ago.Regards,-- Al |