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| Harbeth Not what you asked...anyway here it goes:I believe the Philarmonia will drive happily a pair of Harbeths and will sound much better than most SS amps.The TSM is a high-transparency, uber-soundstage speaker.Harbeths are more about the musical flow,... | |
| MC275 in Mono, but which way? Great amplifier! I wish I had not sold mine.It is very difficult to bi-amp with different amplifiers and achieve a coherent sound. I have never managed to do it properly, even with matched gain amps. Each amp has its own speed and sound signature.... | |
| Upgrade bug has hit, interested in Pass Labs Amps Helllo Tmesselt.Speakers are highly dependent on room acoustics, placement AND amplification. Speakers demand proper matching to an amplifier, due to widely varying driver impedance curves, sensitivity, reactance and bass damping. E.g, planar spea... | |
| Causes of CD player skipping? I found the correct grease.Search for CDM9 grease on eBay.Good luck | |
| Installed Wrong Tube 12AX& instead of 12 AT7 Rodman, negative feedback (mandatory in a push-pull pentode amp) will offset 90 to 95% of the transcoductance delta.You are 100% correct regarding 12a_7 tubes in zero-feedback SET amps. These must be matched if you want a central stereo image. | |
| Experience with FREDs in a tube amp PS FREDs and Schottky diodes will mostly clean up the treble.If you are looking for more transparency and dynamics, I suggest that you upgrade the amplifier coupling caps.A few suggestions:Low cost: Auricaps & HovlandMedium cost: Mundorf Silver/o... | |
| Audio Aero Prima CDP Try powering it down for 24 hours. Sometimes this resets any software errors. | |
| IEC inlet socket Or Heatshrink tubing... | |
| How much home AC voltage variance is too much? I would say you are pretty lucky!Your household voltage iss stable and not really high.Enjoy the music! | |
| OPamps still inferior to discrete circuits? HI.I replaced the original OPA 627 opamps in my ASR Emmiter amplifier with Burson discrete opamps. The improvements were major and all across the board: clean, more tuneful bass, amazing midrange purity, clean treble, more dynamics, a deep and wid... | |
| Causes of CD player skipping? BEWARE: CD player gears and the plastic sliders that run atop the rails are made of nylon or Delrin.DO NOT use regular household oil, 3 in 1, WD40 or any oil with solvents on plastic gears/sliders. WD40 has paraffin in its formula and will leave a... | |
| Preamplifier power supply Dazzdax, just for the sake of friendly discussion, the purpose of a preamp is to present a proper load to the source(s), switch inputs, adjust volume and drive properly the amplifier.A resistive passive preamp is basically made of a 10 K ohms pote... | |
| Subdued Voices - Phase problem? The Stereophile Test CD has two phase test tracks that will allow you to diagnose any phase issues. I have seen speaker pairs with one driver wired out of phase.Good luck | |
| Preamplifier power supply I am a firm believer in over-specified power supplies in audio, for several reasons:Large transformers tend to have high primary inductance, this acts as a RF filter, no garbage in, no garbage out.An over-specified transformer will not distort or ... | |
| Ground Loop Hum Subwoofers often generate ground/hum loops. To fix it, only one component in your system should be grounded through the AC cable. The remaining ones should float through 3 prong to 2 AC adapters, otherwise there will be a ground loop.For safety re... |