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| Quad ESL Cap mods HII have Auricaps and Mundorf PP caps in my tube amps (not the same application, I know). I prefer Mundorf Supreme to Auricaps IMS.Mundorf caps are metalized polypropilene.Munforf silver and oil is a significant step forward in transparency as com... | |
| Help Finding my system bright... I suggest that you ask this question at a PC sound forum. There are some very knowledgeable guys there. I have read that Vista and Itunes downsample by default. Due to continuous virus atacks and technical problems I am no longer playing in Micros... | |
| Autoformer versus Transformer Passives? I have spoken with Dave several times and made a few autoformer preamps for friends, using his and Pieter's autoformers.Transformer passives have more bass distortion as compared to autoformers. This is easy to confirm: look up the low frequency r... | |
| McIntosh Tube Amps, How Durable are xformers I have never heard of a Mac transformer failing...and I have been in this hobby for 35 years.If anything is wrong with your amplifier, Audio Classics can fix it and I recall a McIntosh specialized tech that posts frequently on the McIntosh forum a... | |
| To Bridge Or Not To Bridge Hey guys, not so fast!A bridged amp is effectively two amps wired in series, one amp has inverted phase, so each amp is half of a bridged push-pull "composite amp". This doubles the available output voltage, NOT the current. Since Power = V square... | |
| Help Finding my system bright... Macd, given that your other components are not thin-sounding, I would suspect a computer-driven digital source (if that's the case) with Windows or Mac OS doing their usual tantrums below the table, like downsampling by default all music files to ... | |
| Quad ESL Cap mods William, I have no experience with Mundorf Tube caps, because Tube caps are designed for high voltage tube gear power supplies, not coupling.Regarding Face's Mundorf cap, it is a great choice if the original cap is rated for 250 Volts or less, how... | |
| Help Finding my system bright... Macd, what do you use for a digital source ? | |
| Crossover component upgrade, DUELUND???? Sherod, another explanation for what you are hearing is that in general Hovland caps have a slightly forward midrange. This may be perfect in the right system or could be a tweak opportunity, if the system's midrange bites. | |
| Quad ESL Cap mods I believe it is a coupling cap, acting as a high-pass filter (filters out the deep bass), therefore it is very important for sound quality.220uF in film caps will be very costly and occupy a lot of space, about the size of four soda cans. The leas... | |
| Opinions on vintage cj amps and Teflon cap mods Hi Phaelon, thanks for your kind words.I really can not answer your doubts, having no experience with your particular model CJ amp, however, if you like and enjoy your system as it is today, the upgrade will certainly be an incremental improvement... | |
| My MC275 has a clueless sound-change... Is the top shelf made of glass ?That coud explain your desscription of the changes. | |
| Power Plant Premier making sound worse? Drubin, in a well-adjusted high end system, the difference between pure copper, gold and nickel plated outlets is abysmal.I write from experience, because I have four outlets behind my system and can easily test/demo the differences.Nickel adds a ... | |
| mcintosh amps any one can explain impedance taps Almarg, your post is correct regarding tube amps, however Majic's amp is solid state. McIntosh uses autoformers on their top solid state amps, so it is a different ballgame.I found out that experimenting is the best option with a Mac Mc402, for ex... | |
| Question on ASR Emitter II Exclusive Battery Suteetat, I forgot to mention that the XLR input is an option, an extra input board that converts the balanced signal to single-ended, because the preamp's input is single-ended.I would not hold this against ASR, because the sound quality beats ma... |