brianhutch
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| First Watt SIT-3 proper speaker matches My friend Ron who owns a large variety of mostly vintage Hi End equipment has recently bought a SIT-3 and to date after trying multiple combinations at home remains unimpressed.He brought it around to my place and we tried it with my home built ve... | |
| Excellent MM phono stage w/ capacitance loading? Why not contact Kevin and get him to install a switch and capacitors of your choice in your K+K.Its not a big deal to do this and it will save you a lot of money. | |
| If you wanted to impress someone, which track? Man in the long black coat.Bob Dylan | |
| Phono stage for tube system - recommendations? A couple of years ago I owned an xono and built a first generation K+K[no longer available]I played them in my system side by side as my table had two arms.It was close but to my ears in my system I preferred the K+K and I sold the Pass.I decided ... | |
| Nottingham Wave Mechanic Anybody using this unit I used the wave mechanic supplied with my Dais for several years and thought it was not silent from day one.Although I did compare the table with the speed control and without and prefered the sound with the mechanic in place.When it blew a fuse s... | |
| Nottingham Wave Mechanic Anybody using this unit I used the wave mechanic supplied with my Dais for several years and thought it was not totaly silent from day one. I did compare the table with the speed control and direct and prefered the sound with the mechanic in place.When it blew a fuse sev... | |
| What do you see as the downside of tubes? Just a little more on integrating the living voice avatars into the home system.I tried my old pair of vtl 225,s on the Avatars with great results lots of control and as I move the speakers around in the room searching for the perfect placement I ... | |
| What do you see as the downside of tubes? I recently obtained on audiogon a Kt66 SET Sophia integrated amp just for fun and installed it in my system for a trial period driving Quad 989,s.It clearly was not in triode capable of driving to high volumes but sounded terrific doing the relaxe... | |
| K&K any comments? There is such a lot of different components changed in one shot it would be difficult to say what caused the improvements.Tube type,Audio note resistors,Internal Wire type,Transformers,Cardas parafeed caps versus Kimber,Direct to power amp connect... | |
| K&K any comments? A few years ago I built a two chassis dual mono K+K first generation phono stage with the seperate channel boards and used S+B step up tranformers.Previous to this I had been using a Pass x ono.I kept the Pass for over a year before deciding it wa... | |
| MM Tube Phono for $1000 There is a jj tube pre with phono mm+mc in phono pre.s just now. The seller is user name bigtube its $750ish and you will be able to fund 50% at least by selling your xformers.These things are way underated and little advertised but are kick ass a... | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. Many of us vinyl spinners have been in the hi fi hobby for many years and had large album collections before the silver disc.Most have tried digital and many converted but many just run both formats and try to buy premium vinyl and use digital to ... | |
| Benz LP and SUT's... Hi DonNo problems using the ph1 loading connectors as they load across the inputs which will be your transformers secondary or output windings,and a chat with either Kevin or John is never lost time.Kevin sells a very high quality adjustable loadi... | |
| Benz LP and SUT's... Merry Xmas DonArtemizlabs uses a sowter transformer and it looks from the drawing that the primary and secondary turns ratios are non adjustable on your preamp and the loading of the cartridge is done by placing a resistor across the secondary win... | |
| Preamplifier power supply I think first you have to seperate the tube amps from the transistor units as they have very different requirements.First they need a stable B+ high voltage supply usualy upwards of 240volts for a preamp and a seperate low voltage supply for the h... |