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Which resistors to use for KT88 output tubes After noticing Caddock 1W MM215 resistors in some top commercial audio gear, I intend to try this non-inductive model singly and in parallel in a future upgrade. Has anyone here experienced these or perhaps the MS or MV series? Caddock factory dir... | |
Capacitor question Charles1dad, I'm not familiar with every BAT product, but their SE-series tube preamps have offered optional parallel bundles of PIO film caps to bypass or replace select electrolytics. This option has not been available in VK tube amps, but REX m... | |
Capacitor question Cathode, BTW a friend with VK-120s just replaced all 14 electrolytics in the input and driver stages of each monoblock with 110uf/700V film caps. This was the most significant improvement in sonic performance of many internal modifications, but re... | |
Capacitor question Before you change any cabling in your system you should look into upgrading the stock 24" Belden wire from XLR to PCB inside the VK150SE. | |
R.I.P. Andy Williams The claim is that it ended up being Bacall, with possibly a few dubbed high notes from Andy. | |
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Yes, one of these went to my friend. | |
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lew, my only info on point is a Trans-Fi friend who compared M420, M415 and LPM312 to a recently acquired NIB M320III STR. (I have compared all of these except for the LPM.) He felt that the M320III STR clearly surpassed the others, as well as all... | |
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? As one in the 'linear group' whose 'set' also includes both Acutex 420STR and 320III STR, I propose a further set division between flat- and long-nose cartridges. Through this distinction one also finds a useful simile to describe certain posters.... | |
R.I.P. Andy Williams Fascinating that the film studio allegedly recorded his teenage voice as a possible overdub for Lauren Becall in To Have and Have Not. Like Lawrence Welk, a product of the middle-brow mid-west who managed to sing for America for a long and bland m... | |
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Agreed, one abattoir is sufficient. | |
Best Rock Album in 2012 Has anybody seen GB open for Radiohead? Shields is an excellent LP, but may go too far in the direction of turning GB into a cover band for the RH sound. | |
Beatles Reissues on VINYL Finally As mentioned in the Analog Planet thread,"the original tapes were transfered flat to 24/192... BUT... the mastered versions (EQ'd and level adjusted) were printed back to 24/44.1. That means the highest resolution that the approved mastered versio... | |
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nikola, this comes dangerously close to the storyline of Gogol's The Nose, in which a customer's missing facial part discovered in a barber's piece of bread signifies castration. A cigar is sometimes just a cigar, but a moustache is usually m... | |
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nikola, In this instance there is no arm tube. The headshell bayonet receptacle butts directly into the vertical pivot bearing. the tonearm wires run from soldered connections to the pins on the backside of the bayonet receptacle, through the... | |
Burn in Capacitor phenomena Capacitor microphonics are easily detected at the surface with a sensitive instrument microphone. Try placing a phono cartridge stylus on the cap's surface and listen to it rumble with the music. We use a laser vibrometer to quantify it during the... |