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| 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. | |
| Powerful Push Pull Triode Amplifiers There is a lot to be said for clean power! Clean power means you can run the amps close to (but not) clipping and still have them be musical.MBLs being what they are it is nice to have some power behind them, but FWIW the difference between 220 wa... | |
| 6C33-B vs everything else. FWIW, the 6C33C-B is out of production and is not expected to go back into production as the plant that built it is gone- closed about 3 years ago. There is a substantial stock of the tube ('thousands' according to one distributor) still available... | |
| McIntosh Record Compensator found in attic Classic Audio Reproductions (classicaudiorepro.com) has parts for a lot of the old Mac and Marantz tube stuff. | |
| 8 Vs 4 ohms Hi Eldartford, actually the 16 ohm tap is twice the number of turns as the 4 ohm tap. The 8 ohm tap is in between. The impedance of the winding goes up by the square of the number of turns. So the 4 ohm tap is the center tap between 0 and 16.Also,... |