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| Best tube preamp ever the best of the best of tube preamps.Well clearly that has to be my preamp :)Seriously though there are a lot of issues with what is thought to be the 'best'. Part of the problem is that some people actually *like* solid state, so it might be that... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? But- you won't want to listen to lofi all that much either... | |
| Jan GE 6cG7 what other tube recommendations I would not worry about it too much. All of the vintage 6CG7s are excellent tubes :) | |
| Building balanced interconnects--ideas Jafreeman, the issue here is that if you put signal (ground) current through the shield, you can wind up with undesirable effects. In a balanced cable, the signal should only appear between pin2 (non-inverted) and pin3 (inverted) of the XLR. IOW g... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Halcro, I'm not sure I agree with Peter on this one. Our model 208 has the motor quite close to the platter (opposite the tone arm; there are no hum problems even with Grados). However the 208 uses a motor that would easily qualify as a flywheel i... | |
| pass labs xa30 to valve amplifier. Slam and attack with clarity? Tube amps can do that in spades. A lot of that has to do with the relationship between the amp and the speaker:http://www.atma-sphere.com/Resources/Paradigms_in_Amplifier_Design.phpTube failure should not be a cause f... | |
| Retip Transfiguration Orpheus They,however, politely declined to do a retip/repair etc citing the non availability of parts on a small scale etcYes- *very* small parts...I was told that the Orpheus was (temporarily, at least) no longer available because the gentleman that does... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy The platter also does not keep rotating very far after the motors are switched off indicating perhaps a bearing designed for friction so that the motors have a load against which to pull?Halcro, I can't think of a reason for a bearing to provide d... | |
| Tube amp decision - Thoughts True, but what is the tradeoff? If there were none, I would imagine they would build high-efficienty speakers (unless they also sold high powered amps) :) No?The problem with high efficiency speakers is that the drivers cost about 10 times more th... | |
| Hum, buzz, snap, crackle and pop? Does the unit make snap crackle and pops when the needle is not on the record? If so tube replacement is good advice.If no, then you have a setup problem and tubes are not indicated. | |
| pass labs xa30 to valve amplifier. Pubul57, as best I can make out, Bobby is pretty conservative with that 89db rating on the Merlins. | |
| Is upgrading worth it? 70s music sounds fine on my system. I like to use bad recordings to test my gear- it should not editorialize if the recording is messed up. I have found that a lot of equipment *will* get upset when you play a bad recording, and make it worse, eve... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy But in general, a good direct-drive motor WiLL have more torque than a good belt-drive motor.As a generalization that is incorrect. A DD drive has to spin at 33 1/3 rpm. In a belt drive, there is a tremendus amplification of torque of the motor af... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? I've seen corrosion at the terminals open up computer grade caps that were only 5 years old.It is true that heat will shorten the life of an electrolytic. But even if there is no heat, to continue to operate an electronic piece with 30-year old ca... | |
| Kate Bush My copy is fine. I played at CES/THE Show as a demo. |