grannyring
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| Synergistic Red Fuse ... No connectors are best. High quality connectors are better than average or poor connectors. Few will direct solder like myself, or use the clamping speaker connection suggested, but these are best sonically speaking. | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... A good quality breaker costs about $40 and replaces the on/off switch that carries its own cost. No, a great quality circuit breaker will not impact the sound any more than a quality power switch. Another big area for improvement in amps are the b... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... True Charles, but on the one topic of fuses in amp design I would like to see more effort in their elimination. Status quo seems to rule the day in amp design with fuses. BTW it is very easy to mod most existing amps to eliminate the fuse with an ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... I have shared this before and want to bring it up again as it is a topic that is very interesting to me. The designer of Tube Research Labs equipment taught me fuses, all fuses, degrade sound no matter the audiophile brand. He never put fuses in ... | |
| Robert Lee recommends Triode Corp, but... Let me give you another choice that would be fantastic on your speakers. Von Gaylord LM Triode monoblock tube amps. PP amps with 50 watts of glorious tube power and no mods needed. These are amazing amps and so beautiful sounding. Ray’s gear flies... | |
| Best DIY silver solder? No solder please. Use bare wire if at all possible. All solder and connectors degrade the sound. Go naked and you will find out first hand. | |
| Robert Lee recommends Triode Corp, but... I own the a Crescendo speakers and use two amps to great effect. I find one amp has a group of strengths that no tube amp can match while the other amp has qualities no SS amp can match on these speakers. Don’t rule out SS.I use a Lyngdorf 2170 wh... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Thanks for the pictures. I was going to suggest you use NOS Western electric stranded wire and the new Duelund match. It seems you already knew that! | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil You are on top of it for sure! Love to know more about the speakers and what amp drives them. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Very impressed with your parts selection and I bet the speakers will sound fantastic based on the care you are taking on the crossover alone. If if you need resistors I know a brand that is to resistors as Duelund is to capacitors. Path Audio resi... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Wow! You have a wonderful assortment. I have no experience with the cooker , but they need at least 100 hours in gear. 200 hours is even better. | |
| Warm-up time for amps and preamps Leave it on for extended life in many instances. My Class D amp runs very cool so heat is not an issue. Small preamp signal tubes last longer on as studies and real life experience show. Turning the tubes on and off often reduces tube life faster ... | |
| Just wondering... Parts can be very expensive if one wants to build state of the art. For example, silver output caps made by Duelund will cost $1000 alone. What about high quality transformers, wire, film power supply caps, silver wire, and on and on. A nice chas... | |
| Warm-up time for amps and preamps Atmasphere, thank you for your post. That is how I understood it also. Heat is the enemy really. | |
| Warm-up time for amps and preamps I keep on SS gear all the time for best sound. This is especially true for digital front ends and class D amps. |