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| Falling out of love with tubes Thank you all for your input! Here’s what I’ve gathered: modern tube preamps will not sacrifice my newfound detail (including Conrad Johnson’s PV-10al), a tube preamp will give me back those rich odd-order harmonics I have a taste for, and use ... | |
| Falling out of love with tubes By “going direct” I meant plugging the headphone out jack of my computer into the input of the SA-250 amp and using the volume control of the computer. Also, my Denon cassette player has an output level control. Thanks! | |
| Power an amp and component with batteries instead of direct outlet power? This is what I had in mind, but I think it's out of my budget: http://www.audiosalon.com/brands/stromtank-s-5000-independent-power-source/ | |
| Power an amp and component with batteries instead of direct outlet power? Thanks for the lead! I was thinking power inverter, not transformer, oops. | |
| My turntable started distorting, can you assist me? *stops breathing into a paper bag*I'm so relieved to hear that I haven't damaged my records!The stylus that fell apart was a vintage MC Supex SDX 1000. My interim cartridge while the Supex was being repaired was a brand new cheap diamond cartridg... | |
| My turntable started distorting, can you assist me? Horror is setting in as the problem was incorrect tonearm height. I think I may have damaged ALL of my favorite records by setting the tonearm too high. This may have also caused my diamond to break off. All is well that ends well, I finish with... |