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| Dynaco PAS 2, want to upgrade recifier section. You can use HEXFRED diodes for the high voltage. For the filament, I recommend a 3 Amp silicon rectifier. You will have to install a small terminal strip for the rectifiers and be advised that the filter capacitors are shot! so replace them too.If... | |
| amp -preamp combination question. Loosing the resolution that a good tube preamp offers over almost any solid state is an unacceptable compromise for me. 25 years ago I ran solid state with a tube amplifier. It kinda helped with the tube amps I ran back then (to give a kind of fak... | |
| OTL or SET? Differences? FWIW, one thing that OTLs and SETs have in common is that neither has any hysteresis loss in the output transformer.SETs do not reverse the magnetic field in the transformer, and OTLs don't by definition.Removing the transformer also removes the a... | |
| Preamp Caps?Auricap,Mundorf, Hovland, jensen,solen V-Caps are actually smaller than the equivalent values in polystyrene. You might check the dimensions.If you can't afford the V-Caps, consider the Rel-Cap Teflons. | |
| Tube Question--Slight Ringing coming from one side EL34s can make a 'jingly' sound that emenates directly from the tubes- in fact from the filaments. If the output of the amplifier were shorted or open, the tubes would also make a jingly sound that would be associated with the power demands of the... | |
| Tubes in Hi-End Preamps Here's an answer for the tube question:Our ears have evolved a certain way over literally millions of years. We cannot change that. Tubes and transistors have distortions that are unique to those devices. It just so happens that tubes have distort... | |
| Preamp Caps?Auricap,Mundorf, Hovland, jensen,solen The V-Cap Teflon is one of the coupling caps in existance. There really aren't any paper and oil parts that challenge it. Paper and oil is nice, but in nearly all of them there is a slightly shelved high frequency character (mind you- not a rollof... | |
| tube preamps Never seen a transistor setup that can match the slam, bandwidth, clarity and body of a good tube setup. There's nothing wrong with setting your sights higher! | |
| Tube Question--Slight Ringing coming from one side The complaint is a description of a microphonic preamplier tube, occuring before the volume control in the signal path. The amp has nothing to do with it. | |
| Best "album" of 2006 Kate Bush's Aerial is a wonderful, broad-ranging effort by this consumate artist. The LP has a very nice full color multi-page booklet too- nice production all around. | |
| Amp for harder music with lots of sounds. There are pleny of amps that fit this bill. BTW- all amplifiers that have any guts playing classical will work fine for death metal and electronia as well. Issues of power delivery into load, bandwidth and distortion really do not care what kind o... | |
| Recommendation for Computer/Digital We've been running a computor-based transport for several years. It is based on Linux, and so does not crash like a lot of Micro-based approaches.Data is read from the CD drive at a multiple of the playback. If a bit cannot be read, a variety of s... | |
| Powerful Push Pull Triode Amplifiers Voltage plays the major role in the conversion from Farads (or MicroFarads) to Joules. Joules = ½CVoltage²So you would have to know what voltage your filter caps were charged at. The MA-3 works out to 2838 Joules, since the actual capacity is 270,... | |
| I'm Looking for some great electronic music One of my favorite bands:Global Communication- they did three albums that got issued on LP. Any one of them is well worth while. The middle LP got our Bass of the Year Award for 1995.There was a band called Mystical Experiences that did an LP abou... | |
| New vinyl recorded all analog? Most of the Low albums are all analog. Several of them are recorded in an old church with natural acoustics. Can't be sure that the latest one on Subpop is all analog, but the ones on Kranky have really good sound and say 'AAA' on them. |