atmasphere
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| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? I think he means "abilities" but whatever. Yes- either way the meaning is not significantly changed. | |
| Chasing down the problem If you are referring to those toggle switches on the front panel, yes, they are very capable of doing that. It is possible to clean them a bit, by putting the preamp on its rear panel and spraying a bit of Deoxit in the green and black can directl... | |
| Total bass suck out at 40hz Good work! If you play with the phase of the rear (or side) subs you might be able to kill that slight 40Hz peak too. | |
| Chasing down the problem BTW, could a driver tube failure cause a cessation of sound? Seems a little odd, but onwards I go.It certainly can!As you've found out though, that wasn't it. Here's a bit of troubleshooting advice, should you run into a problem that occurs in one... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? First is not the tonearm whom makes the tracking but the cartridge tracking habilities.Now, everything the same the superior rtonearm is that one that permits that the cartridges tracks " everything " and I agree it should do it controlling reso... | |
| Subwoofer failure I'm sure it will be fine. Good work! | |
| Vandersteen 3A Sig vs Harbeth vs Spatial OB The Spatials from your list are the best options.The musical choices have nothing to do with it. The simple fact is that Harbeths in general are designed for solid state and are usually not that easy to drive. You only have 50 watts and using the ... | |
| How to judge a preamp's sound And also back then in those vinyl days it was a long held saying as well, "the best sounding preamp should sound like a piece of wire" or "sound like no preamp"These two, 'sounding like a piece of wire' and sounding 'like no preamp' are not the ... | |
| Are there any tube amps that don't give off any--- Hi Ralph, what happened with your prototypes? Any closer to your class Ds? Yes. We've continued working on the design, hammering out details. Recently that's turned to the power supplies, since the entire thing has to be protected against shorted ... | |
| Budget Tube Preamp ($2000) Used Modulus 3B. Nothing cleaner. Sure there is. That is a nice option though. | |
| Thoughts on vintage Accuphase We serviced out a C-200 several weeks ago. It is extremely well built and the design is top notch. Any electronics this old though needs all the filter capacitors replaced in the power supplies.But seriously there are many better sounding preamps.... | |
| Are there any tube amps that don't give off any--- I hear good things about the Element, Purify and a few others. | |
| 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 ... |