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| What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed Frogman, thanks very much for the kind comments, which are particularly appreciated as my perception has been that you have one of the best combinations of musical background and audiophile experience extant.Geoff, please note that the post which ... | |
| Information re: rolling 7AF7 tube for 6SN7 According to an older GE tube manual I have, the 7AF7 and the 6SN7 have very different pin connections for their internal elements. Therefore you would have to either use some sort of appropriately wired socket adapter, or rewire the connections o... | |
| What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed 05-14-14: FrogmanIf we are willing to concede that the tiny impact of "extraneous variables" like changes in contact integrity may be audible and may explain the experience of the believers; if the sound of music is that vulnerable to the effects ... | |
| What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed 05-13-14: GeoffkaitAl, hi, yes that's exactly what I mean, that Joe made the statement, not HiFi Tuning or Isoclean.To be precise, it was not Joe who made the statement, it was the paper he referenced.Regards,-- Al | |
| What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed Thanks, Joe. It so happens that I had provided my comments regarding that paper in another fuse-related thread, about two years ago. Best regards,-- Al | |
| What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed Geoff, I have not asserted that the fuse manufacturers assert that their fuses should be oriented in the direction of "current flow." As you say, that might simply be something that has been "repeated a thousand times on the internet," though not ... | |
| Sheffield Lab I agree with Mofi, notwithstanding the caveat I stated earlier about the sonics of the Leinsdorf recordings (which despite that caveat are perhaps unequaled among classical recordings in several important positive respects, as I indicated).It woul... | |
| What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed 05-13-14: Joe_appiertoIs it possible the fuse is constructed in such a way that it performs better one way than the other.That of course goes to the heart of the debate, Joe. From a technical standpoint I cannot envision any mechanism by which tha... | |
| What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed I took a look at the article Joe referred to. On the surface it appears reasonably credible, and to have been written by a technically astute person. However, I do question several things:1)The noise components in question are so low in level (on ... | |
| Sheffield Lab I have about a half dozen of them, purchased back in the day, and they are indeed sonic "tours de force."The one caveat I would cite, though, is that the Leinsdorf/LA Philharmonic classical recordings, while utterly spectacular and perhaps unparal... | |
| What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed 05-11-14: GeoffkaitAl, I realize this next series of comments is beyond the scope of this discussion but I'd thought I'd throw it out there anyway, perhaps to see what you think....Geoff, sounds like a sort of audio-related counterpart to feng shu... | |
| Help diagnose the kind of power treatment needed Thanks very much for the nice words, Lewinski. Yes, I would think that researching and/or asking about what power conditioning approaches are used by others having similar equipment could very well help shift the odds of success in your favor. I'm... | |
| What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed Thanks, Geoff. I have no idea, though, what the answers might be to your questions. All I can say is that it seems conceivable that a magnetic field could affect the signal, although not necessarily to an audible degree.Regards,-- Al | |
| Help diagnose the kind of power treatment needed I understand the reason some people prefer regeneration, others prefer filtration, others balanced transformers, etc is because the way in which the AC is filthy at different locations varies. And also because the sensitivity of different componen... | |
| 4 speakers, 2 channel amp I agree with Mofi and Elizabeth. I would add that putting one speaker on each channel on the 4 ohm tap and the other on the 8 ohm tap will actually draw more current and power from the amp, and be more stressful on the amp, then putting both of th... |