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| Found Great Seller - Plinth for Technics 1200 GAE That’s a base not a plinth. The plinth is the bit that supports both the platter and tonearm. In the 1200G, the plinth is built of several components such that it is anti-vibration, to reduce colorations. It does look nice. | |
| What say you binding posts or direct wire? this person also eliminated the selector knob on his linestage so that changing source components meant switching RCA cables (at least that wasn't hardwired). Thus putting the plating on his connectors at risk. If RCAs and gold-clad, they won't... | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? Music is processed by the limbic system of the brain. But if there is something wrong (like distortion) the processing is unconsciously moved to the cerebral cortex. There is a tipping point for this. When this occurs the presentation loses some o... | |
| 300b lovers 2. I use interstage transformers and separate PS for driver and input tubes. As a result, I have two separate GNDs: 1st - for output circuit and PS 2nd - for input/driver circuit and PS. Should I connect both these GND together to the amplifier c... | |
| Anyone Here Ever Purchased A Tube Tester? @mitch4t Tube testers will not find a sputtering tube. The best way to find it is to swap it with the other channel if that is possible, if not, with another tube of the same type elsewhere in your system. It can also be a corroded tube socket a... | |
| XLR recomendation @djohn I use the Mogami 2549. | |
| Tubes, tone, and old age. And on a related note, what measurements - if there are any - show the difference in sound between SS and tubes? Could one see this on a frequency chart? Yes. Look at distortion vs frequency- if it begins rising much below about 10KHz you will... | |
| Experiences With Costly Balanced XLR Interconnects Above $3,000 I am curious to know why won’t manufacturers follow the AES48 standard. Do you think Audio Research, Mark Levinson, Cary Audio, Krell, and most of BAT all (Balanced Audio technology) don’t follow this standard? For the kind of money these guys ch... | |
| Experiences With Costly Balanced XLR Interconnects Above $3,000 Can somebody here explain to me why $3,000 XLR connectors supposedly have a better CMRR than say $100 XLR connectors? @pwerahera They won't. CMRR is a function of the electronics, not the cable. The goal of the balanced line system is to elimi... | |
| 300b lovers Are there any tubes that, in a PP IT loaded design, would be reasonably linear and provide enough drive for a single 300B without a cathode follower stage? @jaytor Sure! We are assuming that you plan to use a high efficiency speaker so you’re ... | |
| 300b lovers what are your thoughts on using a balanced input stage to drive a single ended 300B? My front end hardware is all balanced and I like using balanced connections. I’m thinking an LTP with a CCS on the cathodes and a push/pull interstage on the ano... | |
| 6sn7 to 6922 adapter: good idea or bad idea? I thought the sonics were as good and often better than the 6922s @armstrod I've often felt that the 6922 is not a good tube for audio and also think the 6SN7 to be better. But the 6SN7 has different operating characteristics so its highly unli... | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? @rauliruegas You left out part of my comment, which invalidates your complaint. The full text was Live music does not sound like a recording unless its made in the same venue. emphasis added. | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? It’s curios that not only in your last post but in any other you don’t reffer to LIVE MUSIC. You post about experiments/tests/audiophile adjectives and the like but not live MUSIC. Live music does not sound like a recording unless its made in t... | |
| Audio Research Reference 150 - buzzing input transformer I still have the old transformer in a box over here - it seems there’s only one set of long bolts (at least those that could have been tightened). Those are the very ones. |