ieales
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| Point to Point vs Circuit Board If you design the board properly you simply won't be able to tell the difference between a properly hand wired example vs the same circuit on a circuit board. Some may not but some may. Many times we played beat the proto... | |
| Point to Point vs Circuit Board Fact is most products are a compromise. Some gold platers sound half as good as they should due to designers lack of understanding of / effort at selecting and tuning components for a circuitThe distinctions go much finer than PCB or P2P. FRP, cer... | |
| What is wrong with my system? ^^^ Anyone recommending phase incoherent Tektons is to be ignored. Ditto sonics via nameplate. Sad. Really, really sad. | |
| Are Lamm preamps hard on tubes? There is a tab on his page called "NOS Tube Specifications" that is worth readingLinks are nice: A BRIEF NOTE ABOUT NOS TUBES AND ORDERING INFORMATION (audiotubes.com) Brent is a good guy and pleasant to deal with. +10 | |
| Balls..... Did it in the 70's when Oracle updated the bearing assembly.Oracle was replaced by Goldmund in early 80's.Goldmund disposed of in 1987.Now only play the silver disc. Not an endorsement, just a preference. | |
| What is wrong with my system? First, never buy all the same cables. I've heard some great systems wired with Audioquest turn to absolute rubbish swapping in another Audioquest. Purchase cables that mate well with the components they interconnect. Disregard 99.99% of all specif... | |
| Balls..... 20+ CONFIRMATION BIAS responses!!!Anyone have any measurements?lower rumbleless wow / flutterbetter speed consistencyAnyone hear the same thing just by removing the ball and replacing in a different orientation?Anyone do any analysis over time? | |
| Why have capacitors improved so much over the years? I'm not debating matching tubes. Been doing it for decades. However, if you stick a matched quad in something like a CII or ST-70, bias it up, play it a while and then re-measure the tubes, they are no longer what they were and the ratios of the v... | |
| Why have capacitors improved so much over the years? I'm well familiar with Modjeski's brilliance. I'm pretty sure he never claimed perfect matching. | |
| Why have capacitors improved so much over the years? Roger designed circuits requiring perfectly matched output tubes This may be more marketing than fact. Matching to 5% is really hard and does not last much after the tube is put in service. 10% is considered pretty darned good. Industry standar... | |
| amplifier with volume control I keep forgetting that if you have a cheap passive with some suspect pot, all bets are off.In the studio I used channel matched Penny & Giles. Don't recall the cost but it was a lot.For my last HiFi stepped passive built a few years back, silv... | |
| amplifier with volume control I would hope that, all things being equal, that having the attenuator built into the amp would be an improvement over a separate passive box with the additional interconnect. Nope. Bypassed many an input level control in studio amplifiers becau... | |
| amplifier with volume control The demands the input of an amplifier puts on a source is just like what a speaker puts on an amp utter nonsense. This just flat out wrong. There is next to zero current required in the input of an amplifier. There is no dynamic impedance or fly... | |
| Why have capacitors improved so much over the years? I can't understand either why manufacturers go through all the trouble of designing a piece of gear & then at the most critical point insert cheap caps. For one thing, a large manufacturer might pay a dollar for a cap which you might pay te... | |
| Very new to high end audio - Recomendations 20 year old DSP with internal amplifiers would give me pause... |