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| Covering silver wire for use as a speaker cable Reference Audio Mods has it. Bend back the tip to make a tight curve with a smooth point and snake it through. If you want to send several strands together through a single sleeve, wrap the tips tightly in teflon tape. Be forewarned that jewelers ... | |
| Covering silver wire for use as a speaker cable If the wire is bare, pass it through polyurethane and let it dry & cure hanging overnight. Then snake each strand through a long 2mm cotton sleeve and make a loose litz braid of all strands. Soak a 1" band of ERS cloth in Goop cement and wrap ... | |
| What do you see as the downside of tubes? Jafox, from your comments and thorough review of Aria and Counterpoint, it would appear that these products owe their distinction primarily to tube power supplies. The flexibility of Aria in accommodating extensive rolling of tube families may als... | |
| What do you see as the downside of tubes? Jafox, the advantage you hear with Aria may owe more to TX2575 resistors than to tube vs. SS paradigm. Lately to get a better grip on the tube vs. SS debate I've been all out modifying a SS ARC PH-2 in parallel with an Atma-Sphere MP-1 phono secti... | |
| Modification Nightmares The time it takes to perform mods can be significant, as is the cost of premium piece parts. I envy the pros who can do this work well at a profit. As an amateur modder with limited time to give to the hobby, the only way for me to justify time sp... | |
| The Bad Plus - where to start? Ditto "Vistas", and for an equally catchy but higher-browed treatment, try James Carter/Cyrus Chestnut/Ali Jackson/Reginald Veal "Gold Sounds", which is prog jazz covers of Pavement songs. | |
| New Aluminum Platter from VPI Johnbrown, That is a good experiment, and one that may be worth continuing with a DC motor or other AC motors to compare to Hurst. The question remains as to whether there are other AC motors that behave any better than Hurst w/r to cogging. Anoth... | |
| New Aluminum Platter from VPI Hi Bob, I'll add that thread drive and tape drive are both somewhat tweaky-- requiring correct selection of threads, knotting & splicing techniques, and precise tensioning. They are not plug-and-play like the soft rubber belt. My guess is that... | |
| New Aluminum Platter from VPI Johnbrown, What custom pulley are you talking about? Having experimented at length with custom pulleys, I can report that some pulley designs add more problems than they solve. And there is nothing wrong with the Hurst motor-- unless you are dismi... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil As the thread moves into the rarefied air of CAST, it would helpful for Duelund Coherant Audio to share some specific models of commercial loudspeakers that use CAST. This would give more DIYers and audiophiles the opportunity to hear these caps a... | |
| Useful Life of PreAmp Tubes. Elevick, It's difficult to generalize, as the life of a vacuum tube is determined by plate voltage and bias applied in situ. In my system the same model of 6SN7 tube can last 2k hours in one component, and up to 15k hours in another. | |
| Retubing power amp Ditto Samujohn's referal to Jim McShane, from whom I've purchased Tung Sol reissue 6SN7 & 6V6, and Sovtek 6H30pi for VK75SE. NOS 6H30-DR are NOT worth the $$$. Buy 6C33C-B in bulk from cheap eBay Eastern European sources. | |
| Useful Life of PreAmp Tubes. As best I recollect VK5i does not have a stand-by switch. In any case, I always powered off when not in use for more than several hours. Victor at BAT will likely respond to a direct query. | |
| Useful Life of PreAmp Tubes. I retubed VK5i about every 2k hours and always heard improvement. Preamp tubes may survive for 10k hours, but not without sonic degradation. | |
| what is the quietest air pump for my ET-2 ? Even pumps marketed as whisper quiet typically have >30db noise. I don't know what pressure/flow rate the ET arm requires, but but if you are getting by with a low pressure pump, there is no reason to add the complexity, condensation issues, an... |