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| SET amplifier recommendation With SETs, the bigger the amp the less bandwidth. 300b is about as powerful as an SET can get and still be considered ’hifi’ as far as bandwidth goes. That’s an interesting point, Ralph, which I presume derives mainly from the bandwidth limitatio... | |
| SET amplifier recommendation The B&W speakers are voiced for SS amplification and are never going to sound their best with tube amplification; possibly with the exception of a pair of Atma-Sphere OTL monoblocks. My recommendation is to stay with SS or, if the OP really wa... | |
| Favorite Collaborations The Beatles & Eric Clapton in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." Regards,-- Al | |
| XLR cable splitter? After looking at the photo of the Yiggy’s internal printed circuit board at the Schiit website I think it is very likely that the two RCA outputs are simply wired together, and using both of those outputs would therefore be not much different than... | |
| CODA Continum 8 Imput Impeadence The outputs of the Allnic L-1500 are transformer coupled, and are described in its manual as having an output impedance that remains essentially constant (at 150 ohms) across the entire audible frequency range. So it should be fine driving 10K.It ... | |
| Has anyboidy had any experience with an 833-A single-ended triode amplifier? @roberjerman, re pictures, check out his system description thread.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Has anyboidy had any experience with an 833-A single-ended triode amplifier? Definitely one of the more exotic builds I’ve ever seen hereabouts, to put it mildly. Congratulations!A couple of things I’m wondering:1) Looking at the curves shown on page 10 of this 833-A datasheet the performance of the tube with 1000 volts on... | |
| Has anyone tried these stunning new CPT power cord? Bill (Grannyring), keep in mind that many and probably most power amps provide unregulated DC voltages to their output stages, and in many cases to their small signal stages as well. Also, in the case of some tube power amps filament voltages are ... | |
| Help ! At this stage I have no idea how the drive was formatted but it worked When that drive is connected to a Windows 10 computer just open the Windows File Manager, select "This PC" on the left if it isn’t already selected, then right-click on the ic... | |
| Help ! @Uberwaltz, thanks for the clarification. I was misinterpreting that the thumb drive you referred to was connected to the Vault, for copying to, rather than to the Ayre, for playback.I don’t know, of course, if the USB HDD you connected to the Vau... | |
| Help ! @Uberwaltz, thanks for providing that info. And I made a USB thumb drive with selected albums from it to play on my Ayre EX8 direct from one of its USB ports which also works just fine. I wouldn't count on that, though, as indicating that copy... | |
| Help ! big_greg 7-23-2019 From what I’ve read, it is possible to backup to an external hard drive, however it appears the music is stored in a proprietary format:"The ext4 storage format is the same format that the Vault uses to store your data. It will ... | |
| Help ! big_greg 7-23-2019 @onhwy61 What is this "legal issue" you mentioned? I think you may have gotten some bad information. The copyright-related legal issue Onhwy61 correctly referred to, that may and arguably will come into play if CDs are copied t... | |
| PASS LABS X150.8 AMP to McIntosh MC462? @wolf_garcia, no, a fan won't reduce the amount of heat the amp puts into the room. It will keep the amp itself cooler (or at least parts of it), by blowing some of the heat away from it. But the amount of heat it puts into the room will still... | |
| Help wanted re tube I would not consider the 12AX7 to be a long-term solution. In addition to the gain difference, various other parameters are vastly different than the parameters of the 6829, including "plate resistance" and "transconductance." Also, the maximum po... |