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| Audio Research VS60 amp Matched tubs Thank you. If I change from 6550 to all KT 120, is sound quality will be better than 6550?Just got off the phone with ARC tech at ARC. He said KT120 will improve sound quality but it will shorten life of transformer.You won’t improve the sound goi... | |
| Where do you guys buy tubes? Just got off the phone with Kalvin at ARC regarding KT120 or 6550. I will do 6550 because transformer will run hotter with KT120 and will shorten life of transformers. So I only need one matched pair of 6550.If you are looking for a set of mat... | |
| ground the outlet or not?? Does this make sense or not - thksI'm going with: does not make sense and could be really dangerous. | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. There won't be any directionality if the fuse is used in an AC circuit. Its really really hard to see how such a fuse could then be used in a DC circuit and impart any directionality whatsoever. I'd love to see the explanation on that one!! | |
| QUALITY AND SECURITY OF "LITTELFUSE" PRODUCTS The fuse argument is much like the power cord argument. People contend that inexpensive wire is in your walls, so why would the last 6 feet matter, and yet most people reading this will agree that it does.Thom, its not hard to measure the effec... | |
| What is the "sound" dif. between a Joule -Elctra OTL and a SET amp?? Fluffers isn't interested in Frankenstein, he's has the Wyetech 211 amplifiers and is considering the Joule OTL. Thaluza owns the Frankenstein and previously owned the Jolues.Charles, Thanks- as you surmised I was confused. FWIW you might want ... | |
| What is the "sound" dif. between a Joule -Elctra OTL and a SET amp?? Fluffers, Just so we are clear here, unless you are in a smaller room, which is hard to imagine with T-1s, the Frankensteins will likely not have enough power. To really hear what an amplifier like that is all about, you would need a good 6-10 db ... | |
| My 50W, 8ohm amp can't drive my 86db, 4ohm speakers? WTF?? I wonder if turning on and off my amp daily had a part in this. I think I will consider leaving it on all time, though I really dislike that thought since I only listen to my system 1-2 hours a night. In short (no pun intended), no. That has n... | |
| What is the "sound" dif. between a Joule -Elctra OTL and a SET amp?? The T-1s can use the additional power unless you are in a really small room. I use T-3s, which are the same efficiency and impedance and my preference is our M-60 amplifiers which can make about 80 watts on this speaker (the M-60 is also an OTL). ... | |
| OK...I've ditched my mono cartridge Unfortunately, the preamp driving one of my two systems lacks any mono switch (Atma-sphere MP1). I am thinking of replacing the function of its "phase" switch with a "mono" functionLew, just so you know, we do option the preamp with a mono sw... | |
| CHINESE tubes? Regarding the boutique tubes: Psvane, Sophia and TJ Music:This applies only to the 6SN7s so far, but customer feedback on these tubes is that they combine the best qualities of the NOS varieties without their weaknesses! pretty potent comments! No... | |
| Is a stereo amp, when bridged to mono, by definition differential? If you are talking about one of Steve McCormick's designs in the context of this question, you have no worries. He knows what he is doing and his inputs work correctly. | |
| My 50W, 8ohm amp can't drive my 86db, 4ohm speakers? WTF?? Again, I'm wondering how a rectifier can fail - it's under-spec'd for the job, an AC power surge during a bad electrical storm, power supply capacitor does not have a DC path to ground to discharge when the amp is turned off thus discharges thr... | |
| CHINESE tubes? We used to use the Russian 6SN7s. They really didn't perform well and were unreliable. About 1998 or so we switched to Chinese 6SN7s and they have been treating us quite well. They are not the best sounding 6SN7, but they are not bad. They are cop... | |
| Harman/Kardon Receiver If I'm not mistaken, the 430 was part of their lineup that used separate power transformers for each channel. So its a dual-mono design in a single chassis. That is a good portion of why it does what it does. |