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| Elrog 300B vs Takatsuki 300B tubes Hi Charles,My only knowledge of the 300B operating parameters in my VAC Renaissance 70/70MkIII consists of the values Raquel provided in the thread I quoted from earlier. In which he said that the plate-to-cathode voltage is approximately 430 volt... | |
| Recommendations for a Analog to Digital Converter An alternative you might want to consider to purchasing a stand-alone audiophile-oriented ADC is to purchase a professional digital recorder that records to flash memory cards. You would then transfer the digitized files to whatever computer or ot... | |
| Elrog 300B vs Takatsuki 300B tubes Excellent info, Joe (& George). That all seems very comfortable relative to the specified "limiting operating conditions for safe operation" of the Elrog tube. (79V/1.025K = 77 ma). And the plate dissipation which can be calculated from those ... | |
| Passive attenuator impedance question 07-06-15: DavehrabThe IC from your passive attenuator should be very low in capacitance and as short as possible to keep from rolling off the highs ... Al can expound on thisThanks, Dave. Good point, which is certainly often a major consideration ... | |
| A-B testing of cables I'd expect that you'll be receiving a variety of responses, including assertions that your system and/or your ears and those of the other listeners aren't "resolving enough," the recordings weren't good enough, the y-adapters and/or the doubled ca... | |
| Passive attenuator impedance question Regarding "bit stripping," I would not extrapolate experience with Wadia models to models from other manufacturers, and perhaps even between different Wadia models.The manual for the Wadia 121 states as follows:Does the Wadia Volume Control compro... | |
| Planars/ Electrostats benefits over box speakers? 07-05-15: CerrotWhen my system isn't knocking my sox off, I check the phase and sure enough, house keeper cleaned the buttons on the remote again. ts like a speaker is wired backwards (lol). Sucks the life out of the presentation. Presumably the s... | |
| Passive attenuator impedance question Your analysis is well done! And accurate to a very close approximation.The DAC will see a load impedance of 9K + (1K in parallel with 100K), which is extremely close to 10K.The amp will see a source impedance (the impedance seen "looking back" fro... | |
| Short speaker cable recommendation While I agree that shorter speaker cables may not always sound better, certainly from the standpoint of subjective preference, I would add that nearly all speaker cable EFFECTS are proportional to length, and therefore DIFFERENCES between speaker ... | |
| Bad news for audiophiles? 07-03-15: Onhwy61The retail cost of a bottle of wine is closely tied to the market value of real estate where the wine is produced. Expensive vineyards produce expensive wines.I'd expect the converse to often be true as well. A property which prod... | |
| Is DEQX a game changer? Interim update: The plan I previously mentioned to re-measure my speakers has been delayed a bit, in part because last week a sudden and particularly violent thunderstorm resulted in damage to the power supply of my HDP-5. But to make a short stor... | |
| Bad news for audiophiles? While I have no doubt that expectation bias can often be of significance when it comes to both wine and audio, did anyone notice the markings on the vertical axis of the graph shown at the link Geoff provided in the OP? That axis representing "sig... | |
| overwhelmed by record rituals Hi Margot,I should have been more clear, but what I meant by not performing the last release on the record is that after the trigger is squeezed for the third and last time at each of the three locations, I then move the gun completely away from t... | |
| overwhelmed by record rituals Regarding LAST Record Preservation Treatment, I used it for a brief time back in the 1980s. I eventually abandoned it because I found that if I applied it to a record that was not scrupulously clean (I didn't have a record cleaning machine at that... | |
| High value, high efficiency speakers for SET amps Charles,A question for you that I'm genuinely curious about, which relates to this discussion. A while back you indicated that you planned to order Chesky's CD remastering of the 1962 performance of Dvorak's New World Symphony, Jascha Horenstein c... |