atmasphere
Responses from atmasphere
| 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. | |
| Raidho D1's and recommendations for amplifiers The size of your room and your listening tastes are going to play a big role here. If your room is larger you may find that you don't have enough power. Moderate and smaller rooms should be fine. The speaker appears to be a moderate 6 ohm load- an... | |
| Driver/Input tubes The 12AX7 has a lot of gain (mu of 100 for those into technical stuff) and so is useful for voltage gain.However the gain of the tube is traded off with a high impedance and so it is lousy for driving power tubes! Therefore a 12AT7 is employed (on... | |
| help me build a cheap second system If you can find a Dynaco SCA-35, pick it up and have it refurbished. It makes about 17 watts per channel and has MM phono preamp built in.A cheap CD player that sounds quite decent is the Oppo.If you can find a set of Realistic speakers with the L... | |
| Electrostatic speakers and low volume resolution A super tweeter is one that operates at about 10KHz and above. A regular tweeter might only roll in at about 2KHz or so. | |
| McIntosh MR78 tuner repair Cleaned? I assume more than just dusting it out?How old is the unit? If from the 1960s, have the filter capacitors in the power supply been replaced recently? If not they are overdue. | |
| SOS: Andy Bowman - Vintage Tube Services We've been recommending Andy to our customers for close to 20 years. He seems to always do well. | |
| Barnes & Noble and vinyl LP's We got 'em in Minnesota. I know they are selling because I bought one... |