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| Genuine Telefunken? Tele used to relabel their tubes as 'The Fisher' You will find 12ax7 smoothplates so marked. Quite a bit cheaper than those marked tele too.John C. | |
| Shorting the speaker wires Some amps are tolerent of shorting, and many are not.Some amps also are not tolerent of having no load on the speaker terminals at all. I have also seen a friend damage a speaker by hot swapping a RCA cable. The connection thump caused an arc in h... | |
| What Caps For My Tuner Power supply caps, or coupling caps? What are the values of the caps, and your budget?In what way would you like the sound to be different as a result of changing caps?John C. | |
| Recommend a small tube amp for bedroom use? Bedroom speakers won't need more than a watt or 2.Take a look at a small SET like decware. I'm using a pair in my bedroom system now. | |
| A 9 watts SET for the Maggies, Heavenly marriage I currently have a Dared 845 SET running my MG20'sAt reasonable volume its fine. As long as you don't plat tecno, or turn it up way too loud it doesn't clip.I've also run them on a set of Decware SV83 monoblocks. Some have told me you can't run Ma... | |
| Are PC UPS a Power Conditioning alternative? Most PC oriented UPS supply a square wave, not a sine wave. My experience with this is they kill dynamics. If you have one for your computer try it and see for yourself. I'm now using a PS Audio P-1000, and getting greater dynamics than straght in... | |
| Bi-Amping question... Yes, you should be able to do that.However, if the Krells have more gain than the integrated you won't be able to turn the integrated loud enough to match. Some folks biamp with matching amps. I think using tubes for top end, and SS for bass match... | |
| Where to learn about bypass capacitors? Be sure the cap you are adding(in parallel) has a voltage rating at least as high as the original cap. If theres room you could solder aligaror clips to a bypass caps leads and easily A/B test its effects.Do be careful of the charge that a cap can... | |
| Sound proofing floor The biggest transmission of noise is air leaks, so the suggestion to caulk is a good one. If you're ready yo go through all the trouble to raise the floor, how about pulling up yout subfloor and filling below it with expanding foam insulation? Thi... | |
| best high efficiency speakers for under 3 grand Any of the Decware, Parker audio speakers, or Hornshoppe horns are all under 3k brand new. | |
| quality RCA and XLR connectors I've never seen anyone do a connector shootout, so I made my choice based on theory alone.I went with WBT Nexgen silver due to low mass of metal, and so less disturbance to signal.They don't fit a standard panel hole though, you'll need to open th... | |
| How Long to Burn-In Western Electric 300Bs? In some ways I agree with both answers.My experience is that tubes do burn in, initially sounding slightly bright. Much of this dissapears in the first few hours, but I'm sure those of you with better ears or gear may notice it longer. Brand new t... | |
| What's that tube you have there? If you're handy with a soldering iron you can make up a tube adapeter.7N7 is an identical tube, but different pinouts, and loctal base.You need the base and pins from 2 junk tubes( you know the ones) and 2 loctal sockets.NOS 7N7 are $5-10 eash for... | |
| Walker Audio- High Definition Links- anyone The only thing that makes sense to me is that it could be a Zobel network.http://www.trueaudio.com/st_zobel.htm | |
| Curious if anyones using numerous Richard Gray 400 I have 3 400's, and a PS-1000. The first one was a big improvement, the second one less so. The third one, I'm not sure it made a difference in my system.That third 400 got moved to my other system.I'm sure opinions will differ depending on how ba... |