drbarney1
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| So done with audiophile fuses The claim of a $50 fuse or a fuse costing thousands of dollars is unreasonable and arguments of ability to hear an improvement are not credible because those who make them can out-debate you even if you have a PhD in electrical engineering or a re... | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? If you can't afford to buy an amplifier and you like tube gear you can build your own, especially if you choose SET amps because of the simplicity of design. You can use better components: polypropylene power supply capacitors instead of electroly... | |
| Is $2,844 too much to pay for a fuse? There is no mention of where Mr. (not Dr.) Tsang took graduate school physics or any peer reviewed journal papers he at least co-authored to learn the specific quantum mechanics claimed to have been brought to bear in the design of his fuses. Why ... | |
| This is the list of the best makers of audio equipment. Respond if you disagree In the 1980's I bought a Nakamachi cassette deck because I wanted the best available. It sounded magnificent when it was new, but it wore out in only one year and cost more to repair every year that to replace it, something I was not willing to do... | |
| Which amplifier should i buy I saw on this site a 300B Set costing $10,000. I was disappointed that such an expensive amp uses electrolytic capacitors in the plate power supply instead of the far superior never go bad with age polypropylene capacitors instead. An SET amp is e... | |
| Maggie LRS so ridiculously good I use two bass panels with my 0.7s which are the biggest speakers I can fit in my 26 foot diameter house. I drive them with separate taps off Hammond 1642 transformers to know they are all properly phased. An 833A triode runs SET at1000 Volts on t... | |
| Why would anyone want class AB amp when class A always sounds better ? While I don't feel strongly enough about class A vs AB to become a television evangelist so I could spend a few billion to hire the Islamic State tosteal for me a Tzar Bomba to use against people using AB amps, I make my own class A tube amps beca... | |
| Worst Concerts You Have Attended ?? While I never had to walk out of a concert, the Dallas Symphony was scheduled to perform the music of Schubert. I flew a private plane from where I was staying while I was still in the Air Force to Dallas to attend. When I arrived at the concert h... | |
| Looking for a new phono preamp I am in the same situation. I will probably build my own with a tube rectifier power supply putting about 300 Volts through 100K loading resistors to the plates of a 6SN7 in two stages of amplification and a passive RIAA resistor capacitor network... | |
| Takedown of pricey servers, streamers OCD HiFi guy Last year I decided to replace playing CDs with storing them on a hard drive and playing them through a server connected to my vintage MSB Platinum DAC. The salesman persuaded me to get a Bluesound Vault 2i which copse CDs to its hard drive and co... | |
| Preamp choices:Short list I have a single ended triode par of monoblocks which I built because I can't afford to buy what fits my tastes. For my preampier I have always used a simple SET using either a 6J5, a 76, a 6P5, and finally Arcturis 27 because I like blue glass ins... | |
| Recommendation for a replacement speaker cable Be suspicious of any cable manufacturer who sells any remedy for skin effect attenuating treble. 10 Feet of solid 8 gauge cable changes resistance on the order of hundredths of an Ohm from DC to 20 kHz. In series with a 4 Ohm speaker, skin effect ... | |
| How old are you? 74 | |
| Does Power Cord Require Burn-In To Sound Good? How power influences the sound depends upon the equipment: The power supply in an amplifier could do so thorough a job of filtering out noise along with hum that it might make power conditioning irrelevant. If you use single ended triode amplifica... | |
| BlueSound Stinks(!), anyone? I ran into some problems with a Bluesound Vault 2i. The first thing I did when it arrived was to rip all 175 of my CD's onto its 2 Terabyte hard drive in "bit perfect" multiple passes it makes over each CD. However, it was impossible to arrange th... |