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| Bowers and Wilkerson B&W 802 D3: an impolite Brit? B&W are British speakers made for American consumer that built similar to American cars: Big, hard to handle and drive and consume lots of fuel and oil. | |
| Vintage tube amp resurrection with Variac? With tube rectifier things get simpler because tube rectifiers reach operational voltage slow enough to catch problem with or even without variac.With variac set to operational voltage and voltmeters attached to the bias pots or resistors and one ... | |
| Safety of Older Electronics Me too. I'm in mid-40's and can't cope with loss of energy. My "mid-aged equipment" must be used daily otherwise -- age, doctors, RX really really sucks and costs lots of money... Gotta run to play some volleyball after sitting in office. I always... | |
| How important is the amp? Simple: If your amp mates well with your speakers, than you can possibly change it when you change speakers to find better match. | |
| Safety of Older Electronics O_holter, if you work daily or working out, you will feel substantially different than if you're daily watching TV and sitting in front of PC. It speaks for itself.Cliche! | |
| Power Cable Construction Technique It's quick simple and easy. Please note that Take Five audio also purchases their wires in bulk from the primary manufacturer or distributor. If you do same, you'll save.WARNING:DO NOT attempt any of the assemblies detailed below unless you are an... | |
| Bowers and Wilkerson B&W 802 D3: an impolite Brit? B&W speakers never had bass bellow 50hz. It's just another Bose or JBL where you can find one or two models that are actually OK. | |
| Tube Watts vs. Solid State Watts - Any credence? well some of them isn't most of them. it's nature of tubes and output transformers. they're weak when impedance of speaker goes down on low frequencies. | |
| Tube Watts vs. Solid State Watts - Any credence? well some of them isn't most of them. it's nature of tubes and output transformers. they're weak when impedance of speaker goes down on low frequencies. | |
| Cadillac of Turntables? Taters, Cadillac is extremely complicated to repair.Those Mitsubishi vertical and linear tracking turntables are probably Cadillacs or Ferraries | |
| Turntable set up- How easy is it 10-10-15: PapermillMy advice is to have a competent professional perform the initial setup. Learn how to do it. Future adjustments can then be done by you. Isn't it's just simpler to go youtube instead? | |
| Tube Watts vs. Solid State Watts - Any credence? tube amps have no bass hence it's power mostly applied towards mids and highs while the solid state amps go full range. 70w of tube amp power will scream out louder on mids and highs, while same of solid state will cover full range and will have s... | |
| Turntable issue I would agree after I test the 'suspects'. swapping tubes or cleaning sockets inside the box or swapping cartridge. Not too many unknown left so far... | |
| Turntable issue Now you are down to following suspects:1. tubes2. cartridge | |
| Safety of Older Electronics Vintage solid state electronics that haven't been shelved or garaged, used regularly will last longer than ones unused. Transistor life is endless it spans up to 60,000 hours if USED regularly which is approximately a lifetime or longer. As to DC ... |