fredtroy
Responses from fredtroy
| Conrad Johnson PV11...Extreme sibilance, harsh sou Bit late reading this thread. Have PV11, actually PV8 modified to PV11. Changed output coupling caps to PIO's, that made the difference in mine. | |
| Genelex Gold Lion KT-88 reissued tubes Geesh, spoke to soon. 3 out of 4 Gold Lion reissue's failed within days of each other. Think I got about 7 months out of them. Liked the sound, not happy with reliability. | |
| tubes going microphonic always same channel??? Is the tube microphonic? Put it in another socket or component and problem followed the tube? | |
| Genelex Gold Lion KT-88 reissued tubes Have been using Genelex Gold Lion KT-88 reissued tubes for about 6 months and like them, a lot. Have switched to other amplifiers during this period, always nice coming back to them. Did use GE 6550's and tried some Russian tubes before, like thes... | |
| Laser assembly replacement? If Bander is correct, just changed CDM9 in another player, took about 20 minutes. | |
| philips 963sa player Had same problem, was high capacitance, low voltage cap on the PS board. Don't have cdp any more so don't recall value, but there is only one like it on the board. Surprisngly radio shack had one in their but a bunch of electrolytics for $5. | |
| budget tube preamp dilema Lots of good advice here. I did the basic mods to a Dynaco PAS3, number of years back, compared it to PV8, PAS sounded much better. Updated PV8 to PV11, PAS still gave it a run for its money. Have also heard good thinks about the Trancendent. Wish... | |
| Overpriced Tube Amps I've been fooling around with hifi equipment for 40 years, listened to my father's tube equipment growing up and have had a lot of pretty good solid state equipment since. Few years ago I bought a PAS-3 preamp for $75, beefed up the PS, upgraded a... |