atmasphere
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| A dilemma: Modern sound, Musical Bliss or both? The Indra should not be used with tubes, unlike the Eidelon. Its my opinion that you can get better sound with tubes, so I see this as a weakness in the Indra and also the Isis.But if you are using transistors maybe you will like this speaker just... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? Audiozen, I can guarantee that the noise floor is not going to define the sound quality of any preamp, once it has gained acceptable levels. But excessive low noise floors do make me suspicious. A more important quality might be how the equipment ... | |
| the best 'tubey amp - warm,smooth,liquid' ? The input stage uses a 12AX7 configured as a long-tail pair phase splitter using a large tail resistor to ensure constant current source operation.:) He must be new to differential operation. You can't do that effectively with a resistor like that... | |
| Rabco SL-8E Vs Top Quality Pivoted Tonearms ^^ Thanks for that!I used a simple opamp (FET input) to solve the servo issues. As long as the contacts made a connection of less than 1 Meg ohm, it worked fine. The reduced current through the contacts got rid of contact noise as well. Later I so... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? Still not convinced its the world's best- in shoot outs, people have preferred our preamp hands down, no comparison!If it was the best that would not be happening, right? | |
| Linear tracking vs. Pivoted tracking tone arms. If you look at an LP groove you see that vertical and horizontal motion are both present. Favoring one over the other sounds tricky to me at best. These days most LPs have variable groove spacing so the arm/cartridge combo has to be ready to move ... | |
| Linear tracking vs. Pivoted tracking tone arms. Ketchup, I have heard that before. And you are right, that's a helpful feature and not found in the majority of air bearing arms.What it does is react to minor perturbations (and is thus an acknowledgment of the issue), but if you think about it, ... | |
| Acceptable level of hum at max volume? If you have regulated filament supplies, even with a cathode/filament short in a tube there is no hum.One thing have have found though is a lot of tube equipment manufacturers don't know how to ground their gear. I can name a few famous ones off t... | |
| Moving VPI TNT, Wheaton Triplanar, Transfiguration The Triplanar comes in a very nice shipping box, which you can safely run through baggage handling, or even ship UPS. | |
| Help me pick a great phono cable How does going balanced get me off the cable merry go round? Balanced cables have their own differences, right? How do you suggest configuring the system as "balanced" with the inclusion of a SUT? Are you saying skip the built in MC phono section ... | |
| Rabco SL-8E Vs Top Quality Pivoted Tonearms I ran one of these for years. But before I could do it, I had to fix the servo. Once that is done, not only is it reliable, but the motor noise is reduced and the arm keeps up with the LP properly.This is done by adding a timing constant to the se... | |
| Manufacturers' warning not to change tubes Our customers have had good dealings with Andy at Vintage Tube Services... | |
| Why did this fix my problem? Correction- 100K... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? Michael Fremer was also the one that would bring a CDR into our room to play, a CDR made off of a turntable. He was claiming that it sounded better than most analog, a claim he could not substantiate in our room, to say the least. | |
| Help me pick a great phono cable If you were able to run balanced, you could get off of the cable merry-go-round. Cartridges are a naturally balanced source so its easy to do. In addition, if you have an SUT its possible to run everything balanced even if the preamp isn't. |