jasonbourne71
Responses from jasonbourne71
| Upgrade thoughts Speakers can give the best bang-for-buck improvement because they are the least neutral of components! Yet a change can too often be a sideways move! Sonus Faber has a house sound. You could audition a larger model from SF. | |
| Dr. Feickert Analogue Woodpecker turntable Sound advice! A turntable is basically a seismograph reading those minute vibrations engraved on a plastic disk. Better mechanical construction costs more! | |
| Am I broken? Am I stuck? Do I have to return my audiophile card now? Stop being so neurotic! Tomorrow go make the trade. Why torment yourself? | |
| Matched Tubes Quicksilver Line Pre Preamp tubes like the 12A*7, 6S*7,6922/6DJ8/ECC88 don’t really require matching because the amplification factor/mu of each triode half is usually very close and current draw varies little between these small-signal tubes. | |
| Matching the cartridge to the phono stage The Hana SL will work fine into that phono stage. You don't list the gain. I assume it is around 65db. That is a typical figure for phono stages for lomc cartridges. | |
| Will China become the poor man’s dealer for high end audio? Switzerland with CH Precision and DarTZeel stands atop the ultra-hifi business! China will never contend in that segment! | |
| Did I do a good thing or not? Brain fog in the morning made me misstate the inductance of the Shure's coils. I know the difference between micro and millihenries. Anyway, I'd rather listen to a low-inductance Grado MI than a Shure. That high coil inductance makes MM's very sen... | |
| Did I do a good thing or not? With its coil inductance of around 400 microhenries it won't have the speed and snap on transients of lomc cartridges. I have one NIB and a spare Jico stylus. Arm choice is important! A Grace 707 with its straight lightweight arm tube would work w... | |
| Tube arch Change the output tubes when the silver getter flash starts turning brown. | |
| Big Surprise in NOPE During the late 60's the KLH Nines were considered the ne plus ultra of speakers and were correspondingly expensive ($3K) - appropriate for rich rock stars like Jim Morrison to own! | |
| Big Surprise in NOPE There is a scene in The Doors where I recognised KLH Nines. I have a pair and also that Empire TT I mentioned above. | |
| Big Surprise in NOPE I spied an Empire TT (208?) In a scene from the movie "What's New Pussycat?". | |
| Quality power question #2 Those wall warts are fine! Rega knows what they are doing! No need to spend hundreds on a linear supply, contrary to what the "golden ears" crowd claims. | |
| 300b lovers @lynn_olson : that's such a good idea! I'd buy a set for my pair of Dynaco Mk3's! An octal-base power triode would sell well! | |
| Power cable from wall socket to power strip Nothing else sounds as good as those Furutech wall outlets! |