dougdeacon
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| Used Morch DP-6 or modified Origin Live Silver? Swampwalker, thanks for the tip. I'll check it out. Of course if pushing a lower gain tube harder would raise the noise floor, as Tom implies, I might just leave things as they are. I'm still learning here :)Tom, I'm already loving the lower noise... | |
| Used Morch DP-6 or modified Origin Live Silver? David,I suppose a bit of extra gain isn't really a problem, though it makes setting volume kind of touchy. We're at full listening volume at about 9 o'clock. Any idea if different 12AX7's in the phono stage would modify this?Mr. Chapman confirmed ... | |
| Used Morch DP-6 or modified Origin Live Silver? Just in case anybody's watching, we received our TX103 stepups yesterday from BentAudio. John Chapman (nice guy) builds these using Stephens & Billington transformers. To minimize connections and solder joints he extends the secondary all the ... | |
| Why can't I hear 20 years of phono 'progress'?? I'm relatively new here so I have to ask: why are people who's "knickers get in a twist" whenever they hear the word 'analog' trolling in the ANALOG forum? There's a digital forum, but you won't find TWL or me trolling over there. This behavior is... | |
| Why can't I hear 20 years of phono 'progress'?? Now Tom, be fair. Digital MIGHT get it right. Why any day now musical instruments and human voices could start emitting sine waves made up of tiny, squared-off bits. If we all start talking like Arnold in 'The Terminator', digital sound reproducti... | |
| Why can't I hear 20 years of phono 'progress'?? Not to start a fuss or anything, but there have been significant advances in at least some areas of analog playback in the last 20-25 years. Cartridges especially.Come over to my house and listen to my 25 year old TT/arm with a 20 year old MM cart... | |
| Why can't I hear 20 years of phono 'progress'?? Tom's answer covered most of the bases, as usual. Start by normalizing the cost of the old rig for twenty-three years of inflation. Let's assume a 4% annual average. $580 x 1.04^23 = about $1,430 in current dollars. Then throw in another 50% for t... | |
| Sutherland PHD Surprised Twl hasn't stepped in here. He runs his entire system on batteries, although I think they're a little more sophisticated than D cells. I'm sure this gets him cleaner signals and a lower noise floor. We just put a new 12V halogen light fi... | |
| Just a kind word of thanks Zaikes and Twl are model citizens. If Audiogon were Plato's republic they'd be our philosopher-kings, seekers of truth who lead only because they have the knowledge to do so, not because they in any way crave leadership. (Let's hope they don't dec... | |
| Used Morch DP-6 or modified Origin Live Silver? Twl,I'm impressed. Not just by the insights in your review, which we've all come to expect, but by your candid and humble honesty. You expected your baby to "win" and you certainly must have hoped for it to. (I know I did, I've got one on order!) ... | |
| Value of inexpensive linestage preamps? Gunbei said, "Even an inexpensive tube preamp will probably increase the level of refinement of your system over the Denon."Elevick said, "A [Denon] 5800 is pretty nice. It would take a quality pre-amp to out-perform it."Guess what? They're both r... | |
| What LP shows what analog can do? Rcprince wrote, "I still can't figure how Classic mixed up the right and left channels on the DADs, even within the same piece, such as the Gershwin Concerto in F."I have a Smithsonian recording of Bach's Brandenburg #5 that does the same thing in... | |
| What LP shows what analog can do? rcprince, Acoustic Sounds has the Chesky/Petroushka on 180g vinyl, unless the one I got last month was the last copy .It's almost as good as the Firebird we've been discussing. | |
| Value of inexpensive linestage preamps? "With used, you still have your few hundred dollars, just in preamp form." LOL, but true. If it doesn't satisfy you you can probably sell for pretty nearly what you paid. | |
| Value of inexpensive linestage preamps? I don't have any experience with DIY, but you might consider a used c-j PV10 or PV11L. They show up here pretty often. (My PV11 will probably show up here next year, but you probably don't want to wait that long!)Either of these would give you a s... |