bob_bundus
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| Noise From New Tubes Brad since dusting was beneficial, you might benefit further by actually cleaning those contacts (both the tubes & sockets) with pipe cleaner(s) dipped in Kontact or Audioquest Ultraconnect.Regarding Clueless's dissertation: I think he needs t... | |
| Power cords for Ayre One of my amps is an Ayre V3: I've experienced good results with Synergistic's best AC cord the Synergistic Research Designer Reference Squared. Despite the V3's integral Ayre conditioner, I liked it better plugged into a high curent conditioner t... | |
| Doing your own cartridge setup http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1020272609&read&3&4& | |
| Where to buy reversed polarity AC cords? http://www.vansevers.com/ | |
| VTL TL2.5preamp worth buying? I concur with Alex: the 2.5 was noisy & microphonic, but then so was the 5.5 for that matter. Typical for tubes, but still might be worth a try; some people do like these pre's. | |
| Turntable Hmmmmm yes due to the very high gain of phono stages you'll always hear some background thermal noise (hisssssss) but at typical listening levels it's buried well below music signal | |
| What's the benefit of balanced tonearm cables? A phono cartridge is by nature of the design a balanced source to begin with. If you're lucky enough to have a phono stage with balanced inputs then by all means do take advantage! The benefit over unbalanced is reduction in hum & noise pickup... | |
| What does this mean? well almost right---shields are terminated at the signal-originating end only to prevent ground loops. If terminated at both ends the shielding effect is degraded significantly. | |
| How to clean RCA inputs and outputs? (1) do NOT use an eraser. That will remove plating; that's much too abrasive.(2) Pick a nice non-residue contact cleaner such as Kontact or Audioquest Ultraconnect. (3) Get some pipe cleaners & cut into thirds. Did the pipe cleaner into the so... | |
| Know anybody who mods analog r2r tape machines? experiment with power line conditioning & quality interconnects before you go inside; you may not even need to. | |
| What does this mean? Euro balanced interfaces sometimes use RCA's; 1 cable for inverting & another cable for non-inverting. Take a look at an Electrocompaniet component for an example of this approach. | |
| Balance control vs. Speaker placement Brian have you swapped around your source component interconnects so as to reverese Left & Right channels at various points along the signal path? You might have a marginal connection or cable, or even a component that's not within balance. | |
| Need newbie explanation on grounding components. Darryl the hum-hunting game is basically a process of elimination. Begin with your amp (or receiver, or integrated) plugged into AC with speakers only connected, no input cables connected yet. If clean, then next add the preamp only, no AC connect... | |
| Outlet shoot out there's also a new cryo treated outlet from Virtual Dynamics which I'm curious about.Myself I went from stock, to Hubbel, to the Wattagate 381, with improvement in each step-up. Agree that it would be really interesting to compare these to Ultimat... | |
| "Search Option" suggestion for AudioGon well yes we have gone off on a tangent or two here (sorry Jewel) but this is what normally happens in these threads so that's OK. Yes you can search by membername, but only within the sales listings. As Perfect notes, you can click on the poster's... |