immatthewj
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| JJ preamp tubes - repeated problems I recently had a relatively new (about few dozen hours) JJ 6922 gold pin in my preamp went "pop!" then died with the glass badly cracked near the base. Wow--sounds like an epidemic! Pics? | |
| Tube tester BTW, The link works on my end. Norton must be feeling overly cautious tonight. | |
| Tube tester All I get when I click on the link is a message from Norton that says "dangerous web page blocked." | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? Amp manufacturers know that people are going to roll tubes anyway - it's part of the charm - so why not let them do that for themselves. That is also what I think, @bolong . +1. | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? I think they are shooting themselves in the feet when they put JJ tubes, which consensus seems to say are lower quality, into their tube amplifiers. Hmmm . . . I just looked at your "JJs suck" thread and counted the positives and negatives, and... | |
| Cary Audio SLP-5 Preamp Tube Replacement. I have read somewhere that all tubes interact with each other in the circuit so the sockets has to have tubes in them I have read the exact opposite. And although I realize that this discussion applies to the SLP05 preamp, back in late 2017 (wh... | |
| Seeking Honest Opinions: Your Experience with McIntosh Audio Gear I had a SACD player up until a few weeks ago when I sold it @glennewdick , I know this is the amp/preamp forum, and I also know there is a digital forum, but I have been really curious about the Mac SACD player for a while now. What did you t... | |
| I Don't Understand What Determines When A Thread Gets The Axe Speaking of axed: did the "Krell equalizer delivered to wrong addy" get the axe? | |
| JJ preamp tubes - repeated problems Popped the top on the preamp and the top of the tube was completely burned out. Sorry if I misinterpreted that, @samzx12 , when I initially read that it just sounded almost catastrophic was all, and I was thinking that it must have been a lot ... | |
| JJ preamp tubes - repeated problems I had a preamp JJ 6922 go bad at about 100 hours. Heard a crackling and then the left channel went silent. Popped the top on the preamp and the top of the tube was completely burned out. When I went to pull the tube the glass completely disinte... | |
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. but from my in depth studies on a dozen other things that shouldn’t matter, but do… little stuff that other folks with more experience than I recommend that don’t cost much, I’ll just do. Not worth the hours of fiddling to figure it out. I agre... | |
| Cary Audio SLP-5 Preamp Tube Replacement. @couger4u , I meant to ask you who you ordered from? (I may want to upgrade in those four sockets myself.) | |
| JJ preamp tubes - repeated problems I have used JJ tubes for the past 7 years, in my case re-branded tubes with the McIntosh logo on them. The 12ax7 tubes are quieter than the 2 Gold Lion 12ax7 tubes I am using in the line stage. This weekend I will swap out the Gold Lions for 2 ... | |
| JJ preamp tubes - repeated problems Popped the top on the preamp and the top of the tube was completely burned out. When I went to pull the tube the glass completely disintegrated. I had a pair of 6550 (output) tubes (in an amp) redplate for way longer than I ever should have l... | |
| Cary Audio SLP-5 Preamp Tube Replacement. I have dozens of pairs of 6SN7 tubes and the LinLai's have become my tube of choice @pinwa , just a few questions for you as I am also a SL05 owner/operator who is always interested in better living through electronics: 1) how have you config... |