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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... 
Preamp:...Add A Pass-Through For Home Theater
If your preamp has a good quality volume control there's really no need for a home theater bypass. @reubent is correct.  
Dustcover Blues
The bass is due to the boundary effect. Yes. But it appears you have a standing wave; if you were to break that up the boundary effect might be a bit reduced (that's how it worked out in my room anyway...). From how you've written about this, i... 
Dustcover Blues
You can see that up against the side wall the bass is way up My surmise is that is your room boundary effect and may also be complicated by a standing wave (looks like you have cancellation in the center of the room). A distributed bass array m... 
A guy asks a question about high efficiency speakers........
I posted that and I have no idea why it was canceled. Put it up again. The moderaters have been working hard to remove a ton of spam and your thread probably was removed accidentally.  
RCA 9289 tube amplifiers
I thought it amusing Ralph weighed in here.... One of my employees refurbished a pair of the little brothers to this amp, that he got from an old theater. IIRC they made about 60 watts using a pair of 6550s.