bicycle_man
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| Tube amplifier bad caps You have probably NOT ruined the tubes because of this, unless one of the conditions below occurs. If your tubes are driven into oscillation over an extended period, then I would worry. Also, if your tube bias circuit goes bad somewhere and the tu... | |
| Top Ten Speakers of All Time? Quad ESL-63 USA Monitors; Swan (forgot model, but circa 1989); Wilson Watt/Puppy. | |
| Best of the 80's &90's Amps & Preamps How about cj's pv8 and pv9 preamps? Also Electrocompaniet (EC-1, I think). And, not to forget, the Convergent Audio Technologies SL-1. | |
| Anyone have experience with NOS 6gh8's? By the way, the Bugle Boy's are ecf82. They actually sound nice -- very musical, not technical, nor harsh. They don't sound grainy, but a slight bit veiled. Let's see when the tubes break in; I have only run them for a few hours. I must say that I... | |
| Anybody have experience with NOS 6gh8/6gh8a's? Sorry, wrong forum...I will re-post the amp forum. | |
| Shorting plugs.... O.k. Power cords can pick up rf, depending on the length of the cable and wavelength of the rf. In others words, yes, I agree. That is why cables are generally shielded. That is also why ferrite rings are put around cables (as I described earlier ... | |
| Shorting plugs.... I think the idea behind shorting plugs is that open ended inputs pick up stray rf interference and by shorting the inputs you shunt this to ground. Additionally, if left open the interference picked up can enter your active channels through cross-... | |
| power line conditioners... Al,Don't worry, I thought there was nothing at all derogatory about your post.I think that audio designers back then had a different philosophy and set of priorities in mind than those of today. The power supply of the st70 is simple and not very ... | |
| power line conditioners... Thanks for the replies! Very interesting information. And, it seems very reasonable about the hf hash being filtered out.Kennyt, perhaps because the power supply in my st70 is the original the quad filtering cap is so far gone that filtering out g... | |
| Vintage Gear in NYC? Too bad about Stereo Exchange not being in the used business anymore. Back in the day you could find tons of used great equipment there! C'est la vie! The NYC scene for used audio (and electronic parts -- remember the old Canal Street, you used to... |