atmasphere
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| Doge 8 Clarity: 12AT7 replacement for phono stage I just received my Doge 8 Charity 2022 Special Edition. It has Brimar 6060 and TAD 7025 tubes I’m using the MC phono stage with a Rega Apheta 2. I also have a bad hiss. This is my first tube gear Iv got a lot of good info from this forum. Is it r... | |
| Humm from phono but not dc or aux ? Hey guys, would anything change if I connect phono pre to pre amp with balanced cables I do have that capability ? Quite possibly. The cartridge is a balanced source to start with- if you have a balanced input on the phono section you've got a ... | |
| Turntables thump when turning off? I was thinking it's probably not a fault of one of the tables. I have a VPI classic 3, a Rega RP 8 that is brand new and an old Dunlop Systemdek IIX and they all do it and with two different phono preamps and various amps and preamps. Now that... | |
| Humm from phono but not dc or aux ? Some cartridges are prone to humming. Grado has a history of this. @mijostyn To my understanding this has to do with the use of a Grado in a Rega turntable and its caused by the fact that Rega doesn't ground the motor. If you add a wire to grou... | |
| SET the best? All I was trying to say is that the 845 hasa good reputation for delivering the goods. My tech points in the 845 direction for what he feels will give me best bang. He also likes most other SET tubes. Liking a tube is very different from how ... | |
| Higher powered but efficient amp with the imaging of a Pass XA-25? @markmuse If I were in your situation, I would first talk to Duke at Audiokinesis and get a set of his Swarm subs. They would allow you to have proper bass anywhere in the room. The Swarm is 4 subs so as to break up standing waves that otherwise c... | |
| Higher powered but efficient amp with the imaging of a Pass XA-25? ...I had an XA-25 for a trial driving a pair of Spatial X5’s (97db efficiency). That combo produced imaging depth like I have never heard before or since. The Spatial is an excellent speaker and easy to drive. But since you have to keep the spe... | |
| SET the best? Speaking in very broad, generalized, terms, I tend to find pushpull amps to have a "tighter" more punchy sound than SET amps. But, too much of that quality and the sound seems a bit artificial or "mechanical" and less natural than the more relax... | |
| Turntables thump when turning off? .01uF HV ceramic cap across the switch. +1 @lewm @ejlif This is a common problem- if the 0.01uf 1000v disk cap across the switch fails, it will result in a thump or pop no matter where that switch is in the system and it will show up more ... | |
| A pitch too High! However, I did exactly that and was getting distortion. So I found that by adjusting the anti skate so that the needle stayed in the center of the laser disc and without drift, that this gave me distortion free results. Do not set your anti skate... | |
| Tonearm for Technics SP-15 my friend has a unit in a plinth with a dust-cover. it looks like OEM Technics to me, I could check. Grace arm is in a circular removable board, also looks OEM, with a long oval cutout for various lengths. removable arm board looks like this (s... | |
| Tube Vs. SS Preamps let’s diaggregate a little lesser/older tube gear provides rolled off treble little to no deep bass, poor bass damping enriched/expanded midrange and midbass lower sense of drive and rhythm and attack when needed improved imaging and sens... | |
| Tonearm for Technics SP-15 will the Victor 7082 fit SP15? Of course. You can use any arm because the SP-15 is designed without its own plinth, like the SP-10. | |
| SET the best? My 300B amp measures flat well below 30hz. To play the bottom octave properly you need bandwidth to 2Hz. This is because once the amp starts rolling off, it does so at 6dB/octave. When you have a slope like that it causes phase shift to be pres... | |
| Tube Preamps that work well with SS amps? Other than when there is an impedance mismatch between them, are there any other circumstances under which a tube preamp + SS amp combo will not work well? @twoleftears The main issue is probably how well the preamp does in the bass. This is a... |