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| Speakers for a Large Room (20’x37’) One other option, sort of off the beaten path is the Classic Audio Reproductions line. We've done ballrooms with the Classic Audio Loudspeakers T-1 and T-3. With that room size using those speakers I'd recommend 100 watts if you plan to crank i... | |
| A pitch too High! Why do you guys want me to buy a new Grado stylus. I'm was not suggesting any such thing. I misread the situation and had thought you got a different cartridge and thus solved the problem. Re-reading I see now that it was gauge instead. Eithe... | |
| Tube dampener questions I then purchased a 1960s d getter tube input/driver tube and the tube dampener became a moot point. The new tube sounded better and I don't feel the need to apply a dampener. Was I really hearing microphonics? I don't know but that tube is bac... | |
| RCA 9289 tube amplifiers I brought the amp up slow on a Variac and it passed sine wave. That's good! Don't keep running it until the power supply has been refurbished. Otherwise running it is a classic way that a failing filter capacitor causes a power transformer to ... | |
| Suggestions for high efficiency speakers? That's dangerously arrogant. You're not acknowledging the alternative, which is conspicuous in itself, and I doubt you've had a pair of symmetrically-to-the-mains placed horn subs or other efficient, large 6th order bandpass ditto (from a point o... | |
| A pitch too High! What should one look for? It should look nice and smooth like you see of photos of syli online. It sits on a little platform of sorts and should be perpendicular to it. Usually they are swaged or glued in. I'm thinking there may be an issue wit... | |
| Best Tube PreAmp - McIntosh vs. Audio Research vs. VAC vs. Atma-Sphere The MP1 is among the top 4 of my list. What's the life of various tubes in MP1, number of tubes/ models, and how expensive they're? Does certain tubes have to be replaced in set? @hitsofmisses None of the tubes are stressed so they last a lon... | |
| A pitch too High! @terrible +1 It might be interesting to look at the stylus of that Grado with a microscope. | |
| Suggestions for high efficiency speakers? but simply that all mayn’t cry ’halleluja’ over the sonic outcome of the DBA approach, even after being preconditioned by theory. You can look at this as theory or fact; works the same regardless: at 80Hz the waveform is about 14 feet long. The... | |
| Best Tube PreAmp - McIntosh vs. Audio Research vs. VAC vs. Atma-Sphere I think the prospect of not burning through tubes while watching TV/movies outweighs whatever you might lose in sound quality for watching video. But, that’s me. I get that, but you can get thousands of hours out of the tubes. If you spend th... | |
| Suggestions for high efficiency speakers? That would be a great option indeed. What’s the price of these? @phusis I’m not sure even though we’ve used them at shows quite a bit. You might inquire with John at CAL. It’s not the price, really, but size. That is: few pre-assembled high... | |
| Best Tube PreAmp - McIntosh vs. Audio Research vs. VAC vs. Atma-Sphere If this is the case, I think you’d be well served to pursue a tubed pre that can deactivate the tubes when using the HT bypass. @soix The problem you have with this approach is the ability to drive interconnect cables in such a way that the cab... | |
| Dustcover Blues Look at my system page and you can see where the turntable is. It is on a granite slab sitting on a built in walnt equipment/record cabinet (which I made) which rests on a concrete slab. The uprights are 1 7/16" plywood. All the shelves are brace... | |
| Suggestions for high efficiency speakers? @fosolitude I think its a good idea to replace your Joseph speakers, which are good speakers but simply not efficient enough to really take advantage of what the Jota does. To do that, the speaker should not expect the amp to be pushed past about ... | |
| How to Improve Gain for RCA on Preamp. Can it be done? Another plagiarising millercarbon cut n paste post goes wrong @tsushima1 There are several ways to interpret your comment; just so you know, Atma-Sphere built the first balanced line preamps offered to home audio back in 1989. We got a paten... |