atmasphere
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| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? I had a Rabco in which I replaced the arm with carbon fiber and set up the cat whiskers to drive an opamp, complete with a bit of capacitive smoothing so the opamp could match the speed of the grooves. It worked well except that the track on which... | |
| smaller speakers for critical listening? I guess I have to ask "what is 'critical listening'"? You hook up some Radio Shack speakers. You know they're cheap. So what are you critiquing? Radio Shack made some surprisingly good speakers and some other ones too :)They are most noted fo... | |
| Why are there so many wooden speakers? These threads have been seen to go away when they are reported. If everyone reports this thread for trolling, it stands a good chance of being removed. The Report button is located at the lower right hand corner of each post. You have to hover ... | |
| Subwoofer failure I used to see woofers with dust cap problems on occasion back when I did consumer repair for a living. I repaired them with SealAll, which seemed to work a bit better than crazy glue. I've also glued down loose spiders in this way. I stayed away f... | |
| The conclusion I've reached about speakers These threads have been seen to go away when they are reported. If everyone reports this thread for trolling, it stands a good chance of being removed. The Report button is located at the lower right hand corner of each post. You have to hover the... | |
| Audio Research preamps EXCESSIVE OPERATING COSTS Very expensive when replacing 8 tubes.@emergingsoul Its unusual to have to replace all the tubes at once! Tubes have really variable service lives. Some will go a few hundred hours and others will go 20,000 hours. | |
| Are there any tube amps that don't give off any--- @daveyf If heat really is the deal (and installing inexpensive venting is out of the question), then you might consider a class D amp, as they run the coolest of any kind of amp. There are some class D amps now that rival tubes for smoothness and ... | |
| How to judge a preamp's sound @hilde45 FWIW even a cable and no preamp at all has a sound unless you jump through some hoops to prevent it doing so. It helps to have recordings with which you are familiar. I use recordings I made myself (and have the master tapes) so I know ho... | |
| Slight hum coming from preamp/amp My surmise is the hum has something to do with the computer but if you only hear it with your ears near the drivers of the speaker its absolutely no concern whatsoever. | |
| Audio Research preamps EXCESSIVE OPERATING COSTS The tubes only cost that much when you get them from ARC. They are in sockets for a reason- they are considered 'user replaceable' which means you can buy tubes from the Tube Depot or the like and spend considerably less! | |
| Highest BUILD quality tube amps? IMO/IME building a power amp, especially a tube amp, is best done point to point. This ensures that the amp will have the longest life. But I also find it important to have a nice build quality and appearance internally, since its actually easier ... | |
| Pass Labs x250.8 vs tube amps The Sound Labs are a different sort of beast. Like most ESLs, they don't work so well with amps that can double power as impedance is halved, since the Electrostatic principle doesn't rely on a driver in a box...The impedance curve of the speaker ... | |
| The CJ Premiere 12 was the best vintage tube amplifier ever. I find this hard to believe. The Harmon Kardon Citation 2 had/has wider bandwidth and lower distortion (by half). Of course it dates from 1959-1960 so is a good 30 years older, but if properly refurbished with new filter capacitors in the power su... | |
| Are there any tube amps that don't give off any--- Remember Ralph, hot glass looks just like cold glass. This is from personal experience (goes for metal as well).True, but this comment (taken out of context) was part of an explanation of how in most cases the filaments are not why tubes run so ho... | |
| vinyl versus digital redux Atmasphere! I have two original copies of It's a Beautiful Day! I loved it so much I bought another copy worried I would play the one to death. Finding the original Columbia of that is no easy task. It sounded great, and people played them to dea... |