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| Noise & Hum Rating That's nonsense. My amp takes a dozen EL 34s. Cary tried to tell me that the tubes that were in it were bad. When I had them tested locally not only weren't they bad, they were actually very strong, and except for a little degradation in two of th... | |
| Noise & Hum Rating I did switch to the 4 ohm taps, and they are quieter. Not silent, but definitely quieter. There also doesn't appear to be any difference in sound, which is good.I was a bit disappointed in Cary's service for a number of reasons. I don't think they... | |
| Noise & Hum Rating I did move the pre-amp to a different power supply, which helped, but the hum did not go away entirely. Unfortunately the cheap Monster power supply is not quite as clean sounding as PS Audio. The hum itself is barely audible, and not at all when ... | |
| Good Speaker For Vintage McIntosh C22/MC275 Any of the bigger Harbeths or Spendors would be fine too. I drive Spendor S8e's with 50 tube watts and they sound great. | |
| Output watts per tube So apparently the amp that we were using as a test bed was also not running the tubes anywhere close to their maximum output capability either. Based on Jazzerdave's estimation, the 8 watts per tube that the V12 is using now is about 2/3s the powe... | |
| Output watts per tube OK. That's a good point, and I don't know. It was an old Heathkit that had been modified to serve as a test bed. | |
| Output watts per tube No one? Really? | |
| New to Turntable - what're involved in playing LP? find someone locally who has one and check it out first. it's helpful to have someone who knows their way around, especially if they can help with tracking force and such. | |
| New amp recommendations For the same money - less actually you could get a Audio Research VSi60 Integrated. Very nice sounding amplifier. | |
| How do we remember 1970s amplifiers? This is slightly before the 70s, but my old man had a Fisher tube receiver, a Garrard Lab 80 turntable with an Empire cartridge, and AR speakers, and he ran that kit well into the mid 80s. Lamp cord for speaker wires, with the speakers just lying ... | |
| Spendor and Tubes I'm in my third amp pairing with my Spendor S8e's. Currently using a Cary V12R and the speakers have never sounded better. A much better match than the 275 watt Musical Fidelity M3 that was in there before. The speakers, btw, are the only thing in... | |
| Any advantages to bi-wiring speakers vs. single I'm not sure why this is better, but it is. My cables (LAT SS1000II) are single-wire at the amp end to bi-wire at the speakers (Spendor S8e) and this was definitely an improvement over the same cable in single-wire to single-wire with jumpers. | |
| Miles Davis LIVE in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Serie Agree with the prior two posts BUT despite the midling mono sound, all of the elements are clearly audible. You won't be straining to hear the bass, or a subtle piano fill. Sometimes records like this can offer a better listening experience becaus... | |
| The new "Europe '72" Stakladen, Aarhus University, Denmark 4/17/72 is a terrific date. Two highlights: 1st, Donna did not sing that night :-) ; 2nd, the third disc Truckin, jam, Other One, Me and My Uncle, Other One.... phenomenal. Really one of the bests sets I've ev... | |
| Speaker Rake That's just one of those things you have to experiment with until you get it to where you like it. There are so any variable - the height of your chair; the distance from your speakers; toe-in - rake is just another variable in setting up your spe... |