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| Digital microscope recommendations Now if only all the cutter heads used the same cutting angle we would be all set (they don't). | |
| Wilson Sasha vs. older Watt Puppies The older Watts did indeed tend to have a brightness unless you were careful about your amplification. They worked much better with tubes in that regard than solid state, due to the way the resonance in the tweeter was controlled.The Sasha however... | |
| James Burgess Hmm. I have a pair of amplifiers that I was told were made by James Burgess. They started life as Wurlitzer organ amps, but got modified to use 45s as SETs. The mod was done a long time ago- all of the wiring inside is done with cloth covered wire... | |
| I think my speakers are killing my amps. Sounds like a protection relay. It may be that a device overheated and failed- thus the protection relay kicked in to prevent the amp from destroying the speaker.Either way it sounds like service is indicated. I would weigh the cost of repair agai... | |
| Tube Preamp Paired with Tube Phono Stage? If you can get an all-tube recording as well as playback, then its even better :) | |
| ProAc Response 2.5 transparent? The 2.5 is also very tube friendly! | |
| Surface noise Have you done anything to load the cartridge? Grados seem to like about 8000-12,000 ohms. | |
| Amp design logic Depends- does it have mayonnaise? | |
| Tubes vs Solid State Bifwynne, I would certainly give the ZEROs a try and see how that works out. If you are using the 8 ohm tap, at the 70-200Hz region the power tubes are loaded at half of what is expected for them. IOW, the output transformer live up to its name- i... | |
| Tubes vs Solid State There has been the question of why there is 4 ohms. The answer is that it makes it easier to make power with transistor amps.But making power is not by any stretch the same as making the best sound for a given amp. You can look at the specs of any... | |
| Amp design logic some Chinese component weirdness can trickle in 'Trickle' is really an understatement. I can give you plenty of other examples if you like. Just the tube sockets alone are example enough! Filter caps have been problematic as well as semiconductors... | |
| Preamp for Atma-sphere s30 Marty, there's been of lot of improvement in the S-30 in the last 15 years :) | |
| Warning: Linn tonearm anti-skate not accurate I think you will find that while many arms are marked with antiskate 'settings' that there really isn't an established standard. IOW the antiskate forces at 1 gram on one arm will be different from that of another arm. As a result the best method ... | |
| Technics SP-10 mkII speed adjustment question Sounds like when your guy looks at the strobe, the act of doing it loads the circuit enough that its unstable. Most 'scopes have a high impedance input (10M is typical) so the loading should not be an issue; this suggests that a device very close ... | |
| Who listens only to vinyl? I had a Linn CD transport. It died, seems to have a simple problem but try getting service info out of Linn!However I don't really miss it. I have a large collection of LPs and its always in danger of taking over the house. LPs are lot easier to f... |