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| Where should the Tubes Go in a Vintage Preamp / Amp System Any perticular reason the Dynaco preamp? Not what i would call a great pramp and the tube types are getting harder to find. If you have it already fine it will do but it will be the week link in your system. As for tubes and where, preamp first ... | |
| Is there a vacuum tube summary poster similar to this grape varietal summary I have a chart in my system info that gives what your asking for small signal tubes in the 12XXX family, mind you only NOS tube. | |
| Replacement power cabling for old Garrard 301 turntable go to the hardware store or local electrics store and buy a wire and plug thats flexable and sufficent sized and put it on, not really that big of an issue. thats what i did with mine when i had it. I left mine hanging off the motor and did not at... | |
| When your boutique Hi-Fi product doesn't appear to justify the price I have had similar experiances with a Canadian audio company and a tuner i bought. I opened it up to find an Ali express $8 tuner kit in it, the kit inclided the tuner board, display, knobs etc. $200 for a $8 chinese tuner kit was disapinting to s... | |
| Trying to find a passive attenuator with a mono/stereo switch and RCA in and RCA out I've never run across one with a mono stereo switch, lots out there with a selector switch and volume of course. You may have better luck having one made, as its just a volume pot and a switch. Decware probably could make one for you out of th... | |
| The end of physical media is neigh Maybe i should start selling off my BlueRay collection now before you cann't buy a player for them anymore. | |
| Added a Schiit Freya+ to a Sansui 8080 I believe what you’re hearing is the Sansui capacitor coupled designs they were known to be a warmer sounding amps than the later designs that went more neutral sounding and had more detail. The AU999 was the first of the later designs for examp... | |
| AR 9 Are they marketable Used acoustic research ar9 for Sale | HifiShark.com | |
| Ugliest Component of the Year 2024! yeah i've never liked this layout on many of the newer mac gear. | |
| Optimize or buy new gear..? i'll add to your comment with fix/treat your room. your room is half what you hear or more. | |
| Tube selection 12AT7 and 12AX7 - preamp I really do not like the JJ tubes in anything i have tried them in. For new i like the gold lion range better. The first thing i did with my Mac gear was toss the JJ's that come stock in them. With all the rebranding going on it’s getting hard ... | |
| Is it possible to bypass the Eversolo Z8 amp? Techincaly every stage has an amp in it, your using the line level amp in the eversolo like any other line output in any source. your not using a speaker level amp out if your using the RCA out (single ended). | |
| Cornwall 4 Speaker Mod - Pickleball Weights You're better off putting damping on the back side of the horn then inside the horn, inside you're effecting dispersion and damping the actual sound coming out of the horn, if you can hear it or not is subjective. I spent the time damping the b... | |
| Lumin d3 vs hifi rose 130 I agree the Hi-rose streamers are great looking and i like that screen, so i dont always have to use a tablet/phone, but the cost is way over priced IMO for what you get. Its a tablet in a fancy box. But if the cost is not an issue for your budg... | |
| Streaming from a TV fastfreight, @glennewdick I see little advantage of converting Toslink to HDMI, unless you are missing the Toslink digital input. Am I missing something? Happy Holidays All! I was refering to go from HDMI out of your TV converted to opt... |