atmasphere
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| High value, high efficiency speakers for SET amps The Classic Audio Loudspeakers have efficiencies that are what you want for a 300b SET (which only makes about 7 watts). The best suited in their line is the Hartsfield reproduction.Sorry to pop some bubbles here:The problem you are up against is ... | |
| "Warm Sounding" Solid State Amplifiers Csontos, I play in a band and have played sting bass in orchestras since I was in 7th grade. Not that that makes me an expert, but I do attend a lot of concerts. I agree that concerts with amplification are anything but warm.But if I go to an unam... | |
| National Record Store Day is Saturday April 18th RSD-only release: "My Squelchy Life" from 1991. | |
| Rock and roll speakers? ^^ A waste of money- just get one good system and you are set.'Good' does not mean expensive. It means 'good'. The two are not always the same. | |
| Scott 340A Repair help Scott equipment is not particularly challenging. Any technician that can repair tube equipment should be able to replace the filter caps and otherwise service out a Scott so its back in the running. | |
| "Warm Sounding" Solid State Amplifiers You may find that finding a transistor amplifier that has the warmth associated with real music (and tubes) to be harder than replacing the occasional tube.IOW, if you seek the musicality of tubes, why not just get a tube amp and be done? | |
| McIntosh MR78 tuner repair Replacements will likely have a sticker identifying its brand, pin out and associated values. The originals will have that info stamped into the side of the part. | |
| National Record Store Day is Saturday April 18th Found an older Brian Eno album never on LP before, done as a National Record Store Day special. | |
| Rock and roll speakers? I think the element being not mentioned enough is that rock n roll is usually played loud and is not that sonically nuanced. Much is electric and the drums are simpler and less sophisticated. That's quite a generalization! But the fact of the mat... | |
| Phono amps or stages for high-output cartridges? All of our preamps work fine with high output cartridges.Our UV-1 preamp can be ordered with a phono section for high output cartridges or low output (in which case a stepup transformer is added). I think there is a lot of life left in high output... | |
| McIntosh MR78 tuner repair Be careful if you decide to remove the glass- the lettering on the dial can be fragile.If this really is an older unit get the filter caps replaced! Otherwise your power transformer is at risk and they are not easy to find. | |
| Electrostatic speakers and low volume resolution Hi Atmashphere, Electrostats that are not direct driven already have a transformer to step up the voltage built in. Would it not be better to replace the transformer in the speaker with one that raises the impedance, than to add a set of Zero's?Ce... | |
| amp for vandersteen Quatro maybe vandersteen 5a The main portion of the 5A is tube friendly- most of our customers use our MA-1s on there to good effect. | |
| McIntosh MR78 tuner repair If you encounter noise while tuning the station, the bearings in the tuning capacitors are corroded. They can be sorted out with a contact cleaner like Deoxit- spray into the bearings of the tuning caps and run the cap back and forth a few times. | |
| Electrostatic speakers and low volume resolution Piezo tweeters usually don't need a crossover- you can just hook them up. Check with the manufacturer to be sure.You may need some kind of level control to tame its output. |