decooney
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| Initial disappointment with 1st set of “expensive’ IC’s... @jl1ny+1 what paulcreed said. Those who’ve owned several pairs of different Cardas ICs over decades, know. The comments about movement are spot on too. Once I tried a backwards test experiment, coiled up and re-boxed a pair of my better well-used ... | |
| Solid state amplifiers and sound stage, especially front to back "depth" The term "voicing" tends to carry over more from Guitar amp designers and modders looking for particular tones, overtones, and/or feedback designed into the circuit looking to achieve a particular sound result.With professional and home audio, it ... | |
| Solid state amplifiers and sound stage, especially front to back "depth" @yogiboy Many moons ago a had a Sansui TU-919 tuner. It was one of the best tuners that I’ve owned!Cool. I was a big Sansui amp and tuner fan too, had the AU/TU717 decades ago, held on to my TU-9900 FM tuner ’til a year ago. Replaced it with a mod... | |
| Anyone own 200iq and prefer kt150 over kt88 I've found KT150s perform their best in amps truly designed to run them natively at their optimum operating rage. My current mono KT150 amps run higher plate voltage, with 25% larger transformers, as compared to all of my prior amps with EL34, KT... | |
| Can’t use any other tube??!!? No, can’t use just any 12AU7 in the "center" spot on that amp, as previously noted. A few years back a member over at AA was trying the same and learned this directly from rogue "MUST be low noise. It doesn’t have to be an ECC802s - but what ever ... | |
| Initial disappointment with 1st set of “expensive’ IC’s... @dletch2Yes, [pF] picofarad per/foot standard measurement is what I was referring to. A typical 3.0 ft interconnect cable on the higher side at 26pF per foot results close to 78pF in total, and an 8ft 26pF interconnect would be closer to a few hun... | |
| Initial disappointment with 1st set of “expensive’ IC’s... @dletch2 "Interconnects are usually a few 100 pF tops."What interconnect cables are you referring to?16pF - 26pF max capacitance is the range for many of the IC cables I've owned or evaluated for manufacturers over the past two decades. Includes C... | |
| Initial disappointment with 1st set of “expensive’ IC’s... @dletch2So if the Cardas wire is so good and superior, why does it need an authenticity card? Shouldn’t it be obvious? :-)"Superior", that’s up to your ears. No, not "obvious" to an untrained eye and unknowing buyer. It’s an actual serial numbered... | |
| Initial disappointment with 1st set of “expensive’ IC’s... @jl1ny, 25+ year Cardas cable owner of several generations. None of my brand new (coiled-up-in box or bag with mechanical tension) Interconnects sounded good at first, ever. Most sounded kinda strange new. Same situation with my better Cardas and ... | |
| Integrated amp recommendations for harbeth 30.2 XD Not 30.2, yet I heard the 40.1s with two different Cary and CJ tube amps, in the 50w triode and 100w ultralinear range, larger transformers. Sounded really nice in the low to mid-volume range, not lacking anything really except maybe super fast s... | |
| Integrated amp recommendations for harbeth 30.2 XD @jjss49 "on his user forum, any attempt at discussing better or worse amplification for his speakers are shut down by him with an iron fist, as he personally moderates the discussion forum -- with the rationale that the user forum is about users d... | |
| What about grannyring Helix interconnect cables and Helix power cords? @grannyring thanks for the offer. I'm winding down on my collection and duplicates myself. Last pair of my own going up for sale now. Maybe someone can take advantage of these unique ICs. | |
| What about grannyring Helix interconnect cables and Helix power cords? @grannyring Just so you know I never sold these here on the Gon except for a couple of my personal sets that were extra and lying around. Other than that I only made a couple of these cables for audio friends. I am no longer making cables. Never s... | |
| AVA Van Alstine SET 400 amplifier -- burn in? @wjob I have two of the AVA SET amps - I think they do settle in a bit with break in, but both sounded great out of the box.Before sending them out, I wonder if AVA leaves them powered on for say 48-72hrs, re-checks specs and re-adjusts bias if re... | |
| Considering the Parasound A23+ amplifier Yep, trying a few N7 tubes in the preamp, and some IC changes w/b a worthy trial towards keeping that XA25! |