drbarney1
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| Do any still use an older high end tuner from the past?.... I had a McIntosh MR 7082 tuner for about 30 years but I did not care for it requiring batteries to store frequencies and the difficulty with the frequency display. I fixed it up and sold it cheap to someone who could completely rebuild it and repl... | |
| Magnepan mmg vs .7 . Real world experience opinions requested Magnepans sound spectacular with 833-A SET and Hammond 1642SE output transformers. The 833-A sounds best at 1000 plate volts and zero grid bias, but the cathodes draw 10 amps at 10 Volts and have to be pure DC meaning the final filter capacitors f... | |
| Future of cables! I studied E&M theory, taking all of the courses in it my graduate school had to offer. My qualifier exams took four days, one full day of closed book problems to be solved in electromagnetic theory and I made the top of the class in all my qua... | |
| Synergistic Research Cable Risers? A reasonable question for "exotic" cables and embellishments thereto is what kind of engineering and/or physics background does the designer who invented them have. I tried to find out what training many famous cable "engineers" have and there is ... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? Don't overlook building one from a kit. There are plenty of SET preamps kits and plans which are as good as many very expensive manufactured preamps. I made one using Arcturus 27 triodes with blue glass. | |
| Disappointing On Mcintosh......help I have heard McIntosh with speakers such as Dhalquest long ago and for its day it was impressive. More recently I heard McIntosh with Sonus Farber and the Sonus Farber speakers cost well over $50,000. They were well suited for duplicating the ambi... | |
| So What Is Real? The most esteemed and marketplace successful cable designers turn out to have little or no education in physics or relevant engineering in the way cables or conductors work but they have a smattering of knowledge about some of it. For me it takes ... | |
| DSD vs PCM .. Truth or Myth Having read the article about the Mystique R2R Ladder DAC I think I will stay with my MSB Platinum. It has a buffer clock to get the jitter down and upgraded R@R ladders I put in. For 5 channel SACD there is no other choice but a player with 5 or ... | |
| The Modern DAC killed High Resolution Music - has Stereophile proven it? There is argument between DSD and PCM through a resistor ladder DAC. WHich is better? I have been using an MSB Platinum with an upgrade buffer circuit to get rid of jitter. MSB thinks this is better than DSD. But PS Audio makes a DAC which convert... | |
| [help] I'm too Boomer to stream. :-( There are three problems. First, because of our age if we have no pension, and almost nobody does, we have to live on social security and nobody will hire anyone over the age of 50 anymore no matter how formidable your qualifications. That leaves ... | |
| Subwoofers and Phase Question For You Sub Experts Has anyone tried Rythmik subwoofers? They use servos to make them fast and clean. In my little room I use a sealed unit and I cound an out of the way place where it fits in with my Magnepans. | |
| What is the most FUN pair of speakers you've ever had and why? The most fun speakers I owned were a pair of G. R. Research OB7's. I did many experiments with them to test the orthodoxies extolled in audio magazines and books on how to create the ultimate stereo system. I tried bi-amplification with the tweete... | |
| diy tangential tonearms I have not made any hasty decisions on this, but here is what I conclude so far: I am not interested in air bearings because they are too complicated and too given to maintenance requirements and the noise they make diminishes the signal to noise ... | |
| Suggestions for getting a commission to custom build tube amps I was motivated by a combination of what many people who seem too stuffy inspiring me to rebel against oppressively bland contemporary tastes and I wanted to build something that is more fun than any amplifier I could afford to buy if I were a tel... | |
| Does raising speaker cables off the floor really make a big difference? I have a suggestion. Does the insulator on a speaker cable store and re-release an electric field capable of doing something to the sound? A way to find out is connect one cable pair to an amplifier but not to a speaker. If you use tube amplifiers... |