immatthewj
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| Soundstage drastically worsened when I replaced a solid state AV amp with tubes. Gotcha, @erik_squires , I have never purposely or accidentally done that. The only experience I have is with one of those test CDs by Rodger Skoff & Doug Sax where (I think it's) Rodger who says, "IN PHASE, my voice should be tightly focused... | |
| life span/failure rate of filter capacitors? Thanks, @sns , I would like this amp to last longer than I do, if that is possible. I just got done looking on partsconnexion, & this may not be as easy as I was thinking it would be (finding one with the specs I want). I'll do a search on ... | |
| Soundstage drastically worsened when I replaced a solid state AV amp with tubes. @erik_squires , now I understand what you were saying. Out of phase, right? But with mismatched polarity, I would think that there should have been no concrete imaging between his speakers? | |
| Snowballs @knotscott , I must have missed that game. Were the refs throwing any flags for the Tackling-Tom-Brady penalty? | |
| life span/failure rate of filter capacitors? Thanks for the reply, @sns , I remember (and miss) the Dennis Had days. There used to be a wonderful individual (Kirk Owens) in tech support who was quite patient and thorough and walked me through about every problem or upgrade I ever had with on... | |
| Snowballs Back in the ’90s betting on pro football was a hobby of mine, so I used to watch a lot of foot ball in those days.. I remember one game, it was San Diego @ The NY Giants, (Kent Graham was the QB for The Giants at the time) and the Giants gave up a... | |
| life span/failure rate of filter capacitors? Thanks all. @ditusa , @arcticdeth , this is the thread that got me thinking about the subject and after reading this thread, and a couple of quite recent threads related to the SLP-05, I don't think I want to send anything back to Car... | |
| Soundstage drastically worsened when I replaced a solid state AV amp with tubes. All tubes do is add harmonic distortion (the so called warm sound), so I'm not surprised it doesn't sound as good. @pedroeb , I've never heard that tube amps have a reputation for shrinking the sound stage. | |
| Does a brand new electrical circuit for audio gear benefit from burn in/break in time? they do not reseat all connections, power and signal I will certainly give that a try, @ieales . | |
| Microphonic from Vacuum Tubes? For whatever reason, it hasn't happened since I started this thread. So I just decided not to worry about it anymore. I think that's a good strategy. It's hard to fix something when it's not broken (at least that's what I always say about in... | |
| Greatest Songwriter of all time @backwash , unfortunately I am not too familiar with Lyle Lovett's work, but You can't talk about song writes without Steve Earle or Lyle Lovitt I am in total agreement with you as related to Steve Earle's song writing--so much so that I prev... | |
| Does a brand new electrical circuit for audio gear benefit from burn in/break in time? Without question it does get better give it a week ,just like speaker cables and use good gold copper outlets the garbage that are on your wall is $3 buy good outlets and always copper,never aluminum wire ! @audioman58 , is there an outl... | |
| Microphonic from Vacuum Tubes? @xcool , did you ever get to the bottom of this? The reason it came back to my mind was (unrelated to the SLP-05 specifically) I was reading a customer review of a brand of 5AR4 rectifier tube and a pop or thud heard through both channels was me... | |
| Dedicated Line - Things to consider @immatthewj please let us know what you’ve heard as a result of the test when you get around to it I will do that, @audphile1 , and let us know what you wind up doing as far as your dedicated circuit(s) go. I actually hate doing sonic comparis... | |
| Soundstage drastically worsened when I replaced a solid state AV amp with tubes. Maybe the Mac 275 doesn't like the McIntosh MX123 A/V processor? |