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| Top ten tube preamps The reason I use tubes is not so it sounds like it does! I use them because you can't tell what is in the preamp- nor would you care- its all about the music.I would use transistors if I thought I could get this same quality but so far its not bee... | |
| Amplification for Wilson Watt Puppy 7s or 8s FWIW, the Puppy woofers don't need a lot of 'current'. John Giolas, the national sales manager for Wilson, used our amps for years on his WP7s and 8s. You have to understand that at Wilson, you have your pick of almost any amp you want, and you do... | |
| cleaning the pins of NOS tubes...bad idea? The **most** I ever use is a simple contact cleaner like you get at Radio Shack. After cleaning the tube pins, I wipe them down to remove all excess. The reason I am careful about this is it is very easy to contaminate the base of the tube and/or ... | |
| which is better ? MC phono stage or MM+step-up ? Brent, All transformers have a primary and secondary winding (if they only have a primary then they are called autoformers). The windings do not care if one side is at ground or not. So at the input to the SUT, you could lift the winding connectio... | |
| Top ten tube preamps Exactly- that is what I find too. | |
| DCS Puccini into Lamm M 1.2 w/o preamp? All the dCS units I have seen employ digital volume controls. If you have one keep in mind that as you reduce the volume, you are also reducing the resolution. That is why its often a good idea to consider a preamp with a good analog volume contro... | |
| Top ten tube preamps IMO/IME when you go for synergy its one coloration counteracting another- not a good way to go if you really want neutrality. I recommend choosing equipment on its strengths, if that makes any sense. | |
| Dynamic Headroom In a Class A amp the output devices do not go into cutoff within the amp's linear region. Sure, you have the amp biased heavily, but that does not affect output voltage. Many people are surprised to find out that the bias point does not affect the... | |
| which is better ? MC phono stage or MM+step-up ? Emorrisiv, one thing you will find in working with cartridges in general is it is best to keep your connections between the cartridge and the preamp to a minimum. In the case of an SUT, I think you will also find the cable **after** the SUT to mor... | |
| Dynamic Headroom Class of operation has everything to do with headroom. A class A amplifier has by definition 0 db of headroom. I have always looked at the headroom spec as a way to make cheaper amps look better due to the term itself. IOW 'headroom' seems to impl... | |
| Tube Monoblock location? - Rack or near speakers? 5 meters is a long way to run single-ended cables. FWIW your dealer must not know what balanced lines can do. His statement is preposturous.But since the CAT has a single-ended input, and because the ARC does not support the balanced standard (whi... | |
| Favourite ECM Titles Steve Tibbetts! I play Steve's LPs at shows and people **always** ask 'what's playing?' Steve is his own combination of folk and progressive rock. Steve has been recording since the mid 1970s. One of the more serious masters of the guitar as well.... | |
| The Hub: What's that weird green light? Thanks Bill and keep up the good work! If things go right, I'll see you at Axpona (we really weren't planning on it until after THE Show, now I'm trying to shoehorn it into our schedule). | |
| "Tell the industry what you want" postingboard I'm with Spencer on this one- good quality tubes built the way the NOS tubes were would be really nice. | |
| Grounding phono cable The ground wire makes no difference, except that of course if it isn't there you will really notice it :) |