djohnson54
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| Upscale audio advice Vinyl, I got 4 Phillips platinum grade PCC88/7DJ8s (which are a direct replacement for 6922s) for $35 each and 2 Pope 6V6GTs at $49 each. The Pope 6V6GTs were at the suggestion of Kevin rather than the ones I had picked out (can't remember which o... | |
| Upscale audio advice Well, I re-tubed my VK-3i with tubes from Upscale just a few months ago. I called, left a message for Kevin and he called me back. I had an idea what I wanted and we discussed the merits of various tubes. He then put me on hold to go and check his... | |
| Need tube 101 info You had better be careful or the level of hiss in the house will go up dramatically and the tubes won't be the only thing that is ringing! | |
| New CD´s with errors, acording to dBpoweramp Leog, I seem to be replying to a lot of your threads! I too have had this happen with brand new CDs. The CDs look fine but sometimes just polishing the CD lightly with a clean soft cloth will take care of the problem. Try to clean from inside to o... | |
| Dbpoweramp .flac Leog, Yes, that's what metadata is. Most people just refer to them as "tags." The file specifications for flac, mp3, ogg and other file formats include "space" for this information. The wav format does not. It's a matter of convenience. As Steve m... | |
| Dbpoweramp .flac Vladimir is right about the hard disk space. I use level 5 compression as I don't find the space savings between 5 and 8 to be that large. I use compression because I couldn't hear any difference between compressed and uncompressed files. Some peo... | |
| Need tube 101 info Good deal. Yes, the guys who run BAT are Russian. Don't let this experience put you off of tubes. The rewards are often great and tube preamps aren't really all that much trouble. I'm sure yours won't be either, once you get it running properly.Dick | |
| Need tube 101 info Last, try this site for basic tube info: http://www.vacuumtubes.net/How_Vacuum_Tubes_Work.htm. I know I've seen another site that had good audio-related tube info but I can't seem to find it right now. Maybe others will recommend a site. I'm not s... | |
| Dbpoweramp .flac Leog, All flac format files are lossless. Level 8 compression is flac's highest level of compression where with "uncompressed" there is no compression at all (like .wav files). The benefit of using the flac format is that your music can be tagged ... | |
| Heeeelp New used BAT Vxi3 - Hisssssssss The BAT mutes the output for 50 seconds at startup to avoid the problem Elizabeth mentions. The crackling is not normal. I get a slight hiss coming from the tubes but I can only hear it if I put my ear next to the tweeter. It's not volume-dependen... | |
| Heeeelp New used BAT Vxi3 - Hisssssssss Agree with Jfrech - it's a tube (or tubes in the case of the other set). I just retubed my VK-3i with NOS tubes from Kevin Deal at Upscale Audio and it sounds wonderful. I got 4 Phillips platinum grade PCC88/7DJ8's for $35 each and 2 Pope 6V6GT's ... | |
| Speakers and air-conditioning Bthogan, On the serious side, rain storms also tend to cool things off and A/C units cycle on less, taking some of the strain off of the power grid. Some of the other serious comments are possible too, but power was the first thought I had while r... | |
| Software like Audyessy I could swear that I saw something recently advertised by Neal at Sound Science where he was adding room correction software to his line of Music Vault music servers (which are essentially specialized computers). I can't find it now (after a brief... | |
| Unusual TAS bomb Or maybe it really *IS* all about synergy. | |
| Can Music Reference MR9 drive Tannoy DMT 215 II Very high sensitivity speakers (like yours) will easily reproduce ANY noise present in your system. Tube amps and preamps generally have some hiss present and occasionally some hum too. You might try lifting the ground with a cheater plug on the a... |