immatthewj
Responses from immatthewj
| How long does it take a decent quality speaker to "wear out"? @dekay , I remember you mentioning that back when I was inquiring about 5AR4s. I am hoping that I am not as hard on rectifier tubes as you are on glasses. | |
| Lack of Female Representation I've been in the same home for 30 years now. Every couple years we have the septic tank pumped. Always without fail it is done by a man. Never once has a woman come out. I've never had a male dental hygienist. | |
| How long does it take a decent quality speaker to "wear out"? @dekay , thanks for asking. Well, I went on a used 5AR4 buying binge of sorts --a UK Amperex, a Holland Amperex, and a Hitachi/(Matsushita?); and I have a Gold Lion I bought prior to that and the original Sovtec, so if nothing else, (given my ag... | |
| A Word Of Thanks I missed your original thread but I am happy for you and the good news. | |
| A Cool Opportunity to Help Good for you! | |
| Cable advice About 25 years ago, I asked a gentleman who sells NOS tubes (an individual who most on A'Gon seem to have a lot of respect for) about mixing tube brands in a certain application. He told me it wasn't his favorite thing, but not as bad as mixing c... | |
| Power cable break in? This is a serious question, not sarcasm: if a power cable requires breaking, doesn't it stand to reason that brand new Romex in a brand new circuit would also need break in time? | |
| How long does it take a decent quality speaker to "wear out"? @ghdprentice , as a matter of fact, my speakers are the older 805 Matrixes. I think I've owned them about 25 years. (I did have to redo the cone suspension on my M&K sub twice in those 30 years.) | |
| How long does it take a decent quality speaker to "wear out"? . . . @erik_squires , if I remember correctly, B&W claims that the midrange drivers are made of Kevlar & the tweeter of titanium. | |
| How long does it take a decent quality speaker to "wear out"? @erik_squires I used to run those speakers hard and loud. Quite often at ear bleed. There were times that I was surprised that they did not explode even though they never clipped. We are both older and I may be somewhat wiser and they are in a s... | |
| Did you ever buy too much bass? No @fuzztone , not even once? | |
| Are There Improvements that Can Be Easily and Quickly Made Without Buying More Stuff? Are you running your stuff on more than one dedicated circuit? I was, but I recently read a thread that prompted me to try ’all-on-one’ and to my surprise I truly think I like it better on one. | |
| Speakers that are good with tubes I must have missed the part where he said the amps were 350 wpc. If I had know that, I would have skipped this thread altogether. This is way out of my league. | |
| Help and Advice Needed: Cary Audio SLP-05 Preamp RMA Disaster Although I am among those who feel that the quality of Cary's tech support has declined, I will also say that (to me) my Marantz SA10 does sound great through the balanced ins and outs of my SLP-05. | |
| What does "balanced triodes" refer to as related to vacuum tubes? Thanks to all for the informative responses. Thanks, @mulveling , that was particularly helpful. |