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| Contact info of Steve Huntley Snap-in caps work fine- as well as any other electrolytic. Most electrolytics will have similar performance. Its mostly about the application- for example some situations they might need to handle more ripple current, or survive higher temperature... | |
| Tannoy Westminster amp matching question. Art80342, I've heard that the BAT and the Tannoys are not the best combination. Overall though the speaker is very tube-friendly. | |
| $5000.00 To Spend Looking for Tube Pre-Amp Dragon_vibe, I take it you want the preamp to support balanced operation?If looking into speakers, check out http://www.audiokinesis.com These are some very refined and very easy to drive speakers that are also reasonably priced. | |
| Does the volume control effect sound quality? Almost all rotary switches have a stiff disc wiper made out of a different material to the springier metal that the leaf/leaves are made out of.'Almost all' *but not* all. I can think of several off the top of my head that use similar metals and s... | |
| Contact info of Steve Huntley What is the diameter of the old part? Does it have screw terminals?Off hand this does not sound like it would be all that hard to find something. | |
| $18k Tube preamp for large scale symphonies please Philipwu, I am not. The ability of a tube preamp to play the instruments with body and impact at the same time is the pervue of tubes and the bane of transistors. Sure, its easy for transistors to be fast (harder for tubes but what we are really t... | |
| Opinions on ICL, Inrush Current Limiter Hifigeek1, nearly every amplifier has line fuses. A current inrush limiter will have a high value at turn-on, but a negligible value under normal load. This prevents damage to switch contacts, rectifiers and the like. The 'thermistor' you refer to... | |
| Does the volume control effect sound quality? I know we aren't supposed to be off topic here but is the Pope Catholic?? IOW, yes. Georgelofi, we've done a lot of experiments with controls and I find that I can't agree with your regarding relays. Universally they were inferior to a good qualit... | |
| RIAA vs Columbia vs Decca Remastered LPs of original monos will have the RIAA curve even though the original might have used different EQ. BTW most of the alternate EQ settings (Columbia and Decca being two examples) are used for 78s and were never used for LP. | |
| Weird question re: balanced connection If you are looking to monostrap a tube amplifier, the procedure is different from that of a transistor amp.This procedure is outlined in the Dynaco Stereo 70 manual FWIW.The amps to be monostrapped must be absolutely identical! The same signal mus... | |
| Opinions on ICL, Inrush Current Limiter CILs can be very helpful! They help prevent switches from being damaged during turn-on as well as other parts. They were not always available, so on older units of 40-50 years and more you won't see them. But on newer units the designer is missing... | |
| Who makes the highest quality tube gear? best designed and constructed technically, personal sound preferences asideWhat I get from this is something like, 'tube stuff that is of sound design, built well, meant to last and sounds good at the same time'.I can think of a few that sound goo... | |
| Does the volume control effect sound quality? We've done a lot of mods on Dynaco equipment over the years in fact that is how we got started back in the 70s. The volume control on the older PAS-3 was always a problem. Eventually we had some custom switches made up so we could install a steppe... | |
| Question for technicians I work on vintage electronics a lot. The better stuff frequently have 'J pots' in them- Allen Bradley J-Style potentiometers. They are really well sealed. If they get noisy, the technique above actually works fairly well on them unless they are re... | |
| Tube amplifiers and interstage transformers I don't know why the laws of human hearing are'nt appreciated more and respected.A lot of what we know about human hearing rules has only been worked out in the last 35- 40 years. But by 50 years ago, most of the understanding of how to analyze au... |