atmasphere
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| Low level buzzing coming from tweeters. @ncarvIf a tube is doing this, it won’t be one of the output tubes. They can make cracking and popping sounds but a low level buzz is unlikely. | |
| ARC Ref 75SEs - great with Wilson or Dynaudio speakers. What about Vandersteen 2CI? The 2CI is very tube friendly so I think its totally worth a shot. | |
| Autobiasing tube amp failure Consider yourself lucky as a few times they blew out my Tweeters.A tube failure won't blow out a tweeter! Tweeters fail because the amp being used is underpowered and is making too much distortion when driven too hard. My question is how can this ... | |
| New Technics SL1200G turntable We've been using a mat made by Oracle that works pretty well. | |
| Small room electrostat/ planar speaker? All planar speakers-certainly all magnepans-have crossovers; this is a main reason I prefer single driver or other non-conventional crossover designs, e.g. 1st order crossovers or "super tweeters" crossed over way up high with a simple filter (... | |
| Getting into tubes Are you referring to the S-30 amp? The only issue may be how much heat it produces. I see it draws 400 watts and assuming much of that gets disappated. My room is small and heats up quickly, plus I live in Southern California where it really do... | |
| Mellow speakers for a digital piano Seriously, try out a reverb. Its highly likely that is part of the sound you are after. | |
| Where do I start-amp or speakers ? You'll tie your hands behind your back if you buy the amp first. Well, if you get a big Sound Lab, there really aren't a lot of amps that drive that speaker all that well. But it is at the same time one of the most transparent and full range speak... | |
| 20 Year Old Amplifiers compared to 2017 Lets not forget the Carver challenge to Stereophile Magazine (J Gordon Holt) that he could make a $700.00 amplifier (specifically his model 1.0) sound indistinguishable from any high end amp of their choice and he succeeded in doing so.Well...... | |
| Low level buzzing coming from tweeters. The amps are old VTL Deluxe 500's and, though the caps were replaced, there is some transformer hum. I'm wondering if it has just gotten worse over time and is transmitting to the speakers.Probably not. But depending on how the tubes are lit, if... | |
| Technics 1200 GAE, 1200GR or 1200G? IME the platter pad is a problem with the SL1200G, just a rubber mat.That affects the sound; if you really want to know how it does, use the same mat when doing comparisons! | |
| Mellow speakers for a digital piano If this is just for home use, I would start with a tube amp of about 30 watts, like a Dynaco ST-70 or the like, and find a set of speakers that are easy to drive so that 30 watts means something. My JBL JRX215 speakers that I use for my keyboard r... | |
| Harmon Kardon HK430 Its unlikely that this is an easy thing to fix at home. But any competent technician should be able to sort it out.There is a lot of variance in demultiplexer designs (this is the circuit that decades the FM stereo signal from the mono) and some o... | |
| Getting into tubes The Merlins are designed for tubes FWIW. Bobby showed with Joule Electra when he did audio shows- we showed with Merlins as well.The TSM works well with our smallest amp which is a 30 watt OTL. So it is an easy speaker to drive. | |
| Where do I start-amp or speakers ? If you start with the amp, you may have to work with speakers you don't like.A quick look at the industry shows that there are at any time at least ten times as many manufacturers of speakers as there are amps, so its likely that the above stateme... |