holmz
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| My Experience With Tekton My personal preference is to praise to high heaven what I love, and give slight mention if any to what I don't. But do it however you like. Maybe it is just me, but I sort of distrust a reviewer that starts of saying that they intentionally om... | |
| Why so many tubes? Not sure what is meant by 'direct path'... But if you need a lot of power, you might need a lot of tubes to make that power. If so, they'll be in parallel, which means the signal is fed to all of them and they all work in tandem to make that power... | |
| Everything Does Seem To Matter Do spades generally make better contact than bananas?Factually, yeah they do… but it is just as likely that there is a psychological bias.The capacitance/inductance may be slightly colouring the sound differently (maybe less now).Ideally you could... | |
| Hum coming from Turntable @zipost it has nothing to do with you household grounding.It is likely a magnetic field if it is 60 Hz.But it could also be a ground loop. | |
| Hum coming from Turntable 1) Does the cartridge even need to be grounded? The two wires come off if each coil2) doubtful to be causing a hum3) Seems the most likely to me4) I would doubt #4 unless the RCAs were running along side of a power line going into the TT. | |
| Hum coming from Turntable Also add:5) Magnetic fields caused but inductance loops from household wiring.That one took me a couple of hours to figure out once. But one should rarely find that if the house is wired with Romex.Does it do it whether the TT motor is running or ... | |
| How many watts?? I can drive an inefficient speaker with 44w/channel and it sounds great too at the 12 o’clock position… (The speakers are 84 or maybe 86 dB/W/1-meter.)If the OP is playing at 1/4 of the way up, it is not likely that they are playing it at more tha... | |
| New Set Up Spotted the reference to ATC SCM 20. I would simply add active to that already great ATC speaker.I know nothing about the ATCs either, but if they are like a Dutch-n-Dutch, then it opens up opportunity when they just get an input signal. | |
| 2.1 to 5.2 (Vandersteen 2C) @intermediatic Thanks!I did hit the button on a VCC-5 last week, and also a pair of VSMs.I’ll likely resock the VSMs as it is likely to be the only way to get a WAF score high enough to get them into the room that they need to end up in. And it is... | |
| Need help with MM cartridge choice On a Rega Planar 3, you're not going to get good performance. Sow's ear / silk purse. Better to just get a cheap cartridge and start looking for a better table / armI thought that the OP already said he had a good TT in the opening post?@effisch... | |
| How many watts?? Its like comparing the horse power of a lawn mower to a motor cycle. The number can be the same on paper but the end product is nothin alike.Yeah… I agree that my John Dear mower is nothing like a Kawasaki motorcycle. They are both green, and have... | |
| MC 240 ReTube or Replace PM me to offload it cheap, and I help you out.Alternatively it sounds like it could be a capacitor. Any decent tube person will likely be able to sort it out.It could also be something with the speaker (like an XO cap), which is presenting a diffi... | |
| Matching solid state amps with tube based pre amps JFC… If the output of the preamp is 100-1000 ohms, and input impedance of the power amp is 20k to 100k ohms, then what is being matched? (Or what needs to be “matched”?)What does “matched” even supposed to significantly? What is the meaning of the... | |
| Class A into Class AB It is mostly marketing jumbo jumbo.Any biased AB designed will be biased, and the amount is either 0.6V or more than 0,6V (like 1.2V).So a 1.2V bias design always runs as class A under 1.2v.So yeah it it marketing.If it was a Class-A on the tweete... | |
| Class A into Class AB It is mostly marketing jumbo jumbo.Any biased AB designed will be biased, and the amount is either 0.6V or more than 0,6V (like 1.2V).So a 1.2V bias design always runs as class A under 1.2v.So yeah it it marketing.If it was a Class-A on the tweete... |