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| Will Changing my 100 Watt Tube Amp to a 200 Watt SS Amp Solve My Problem? Are you running a low output MM or MC? It sounds like you need a head amp or a SUT to improve the gain. I think your ARC tube amp is fine. | |
| ARC VS115 Power Transformer Buzzing Finally, I got the parts from ARC last week. I need to find time to replace the power transformer. Before I do that, I went ahead to conduct a preliminary comparison between the 6550 and KT120.My initial impression is the 6550 sounds a little bit ... | |
| Moving Coil Transformers And Preamps...Which ones I replaced my Conrad Johnson Premier 6 head amp with a Hashimoto HM-7 step up transformers (SUT) and I like it very much. Hashimoto SUT is consistently rated higher by audiophiles than other SUTs in the market. | |
| ARC VS115 Power Transformer Buzzing I hope you are right. I wished my case is just a bad transformer and hope the new one will fix my problem since I like the way KT120 sounds now. The reason I posted it here is to see if other ARC VS115 owners experienced the same problem with KT12... | |
| ARC VS115 Power Transformer Buzzing | |
| ARC VS115 Power Transformer Buzzing I have contacted ARC service and according to them that the new KT120 tubes draw more current than the original designed 6550 tubes which caused the power transformer overworked and ran hotter and eventually making noise. Since I did not buy my VS... | |
| Latest Absolute Sound The price of high end equipment these days are outrageous. I don't think the sound are much better than 80' & 90' class A and B components, but the price is easily 5 to 10 times more expensive. So, I always bought used and happy. | |
| Audio Research service I am extremely happy with ARC service. They go beyond and above to help me out even my ARC power amp is out of warranty. | |
| Use 4 or 8 Ohm output tab for norminal 6 Ohm speaker? Yes, I will try the 4 Ohm tab. The problem is that I don't have the golden ears:-):-):-) Thanks for the advice. | |
| Conrad-Johnson Premier 3 - worth repairing? Please let me know if it is still up for sale. I will buy it from you as is. Thanks. |