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| Help with tube specs I don't know the answer, Harry, but I would caution that the voltages and current marked on the person's schematic may vary significantly depending on the characteristics of the particular type of 300B that is being used. Unless the person was kno... | |
| How do I use dedicated storage and iTunes? Re the original question, see this procedure at the Apple support site.That document pre-dates iTunes 11, btw, although I suspect that it remains applicable.Regards,-- Al | |
| How do I use dedicated storage and iTunes? Adding to my previous post, some of the smaller Oyen drives utilize SSD's, but not the 1 TB drive. As indicated at OyenDigital.com, the largest SSD they offer is 480 GB. And, per their website, that lists at $410 in its cheapest version!At Newegg.... | |
| How do I use dedicated storage and iTunes? For the record, a minor correction to something that was said above. The Oyen Digital 1TB external drive does not utilize an SSD (solid state drive). It utilizes a conventional 5400 rpm mechanical laptop hard drive, in an external enclosure.At thi... | |
| Cartridge gain overload - please explain Note: The schematic link provided in my previous post appears to work some of the time but not others, perhaps depending on whether it has been previously cached in the browser after being accessed from the main LS25 page. If the link doesn't work... | |
| Cartridge gain overload - please explain 01-18-13: DoverI think somebody is confused here.Using the balanced OUTPUT of the LS25 increases the gain by 6db.I presume you plug the phono stage into the INPUT, at least I hope so.There is nothing to suggest that using the balanced INPUT on the... | |
| Cartridge gain overload - please explain 01-18-13: LewmThere seems to be an underlying assumption that the Whest phono stage is a truly balanced device. It may have XLR input or output jacks, but I find no evidence anywhere to say it is balanced. For that matter, the same holds true for ... | |
| High Sensitivity Speakers that work best with SS 01-18-13: AtmasphereIf you are using Voltage Paradigm design rules, it may well be that the speaker's crossover points will not work properly with all tube amps even though the speaker has a flat impedance curve. From what I've seen/heard of the D... | |
| Took my Levinson amp in for repair Sorry to hear you are experiencing this situation. The facts stated, though, leave a lot of things unclear.They would be liable only if there is reason to believe that the damage was either caused by or worsened by their negligence or carelessness... | |
| High Sensitivity Speakers that work best with SS Hi Mapman,Interesting point by Ralph, which I haven't seen stated before.There seems to be a fairly wide consensus that Daedalus speakers will be compatible with pretty much any amplifier known to man, apart from some of the very low power SET's. ... | |
| On High Current Amps and Regenerators You might ask Simon for his thoughts on this Brick Wall surge protector/line filter. It is passive and transformerless, although it uses a series inductor. See this "how it works" page. A goodly number of A'goners use Brick Wall protectors, includ... | |
| Most sought audio gears The question is too general and too ambiguous to be answerable. But depending on how "most sought" is defined, a good case could be made for Western Electric speaker drivers, tubes, and tube amplifiers from the 1930's. As to why, because they are ... | |
| I don't like the sound of my system. Help please. Some things you might want to consider, before replacing components:If you haven't already done so, item one on your list should certainly be verifying that the Vandys are connected in phase with each another, as Mapman suggested.Next, is the ARC ... | |
| Cartridge gain overload - please explain I basically agree with you, Zd, with the slight qualification that if the overload is not occurring in the phono stage, but is occurring in the LS25 in circuitry that is ahead of the volume control, it is possible that a different preamp would not... | |
| Cartridge gain overload - please explain Thanks very much for the nice words, ActusReus.I can't offer any particularly definitive comments, though, because overload specs and/or measurements for the PS.30R don't seem to be available. In general, for a given cartridge and a given phono st... |