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| What exactly is PRaT??? I'm not sure what's so confusing about it. Audio systems are a combination of mechanical devices that work together to reproduce that elusive thing called music. There are well-made devices and badly-made devices. There are devices that work we... | |
| Open baffle speakers Last year at the Burning Amp Festival I heard a pair of open-baffle speakers that I found very impressive. They were tall, with 7 drivers in a D'Appolito configuration on beautiful hardwood slabs. The most natural sounding bass! A plucked acous... | |
| To all you Cary SLI 80 owners, I'm looking for tube suggestions I see that Cary lists a number of tubes you can use in the amp. KT66 is not one of them and I would not recommend trying them in an amp that boasts 40 wpc output in triode mode and 80 wpc in UL mode. You’re in danger of overheating the tubes and m... | |
| Recommend a desktop nearfield speaker for me @effischer Great comments. | |
| Need suggestions on preamp If you like the coherent soundstage of the Maggies, consider a used pair of ProAc 1SCs or Tablettes, or larger ones if your room will accommodate. It's odd to me that people around here rarely mention them, but years ago I replaced my small Maggi... | |
| Anyone remember the days before bells and whistles! There were plenty of "bells and whistles" in the old days! ;-) A high-end Fisher setup might comprise two "Z-Matic" monoblocks with damping controls, a "control center" preamp with balance, treble, bass, loudness, rumble filter, various LP EQ sett... | |
| critique my setup -- weak link? best way to improve? A separate phono preamp, definitely. Schiit is a good recommendation for a budget price. If the speakers *must* stay on the credenza, then get some desktop stands for them, they'll sound much better. IsoAcoustics are popular. Otherwise separate... | |
| Crucial TUBE question Like I said, it's a combination of factors. One way or the other, different rectifier tubes will impart a different sound to the amp or preamp. A lot of technically-minded folks will disagree with that, but I've always found it to be the case. | |
| Crucial TUBE question "Yes, called super rectifier, they do make a huge difference for some reasons I understand and some I don't." Well, basically, you're fiddling with both the amount of HV voltage fed to the mother unit (which will change the operating points of th... | |
| Crucial TUBE question Ah, okay. Is this the fellow that makes the add-on rectifier boxes? | |
| Crucial TUBE question Also, it's likely that a schematic wouldn't indicate that pin 7 is used as a tie point, so you'd still be scratching your head. ;-) | |
| Crucial TUBE question I wish I were smart enough to know how the filament voltage made it through the diode to power the filaments, but I'm not. ;-) It worked somehow. "I don't know what it is that makes power tubes in the rectifier position have such a big bold soun... | |
| Crucial TUBE question If you want the best possible rectifier for your PrimaLuna, then spring for a pair of vintage NOS Mullard GZ34s. The price may seem off-putting, but they will literally last a lifetime in that preamp, and offer the best possible sound, IMO. For ma... | |
| Crucial TUBE question Are you sure you aren't using the Home Theater bypass inputs? But looking at the underside photo on the web site, it actually *is* possible that the KT150 worked. There's a zener or diode wired from pin 8 to pin 7 on the rectifier sockets, and t... | |
| Crucial TUBE question If the Prima Luna employs two tube rectifiers for a split power supply, as their ad copy says and a photo of the underside seems to confirm, and one rectfier isn’t working, then only one channel would work. So I don’t know what you put in there bu... |