jasonbourne52
Responses from jasonbourne52
| Fostex tweeter FT48D Just get a pair of Altec Valencia's! The favorite speaker of the late Art Dudley! I owned a pair years ago and stupidly sold them! | |
| Are most tube preamps ‘ultra linear’? DHT triodes are almost never used as preamp tubes because the gain is way too low - plus noise is a problem! | |
| Are most tube preamps ‘ultra linear’? @audioman58 : All tube preamps operate in Class A! They have a single tube connected to the output straight - or through a cathode follower or a transformer! | |
| Are Quicksilver power tube amps in the same league as VAC, VTL, BAT, ARC, ...? Mike Sanders of Quicksilver makes excellent tube gear! His mono amps are particularly fine! An easy recommendation! | |
| Are most tube preamps ‘ultra linear’? Ultralinear circuit only applies to a tetrode/pentode tube amp with an output transformer having a screen tap. | |
| Class A1 845 SET An 845 in Class A1 will do about 12 - 15 watts at 1% distortion. More in Class A2 using grid current. | |
| Speakers Damaged via FedEx, A Neverending Love Story I must be lucky! Over the past five years all the many speakers bought have arrived safely using USPS, FedEx and UPS. Including two pairs of Quads and a pair of Snell Type A's. | |
| cassettes CAN sound better than vinyl. So nobody here has a DCC? Digital Compact Cassette. Less bits than on a CD but all the mechanical problems that plague analog cassettes gone! Plus there are very good commercial tapes made from digital sources! I have the Sony DCC deck and some ta... | |
| You own a store, you sell 2 brands, which? Quad for the speakers. Bedini for the electronics. I have owned both together! | |
| Why the difference in resale value? Opportunistic sellers! | |
| Luxman flashing power light and relay clicking Send it to a competent repair service. In New England that would be Audio Classics in Vestal, NY. | |
| How to get into high end digital? (Feeding a DAC) A $500 Cambridge CXC transport + a $300 Khadas DAC is a formidable combination! | |
| How to get into high end digital? (Feeding a DAC) @henry53: parts costs to build DACs are are in the hundreds at most! Four-figure and up DACs are high-profit items! Don't forget these companies are into it to make money! | |
| How to get into high end digital? (Feeding a DAC) @pindac : a coax digital cable should be no less than 1.5 meters in length to avoid reflections. | |
| If there’s an audiophile exit ramp, this ain’t it… Stop listening to your monkey brain. Sit back, close your eyes and go with the flow! |