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| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil K40Y9 PIO sounds pretty good right out of the box and should improve within 10-20 hours. FT-3 teflon takes much longer to break-in and can be irritating until it does. I've had good luck paralleling K40 & FT-3; this seems to improve bass defin... | |
| Supratek Preamp. and 6SN7's impressions I recently went through similar 6SN7 rolling comparing early 1951 Sylvania WGT, RCA Gray Glass GT, Raytheon GT, Russian 1578/6N8S, and recent production EH. EH was only surpassed by Russian and Raytheon, and not by much. EH is very good indeed. | |
| Top resistors To address Kirkus's point that low-noise resistors make less difference in low-current locations, I just finished installing TX2575 at grid of amplifier tube in my phono preamp, and also at ingress of first gain stage to form standard 47K cartridg... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Did anyone try Duelund graphite resistors in their xover? These look interesting. | |
| Roger Waters Amused to Death LP what is it worth$ Roger Water's militant pacifism can become tiresome. But The Ballad of Bill Hubbard is quite moving. There are some interesting Q-sound effects on this album. Another option is The Columbia gold SBM CD, which sounds pretty good. | |
| Roger Waters Amused to Death LP what is it worth$ Kgturner, If you have access to a decent used record store you may stumble on this album and many other "collectibles" for a fraction of this price. | |
| Electro-Harmonix 6H30pi Gold vs Sovtek 6H30pi eb Jim McShane sells the Sovteks; they worked out nicely in my VK75SE as compared to DR. | |
| Top resistors Mr. Y: You can order direct from manufacturer Texas Components or perhaps from Michael Percy (though I do not see them in his catalog.) I do not know about Audionote tantalum, except that someone I know with a good system said they were bass heavy... | |
| Top resistors Mr. R: Thanks, I will have to try more NOS. Of the lot that I tried, I rank Russian 6N8S tops, followed closely by Raytheon GT, followed by EH. All three have top-to-bottom continuousness, good bass authority, big dynamic envelop, spaciousness, an... | |
| Top resistors IME Riken carbon-film resistors obscure detail relative to Caddock MK132(warm but resolving) and nude TX2575(even more resolving, but without etch or coldness.) Nude TX2352 is identical to nude Vishay S102. The higher-spec nude TX2575 has no Visha... | |
| XLR Connector Comparison There are those who resist using XLRs altogether owing to eddy current effect associated with large metal housings. A plastic RCA like Eichmann may sound good because of minimal metal. Perhaps the content of the metal jackets has an effect as well. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Some theorize that the great sound of some vintages gears may owe to continuing break-in of output transformers over many decades. | |
| Adding Balanced Outputs to your amp? Adding XLR inputs pin-mapped to existing RCA connectors, adds absolutely nothing other than diversity of connectors. To enjoy the benefits of balanced cabling you would have to add internal coupling transformers or additional circuitry to split ph... | |
| What makes up an In the spirit of this question I much enjoyed TAS September issue, in which HP interviews Lyric HiFi's 85 year old owner Mike Kay on the evolution of hi-end retailing since the golden age of the 60s. Kay is a grand curmudgeon who deplores what cus... | |
| Top resistors To obtain more power handling, TC offers the nude(unencased) TX2352 or TX2575 in duo- and triple-pack configurations. These are multiple resistors factory-soldered in series on a short foundation with one lead at each end. This is an expensive pro... |