atmasphere
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| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp Do the tariffs affect the used markets as well? I'm thinking yes but not sure. @dz13 Yes. Think of it in terms of shortages. This will push the used market up as new prices go up as well. Its a manufactured inflation. We make our boards he... | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? how do you choose cartridge that your arm will track perfectly ? @inna Good tonearms are a trick! You'll want to use a calculator like this one. A good arm will have absolutely no slop between the cartridge mount and the base of the arm. Its... | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? @inna @rauliruegas and @lewm both make good points. I have two more to offer that are in the same vein: 1) the ability of the arm to properly track the cartridge is far more important than what cartridge you have. 2) there is something called t... | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? Yeah, that's interesting what tube power supply did there. I have a hypothesis - tubes are just superior devices, whatever you do with them, if you know what you do. @inna knowing what to do with the devices is far more important than what devi... | |
| Calculation verification please I always thought loading was to dampen the stylus against any 'ringing' which may occur... @quincy Nope! Especially with LOMC cartridges, which have a very high 'Q' factor in their coils (so as to minimize mass) the result is that the peak I me... | |
| From Audio Note AN/J-D to where? @apollinaire You might consider the DeVore Fidelity O96 which is very easy to drive with lower powered tube amps but has wider bandwidth. | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp @donsachs +1 | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? @hilde45 That link doesn't seem to work. | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? @hilde45 Excellent! If you change a component in your system and then you run into a buzz, this can be one of the causes. But in your case its not happening so no worries | |
| Calculation verification please @sksos1 The cartridge won't care about the 375 Ohm load. It won't care about 30 Ohms either. Loads like that are never for the cartridge's benefit; they are to eliminate RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) that LOMC cartridges tend to generate. Th... | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp @lynn_olson +1 The tariffs will be doing no-one any good at all; just shortages, inflation and ill-will. | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? @hilde45 Nice to hear you hare having success! I prefer the JJ EL84s. You can get matched pairs at CE Distribution They have a Psvane tube that looks interesting too. If the power cord is grounded, sometimes you can run into a buzz problem (grou... | |
| More on XLR vs RCA considerations? I've never heard of a single ended triode preamp, but maybe that's just something else I've never known about until now? @immatthewj Most tube preamps are single-ended and triode. Its the rare one that isn't! Since my preamp and amp are sing... | |
| Cleaning amp/preamp If you have a board contaminated with oil a car wash (the kind where you use a pressure wash and do the cleaning yourself) can be a good move. I've had to do this a couple of times when customers put weird 'contact enhancers' on their tube sockets... | |
| Can you do anything to make power tubes last longer ? If you’re talking about the US, you are mistaken @atmasphere. Nominal voltage in the US is 120VAC ±5 percent, so anything between 114VAC and 126VAC is normal. That is established by ANSI C84.1 standard. @cleeds I stand corrected. However if t... |