dgarretson
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| ARC VT-100 mk1 or BAT VK-60? j bailey,While autobias does make VK tube amps simpler to live with, they still require warm up to sound their best. I don't think autobias extends tube life much, particularly in comparison to the ARC. The 6C33C-B power tubes in the VK-series deg... | |
| DIY clock upgrade? Buy the service manual from Sony at 800-488-7669 & ID the numeric location for the clock oscillator & also the clock speed. If it's like the the SCD-1/777ES it's a 45Mhz clock. Then you'd need to tap a power source inside the chassis at a ... | |
| Good sounding, small center speaker Merlin TSM-MX is relatively compact & is very clear with dialog-- my key criterion for CC. | |
| Tannoy Westminster Royal HE These were Cary 2A3SE monoblocks. It surprised me that they were able to develop big bass with the Churchhills (suggesting that the 3W amps were up to the job) and yet the whole presentation was discontinuous and not very musical. It was a long ti... | |
| Tannoy Westminster Royal HE It's a very small data point, but about five years back I took some 2A3 monoblocks into a dealer showroom to qualify the Churchills for SET amplification. They sounded anemic--at least on 3W. In addition to the lack of dynamics in this less-than-o... | |
| Best short-lived band? Rain Tree CrowAcetoneMedicine | |
| Capacitors for BAT VK-60 I recently replaced the stock Belden intrachassis ICs that connect XLR inputs to the PCB in the VK75SE. I substituted 2' of Audio Consulting 24awg silver wire in cotton sleeves in a three-twist, with a 1" band of ERS cloth glued around both ends. ... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Pauly,The flywheel effect of the platter on that cutting lathe would be negligible compared to the 75kg/cm torque generated by the motor. From pictures on the net it's evident that a really decent cutting lathe like the Neumann has a much stronger... | |
| Your 5 Fav Rock Concerts And how could I forget:--Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Review, New Haven, CT; 1975 | |
| Your 5 Fav Rock Concerts Those are some very good ones.-Steppenwolf, Princeton, NJ; 1969-The Who, Saratoga Springs, NY; July, 1970-Miles Davis, Princeton, NJ; 1972-The Kinks, Waterbury, CT; 1974-Roxy Music, Radio City Music Hall, NYC; 2003 | |
| How to remove a 'press fit' steel ball bearing? In automotive applications it usually takes some serious heat from an oxycetelene torch to release frozen studs and pressed fittings-- certainly more than butane or map gas. If the spindle is all metal you might get away with it.The noninverted VP... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option "A given motor speed and torque in the rim drive system may have a range of platter weight that works best with that given motor. Then again, it could be testament to how well these heavier platters with mylar belts actually work."I'd like to hear... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Dan_ed,Somewhere in this thread it's reported that in testing, Verus rim drive produced the greatest improvement in combination with the lightest Teres platter. It would seem that with rim drive (as with idler drive), high platter mass might actua... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Jean,I think I understand your comparison of idler drive to belt drive, but I'm lost in your comparison of idler to Verus rim drive.I would think the comparison of rim drive to idler drive boils down to the relative compliance of the interface bet... | |
| Merlin Fan's-What VSM is best bang for buck???? Can't understand from your writing if near-field listening is or is not desireable for you. In any case, the VSM wants at least 9' to the listening position. |