harpo75
Responses from harpo75
| Vinyl static ionizers who's used them? I’ve usually heard good things about the Destat 3 but too expensive for me. I’m a retired tube electronics tech (mostly tube anyway) and on a tight budget. Have built most of my equipment or at least modded it. So looking for a cheap way to acc... | |
| Vinyl static ionizers who's used them? I really don’t know. I’m trying to figure out what might work but maybe an inonizer isn’t the perfect answer to destatic vinyl records. That’s why I’m posting to see what might work. It just seems that whenever you take a device and label it as... | |
| Vinyl static ionizers who's used them? I’ve been interested in finding an inexpensive answer for the static issue with records. I have an original Discwasher desist gun which a slow process and a hassle. I was looking at these ionizing fans that are used for electronics. “Ionizing A... | |
| what to do with a stereo that needs repair As stager mentioned amps like this are not that complicated for a decent tube technician to repair. I’ve worked for a couple high end companies, one of which was a well known for their tube gear. Unless the output transformer is bad which is ver... | |
| Warming up equipment mbmi is also totally correct on speakers. Especially if you’ve modded your crossover with large Polypropylene caps instead of the small electrolytic caps. Not to mention the large flat copper air core inductors. These all come into play. My D... | |
| Warming up equipment Your salesman and cleeds are correct. Don’t turn on the preamp with the amp already on. It “could” send a transient (thump or pop) to the speakers that can cause damage to them. Not sure what preamp you have but working in audio manufacturing ... | |
| Synergistic Research Master Fuse £565 I can understand that a better quality metal in the fuse would make a difference but what I don’t understand is the prices. Especially when a surge or if it’s in a tube preamp or amp that has a tube go bad and blow the fuse you’re out some real m... | |
| Help and Advice Needed: Cary Audio SLP-05 Preamp RMA Disaster Just a few ideas for you from a person that has worked on some SLP-05’s. It’s possible the volume control needs to be replaced. That should have been the first thing they tried. Kimber Kable has no shielding and so does have more leakage to the... | |
| So, I listened to a $1Million Dollar System As someone whose worked in the audio world several times over my lifetime as a technician and even sales and even been the one demoing equipment at CES, etc. show hotel rooms, I can say it’s rarely a perfect representation of what the equipment ca... | |
| What selections do you play when showing off your system to others? I usually ask what they like and try to start off with a taste of that. Maybe a couple tracks and then throw in a few pieces that really perform! Maybe Supertramp, “School” from Crime of the Century (either HiRez digital or the record). Maybe Y... | |
| Best sounding CD player I would definitely go with a great CD transport with a strong power supply out to the best DAC you can afford. I owned a Cary Audio CD306SACD Pro. Fantastic sounding CD player but a bit problematic with the drawer. As equipment got better through ... | |
| Boutique caps in oil... reliable? The only oil caps that I’ve seen leak (I’m sure there are others) was Jensen oil caps. The Jensen copper foil paper and oil were notorious for leaking within 5-10 years. I never really cared for their sound anyway but after replacing one after ano... | |
| Isolated ground in dedicated room/new construction? Immatthewj- Just for your reference then if you ever sell it that is the SLA-70B Signature version 2. If you add high quality coupling caps and a beefed up power supply (more electrolytic capacitance and big polypropylene bypass caps) it’s very go... | |
| Isolated ground in dedicated room/new construction? Immatthewj- That was/is a good little amp. The bad thing was having to take the bottom off the amp to go in and bias it. Never could figure out why Dennis did that. Hopefully you drilled a hole in the chassis and mounted the bias pot and mount a... | |
| Isolated ground in dedicated room/new construction? Would you please explain to me the reason for not using metal boxes? I would have thought (just guessing) that a metal box that is grounded by the conduit would act as a shield around the outlets. What is the reason for plastic boxes? Thanks! |