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| Preamp comparison - Rogue Perseus and ARC LS25 MKII The LS25 MK II uses 6H30 tubes, there isn't a lot of options as far as tube rolling. I use 6H30-DR tubes in mine but these have gotten hard to find and are big $$. | |
| ODAM capacitors. @lous My board uses the 6922/6DJ8 tubes and I'm using NOS Siemens tubes. I didn't know there was an option for boards. Don helped me out with some noise issues I was having in 1 channel along with giving me some tweeks to do..such as replacing ... | |
| ODAM capacitors. I used them on my Tubes4Hifi PH-16 phono preamp. Very long burn in but worth it. | |
| How do you arrange the order of your records? Alphabetical by genre then roughly by release date. | |
| VPI Fatboys versus others in its' tonearm weight class. The wire in your new tonearm will have a break in period which may take a while. It's my understanding Lyra cartridges take somewhere between 50 - 100 hours to settle in. | |
| Is there any one piece of vintage gear you most wished you owned? A mint pair of Dunlavy SC - V speakers in cherry. | |
| Advice on setting VTA millercarbon pretty much nailed it. I also start with dropping the tonearm a few millimeters and start from there the sound will be very 2D and "flat " sounding. When you get near the right height the sound will become more 3D having depth to the... | |
| SUT vs. Phono preamp terry9Have you tried the Lundahl SUT wound with the Cardas wire?Thanks,Scott | |
| Jupiter Caps in tube preamp application Jim,I noticed an increase in bass as well with the Jupiter caps when I put them in my amp. I would give them a couple hundred hours to settle in although they do sound pretty good when first installed.Scott | |
| Jupiter Caps in tube preamp application Jim,I would think that as long as the caps are not directly adjacent to the tubes you should be ok.FWIW I use the Jupiter copper foils as the interstage coupling caps in my ARC VT100 power amp I do have them mounted on the backside of the PCB oppo... | |
| Best place to service vintage Audio Reference amps You can check with Audio Research and see if they have any authorized repair shops near you. | |
| Measuring turntable speed I use the KAB speed strobe. | |
| Audio Research VT100 MK1 and LS15 HELP!!! kentrent,When using the Mac do you have the tone controls set flat or are you boosting the bass??If you are boosting the bass try it with the tone controls set flat and compare that to the ARC. | |
| Audioquest question Hifman5,Google Audioquest Evergreen interconnect and you will see what the OP is talking about. The cable goes from 2 ends to 1 cable.Scott | |
| ARC ls 25 mkii cd/dac input too hot? Have you tried adjusting the gain on your preamp? There are 3 different settings per input. |