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| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm Whatever the table, it should have a robust drive. If you look at the vintage machines that have really garnered a following, you will see that they all have that in common: the SP-10, the Garrard 301, the Empire 208, the Lenco...Wimpy drives seem... | |
| Can I replace a 24uF capacitor with 22uF? You can make electrolytics work but they have to be biased correctly! I don't know why, but for some reason most speaker manufacturers don't do this. The problem is that electrolytics can't be reverse-biased. This is supposed to be why you use non... | |
| $18k Tube preamp for large scale symphonies please If the preamp is fully balanced, doing phase reversal is a non-issue. We have had one our our preamps for the last 24 years. | |
| Amplifier for Quads The classic combination with ESLs since the 1950s has been ESLs and OTLs.The impedance curve of the speaker is benign. The advantage that OTLs offer is that there is one less transformer in the signal chain so its more transparent. The other thing... | |
| Tube Amps for Revel Salons We have a customer with a set of MA-1s that raves about the combination. I would have expected that he would have needed more power but that does not seem to be the case. | |
| Choosing between Reissue and Original pressings Whart, if you see that, then yes. You might want to read the Wikipedia page on the Heaco.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haeco-CSGPani, correct. That is why the country of origin is so important. ELP released their first LP in the US and the UK. The ... | |
| Hookup wire for tube amplifier? Dracule1, you should try direct-coupling sometime. Especially at the output of a preamp this can have a huge effect. | |
| Choosing between Reissue and Original pressings Viridian makes a good point about the condition of the master tape. Even if stored immaculately it will have degraded over years and decades.I go for the original, pressed in the country in which the recording was made. There is a feedback process... | |
| $18k Tube preamp for large scale symphonies please Philipwu, I have been able to sort out what kind of amp you have. Does it have a balanced input? How long do you need the interconnect cables to reach? Have you considered the effect that preamps have on the cables?FWIW electronics do not care wha... | |
| Starting from Scratch -Please Help Pick 1 out of 3 Thegoodarcher, Atma-Sphere amps don't explode :) Yes, they have a lot of tubes but the tubes are cheap. And if a tube fails it does not damage the speaker. We would not be in business after 36 years if that were the case :)We have seen cases where... | |
| pass labs xa30 to valve amplifier. No, you just pick the right position on the volume control and it works fine. The MP-3 has a custom-built stepped volume control composed of 96 resistors. It sounds as good as a bypass. | |
| Hookup wire for tube amplifier? Kijanki, I don't think you will find 7Ns copper in any wires anytime soon. As soon as its extruded you are down to 99.99%. The wires as seen in the article don't seem to be commonly made.Further, it might be interesting for audiophiles to understa... | |
| ROGERS LS 3/5A MONITOR SPEAKERS They only handle about 35 watts. This is part of the reason that they were 15 ohms as transistor amps have a harder time damagin them, and also tend to sound smoother than if the speaker were 8 ohms.And as others have mentioned, they were really w... | |
| would 50 feet speaker wires be harmful to amp? I think you will find that in running cable lengths that long that you will loose a lot of definition!Things like vocals will be harder to discern; details will be smeared and lost.There is more to speaker cable than just resistance and capacitanc... | |
| Proac response 2 There is a place here in town that has done speaker reconing for at least the last 40 years. You might talk to them- they can do re-foaming easily:http://www.midwestspeaker.com/ |