atmasphere
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| Potential problems w/ commercial open reel tapes If you store your tapes in a box, find some of those Silica Gel packs that you see in boxes of stuff shipped from Japan to pack in with the tapes. Silica Gel is a desiccant and will lengthen the storage time of modern tapes as humidity is what cau... | |
| Triplanar Question?? I have a Triplanar Mk7 with the Universe Copper. I set the anti-skate at the same level as the tracking force. I found the VTA setting to be critical to really wake things up. The combination is quite good! Records I thought were slightly worn now... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century The V-Cap Teflons are the best thing out there right now. We find them more open, smoother and more detailed. Anytime you can get "smoother and more detailed" together you are on the right track. | |
| Opportunity to buy the best Preamp... but which? Hi George, we do have a demo program. Give us a call for details 651-690-2246 | |
| Opportunity to buy the best Preamp... but which? Downunder, I get that. It seems that your situation illustrates the issue that, if there *is* a 'best' preamp, it would be almost impossible to find it, for no other reason than its almost impossible to get your hands on all the possibilities for ... | |
| Opportunity to buy the best Preamp... but which? Hi Downunder, In the world of tubes, the Aesthetix preamps are highly regarded, Einstein has an impressive preamp, we've been making an all tube balanced preamp longer than anyone else...I guess my point is, why did you go back to CJ after such a ... | |
| Personal amp evolution Since I'm a manufacturer, I've stayed off this thread, but re-reading it- well, I am still an audiophile.My first amplifier was a Knight Kit KA-95, which was a 35 wpc EL34-based integrated amp. From there I had a variety of Dyna St70s, MkIIIs, HK ... | |
| Opportunity to buy the best Preamp... but which? Hi Downunder, there are at least 5 other tube preamps I can think of that will do that. If I think about it, I can probably name more. Any reason why you limit yourself to the CJ? | |
| Tube preamp noise question Gjames, if the sound appears only in one channel, the first thing I would do would be to swap the interconnects from the preamp to amp, left for right *at the amp input only*.See if the problem moves. If it does not--> ampif it does --> prea... | |
| A question I suspect reveals a lot of ignorance... If your amplifier is class A, the volume setting will have little effect on tube life.With any other class of operation, the higher the volume setting, the shorter the life of the tubes, although other factors such as the actual bias level of the ... | |
| pairing a Dynaco st70 with a preamp Any good tube peramp will work fine.If it really is a vintage unit, make sure your filter capacitors in the power supply have been serviced out! | |
| Bypassing capacitor caps , and caps in General Bypassing filter caps good, bypassing coupling caps bad.Now some specifics: There are a lot of high frequency effects that can occur and you can't just bypass a power supply cap and get away with it, although sometimes you can. If you really want ... | |
| Best amps for MBL101e's? Hi Dob, FWIW our customer found that the MA-2 ($32,000) ran the speaker so well that he became quite curious as to what our preamps did, and bought one of those (MP-1, $10,300) so his system is all-tube. Apparently he had done solid state, and the... | |
| Opportunity to buy the best Preamp... but which? Jmaldonado, if God made a preamp it wouldn't have transistors in it either :) | |
| Anybody familiar with Mundorf silver&oil caps Hi Robert, it looks like we could not use the Duelands as the voltages are far too low.I stand by my earlier comment about bypassing: bypassing any coupling cap with another will result in smearing and there is no way to get around this. The rathe... |