bdp24
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| Budget Tube Amp (newbie) Rob, one way to go is to get the best power amp your money will buy, and put a passive "pre" in front of it. If your source output impedances are low enough, their output voltage high enough, your inter-connects short enough (more specifically, th... | |
| Crystal Gayle-EveAnna Manley Oh, I believe ya Al, I’m just trying to wrap my head around the fact. And EveAnna was his fifth! Good for David (thought he did die relatively young, didn’t he? ;-). | |
| Budget Tube Amp (newbie) Though I think a good ss amp would be better for the Advents, if you insist on a tube one, and you're patient, you can get yourself a much better amp than a Dynaco Stereo 70, for around the same price. I've had a stock ST70, a modified one (ala Fr... | |
| Crystal Gayle-EveAnna Manley @almarg, EveAnna was David's wife? Um, that's.....odd ;-). So, when he left the U.S. he was leaving her too? She's a tattoo, piercings, and purple hair kinda chick, and looks younger than Luke. I coulda sworn! | |
| Vinyl “Pops & Clicks” eliminators @bpoletti, that Aries 1 table is a good one (I have the non-extended version myself), and the Delrin top layer of it's platter may be partly responsible for the reduction in noise (unless that's the same table the old cartridge was on). Delrin is ... | |
| Capacitors for HP filters in tube amps recommendations? Thanks for coming to my aid! I’d still be floundering around if you hadn’t, ’cause I haven’t heard back from Modjeski. I figured he might have the appropriate caps in his parts bins, but I think he uses polyester caps in his amps. | |
| Crystal Gayle-EveAnna Manley In the mid-90’s I went to a small 16/24 track studio in L.A. for a session, and was surprised to see a Manley faceplate in the outboard gear rack (it was a mic pre-amp, or limiter, or equalizer, I don’t remember). In the early-90’s, David separate... | |
| Capacitors for HP filters in tube amps recommendations? I'll be putting just a pair of .01uF (10nF) caps (.02uF apparently isn't available) on each RCA jack, so those short leads will be long enough. I wasn't able to find any 1% polystyrene .01uf or .02uF caps. I'm going to research NPo/CoG (with which... | |
| Capacitors for HP filters in tube amps recommendations? @pragmasi, I took a look at the product description of the B4 cross-over (one of which I own) on the First Watt website, and in it Nelson Pass mentions he used Wima Polypropylene film caps in all the filters. If they’re good enough for Nelson........ | |
| Adding another ARC AMP to Tympani - D-400 or 2x 100.2 (SS) ..or 2x D-150 (tube) ?? My first great loudspeaker was the original Tympani T-I, bought in 1973. I now have a pair of Tympani T-IVa, the final version of the speaker. I bought them knowing the outboard cross-overs had been gutted (all that is left are the chassis, no int... | |
| Capacitors for HP filters in tube amps recommendations? I noticed that too. There are some cap vendors who match them in pairs, and Parts Connexion offers hand picked caps that are 1/2 or 1/4 of the factory tolerance figure, but they sell only "audiophile" brands. I think Michael Percy offers the polys... | |
| Adding another ARC AMP to Tympani - D-400 or 2x 100.2 (SS) ..or 2x D-150 (tube) ?? The T-ID has 3 panels per side, so how do you end up with 6 + 4?The x/o between the midrange driver and the tweeter is almost always left as is, though some fanatics replace the stock parts with boutique ones of the same value. Separating the mid ... | |
| Has anyone done any business with Quads Unlimited lately??? Wow, what a ridiculous and reprehensible attitude and statement. He’s not just financially bankrupt, but ethically and morally as well. Shame on him! | |
| Capacitors for HP filters in tube amps recommendations? Excellent @pragmasi, exactly the kind of information I was hoping for! And lots of it!! Pure ee considerations and concerns, very much aligned with the kind of thinking that went into the design of the amps. No intent or desire to disparage audiop... | |
| Audio Kinesis Swarm Subwoofer Awarded 2019 Golden Ear Award by Robert E. Greene @millercarbon, I believe @contussi feels that since one can buy and use 4 subs without necessarily needing to buy the Audiokinesis Swarm system, why is it being viewed as so remarkable? What he’s missing is that while a more advanced hobbiest may ... |