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| Tube or solid state i think Tubes are better for Jazz and Classical music like Vaughn Williams string works where you can recreate that ethereal sound you get with a live symphony. for Rock its solid state all the way, so ideally 2 amps are needed. This might come... | |
| Inter Connects - What I know and don't know There's an easy way to know. If you run it single-ended into our amps and it plays at a certain volume, does it play louder when running balanced? If yes= does not support the standard if no, volume is the same = supports the standard. This is ... | |
| Inter Connects - What I know and don't know @69zoso69 If stop gap is the measure then why bother with expensive interconnects till you have everything sorted? I think you will find the Mogami cable to actually be quite good. | |
| Inter Connects - What I know and don't know @jerryg123 @69zoso69 Our amps support the balanced standard (AES48). To that end, if your preamp does too, then inexpensive studio balanced line cables will work quite well with very little to be said for exotic cables costing quite a lot more! ... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm The hardness of the metal in the bearing is not the only issue. The fineness of the machining is fundamental. @clearthinker Yes. The bearings in the Triplanar are tiny. The problem you have with any arm with a short arm section is any record... | |
| Audio-grade rectifying diode? Bypass any rectifier diode with a 0.047uF polypropylene cap and it becomes an audio grade rectifier. This statement is false. The old saw about bypassing rectifiers really doesn't work. The problem is that the rectifier has a capacitance in it... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm I think the slop problem arises because the liquid pivot allows too much movement. Just a few microns will allow the stylus to change location relative to the platter and read signals that are not imparted by the groove. I sometimes wonder whet... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm but in a analysis of a variety of designs, there are to be discovered elements in the designs seen that veer away from this. Certainly. I see that as a mistake on their part, nothing more. The physics is inescapable. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm As best I can make out from their website, the Viv breaks a fundamental rule of tonearm design (other than the tracking angle thing). That rule is that there must be profound coupling between the surface of the platter and the mount of the cartri... | |
| Is an autoformer (AVC) always superior to pots and resistors ? Hi Ralph, Not sure you noticed but the OP was asking about AVCs and not TVCs. I have read that AVCs have wider bandwidth, with less ringing, coloration, and smearing than TVCs. Here is more info about AVCs, and here is a review about an AVC preamp... | |
| Russco cue master Idler rim replacement Help anyone, I need to find a new one or used that is not out of round to buy,Thank to anyone that replies @uvon60 If you have the old idler, you can send it to Russell Industries and they can rebuild it for a reasonable fee. I've had them do t... | |
| Blank audio cassettes ARE still made, even in the United States https://www.atrtape.com/ ATR Magnetics makes and sells cassettes here in the US. They are selling off their Ampex ATR service division- there is an announcement about that on their home page- don't be put off by it. | |
| EICO Tube Amp HF 14...Transformer question Upon checking the insides I noticed that one transformer had shilac colored fluid....possibly leaking on its bottom. @rocky1313 The filter capacitors in the power supplies of these amps are so old there is no way they are any good. It would be... | |
| Is an autoformer (AVC) always superior to pots and resistors ? This is an argument some of my friends made to me. AVC is always the best volume control, better than anything else such as rk50 or resistor based volume controls. @smodtactical The correct answer is 'sometimes- maybe??'. TVCs can generate dis... | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D getting some love My Perfect SET 2-10 Tecktons aren't my forever speakers, however they've given me a lot of joy and aren't going anywhere soon. They were designed to pair well with low powered SET tubes, which had me going down the Decware path. I'm curious how y... |