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| Amp for Gallo Ref 3.1 and Modwright swl 9.0se? Since you listen to loud electronic and hip-hop music, I suggest that you stretch your budget to buy a good 200W per channel amp.Dallo 3.1s demand lots of current to deliver deep, powerful bass.I have had excellent results with Parasound. McIntosh... | |
| SET amp suggestions 1000$ or Integrated 2500$ Tpreaves, using a 1K Watt amplifier at less than one Watt is a total waste, because the amp will be playing in the crossover distortion region.The first watt of a any tube amplifier is its best Watt. Except for pure Class A SS amps, the first Watt... | |
| Cleaning AC plugs, receptacles and other contacts HiFiTime, ProGold (now Deoxit Gold G5) does not have metal particles, it is a proprietary deoxidant for plated contacts.Use it sparingly and clean any excess with cotton swabs or sponge-tipped makeup swabs.Fmpnd, Deoxit Gold GN5 (notice the extra ... | |
| Hooking up two Topaz Isolation trans. in series? In fact, with two transformers in series, you would get slightley less power (1-2%), due to the iron losses of the second transformer. There is no free lunch in Mother Nature.You will get more isolation, but ALL transformers add slight distortions... | |
| Help wanted. My NHT M00-S00s are whistlingI Swampwalker, Almarg's suggestions are excellent, specially the shorted RCA inputs. You can quickly rig shorted ICs by wrapping any thin copper wire (telephone wire, cable TV center wire, a spare piece of network wire, even solder) around the RCA o... | |
| 6SN7 tubes AFC, the 845 output tubes require a very high drive voltage (more than 200V peak-to-peak), in order to reach full power, therefore I assume that your amp must use 6sn7GTA or GTB, which can be operated at higher plate voltages.Older 6SN7 tubes will... | |
| Tools to measure in room response I use a portable phonic PPA3 RTA and achieve consistently good results.Its built-in microphone is calibrated, you can store the data in your computer through an USB port and calculate the average of several room response graphs (just like John Atk... | |
| Cary Audio Cad 805 AE tube rolling Hi Micheler, I suggest that you ask Cary. I assume that the switch changes bias accordingly, but one can never be too cautious. | |
| Tools to measure in room response K, you have received good advice so far.I would like to add that the most musical in-room response is not a straight line in the treble range. Most listeners perceive a flat treble in-room response as bright-sounding.A gradual roll-off starting ar... | |
| Cary Audio Cad 805 AE tube rolling Michele, thanks for sharing your tube-rolling experience.If I understand you question correctly, yes, tube amps must be used with a specific output tube to sound their best, however, the switch that Carry provides probably changes a few electrical... | |
| Cary Audio Cad 805 AE tube rolling Michele, you may want to read this thread about the latest 300B:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1240592110I see that you did not like three slightly bright 6SN7 variants.You may want to try Sylvania JAN 6SN7WGTA brown base as dri... | |
| Heard McIntosh 275 For The First Time. Ryder, the Mc275 will sound much, much better when fitted with a factory-matched quad of Gold Lion KT88 reissue tubes (probably the best KT-88 version ever made) and NOS input/driver tubes.NOS 12AT7s are still affordable. The Mc275 uses four of th... | |
| Audio Research Amp Shootout I could not help noticing that in this thread, the 100.2 fans happen to own lean-sounding speakers: Triangle, Dynaudio and Merlin TSM with no BAM module.Amps base on Tripath technology must implement a 12 db/octave treble cut filter at the output,... | |
| Consonance Cyber 800/845 Valve amps; how good? Dan, 845 and 211 have diferent specs in terms of output transformer impedance, high voltage power supply, bias supply and plate current.An 845 to 211 conversion is not trivial and a very dangerous project, due to the extremely high voltages inside... | |
| ARC = What are the Golden Amps The Classic 60 sounds fine, but its input stage uses FETs. Eventually one hears the FET sound and may experience listening fatigue. I prefer ARC's all-tube amps, the Golden Oldies.Also, the Classic 60 is under-powered to properly drive Wilson spea... |