islandmandan
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| Flea Watt Amp: What Speakers Are. You Using With Yours? Recommendations My custom built Tannoy HPD's (Dual Concentric drivers from 1974), 94db sensitivity, sound magical with my SET 300B (@ 9 Wpc) amp, in a large room. I am using EML XLS 300B tubes, for which the filament voltage has been optimized for those tubes.No ... | |
| Best Tubes on Market today? In my cheap Chinese amp, I'm using Shuguang Pvsane 845 tubes. My amp is quiet and sounds very good, despite its poor provenance. regards,Dan | |
| I need some techy help in order a preamp--resistor values. Jb, just FYI, the Modwright has a built-in remote volume control that is smooth and quiet, and raises (or lowers!) the volume in small enough increments that won't aggravate you with too large a jump in volume.Dan | |
| I need some techy help in order a preamp--resistor values. JB, the Khozmo is a very nice looking piece of kit. I can't help you with advice regarding resistors, my concern is whether your amp would have enough gain to use with a passive line stage. You didn't mention that subject in the specs you listed.I... | |
| Mastersound Tube amp When I first got my 845 amp, (cheap Chinese I have to admit), I had installed some tubes in it and listened for awhile. I decided to try some different tubes in it, and one of the 845 tubes would not come out, nor would it rotate in either directi... | |
| Buying Speakers Based on Specs You might want to entertain the idea of finding a pair of subwoofers that will take care of the low end of things, if, in fact, you like everything else about your Paradigms.Just a thought. Regards,Dan | |
| Building shielded IC's. Should both shield ends be terminated at the RCA, or only one? Al, thanks for taking the time to answer my question. Your participation, and always well informed input, is always appreciated.Thanks so much for all you do here.Regards,Dan | |
| Building shielded IC's. Should both shield ends be terminated at the RCA, or only one? Miller, I was expecting this exact comment from you, and you didn't disappoint. I enjoy doing things like making interconnects, and I can't afford the high-priced spread. Some of us just have to do what we can with what we have, and love it just t... | |
| Building shielded IC's. Should both shield ends be terminated at the RCA, or only one? Folks, I just found the answer to my question, so you fine people don't need to respond. Thanks anyway.Regards,Dan | |
| Long time analog user dips his toe in Schiit, Grungnir multibit. Glenn, it's great you found yourself a nice reward in your digital front end. I'm in the US, and I couldn't afford a new DAC, so I found a 2011 Benchmark DAC 1 PRE I could afford, and I can't believe how happy I am with that. Digital has come a lo... | |
| Your Top Five Blues LPs, SQ-wise... I'll add Robert Cray Band, "Live Across The Pond" | |
| Substantial System Improvements Millercarbon, although I've built tube preamps, class d amps (all from kits), my crossovers, changed power supplies in my phono pre, the one time I involved myself in working on the internals in a power amp, ie, the capacitors in an Adcom five-cha... | |
| Swapped long wall to short wall and now I am having some big issues You don't mention what speakers you are trying to set up in the new configuration. I did the same thing years ago, with the opposite result. You may have to move your speakers away from the wall behind them more to get the benefit of their new loc... | |
| Speaker Recommendations budget of <6k new or used I suggest trying some vintage Tannoys. Monitor Golds, or HPD's. I think you would be pleased with them.Good luck, regards,Dan | |
| I am the most lucky guy Thomas, you are indeed a lucky guy. It's too bad I couldn't make it to your home a couple of months back. I've also made some positive changes recently, but nothing on the scale of what you've done. I wonder what my system would look like had I yo... |