jazzerdave
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| which turntable to buy for $1500 best value ? I really dig my Pro-ject II Xperience Classic ($1500 new). The Blue Point No 2 cart that comes with it is a pretty good value. My deck was used, but really well maintained (the previous owner switched out the BP2 for a Sumiko Blackbird, so the car... | |
| Looking for brighter tubes You'd probably find the NOS German tubes to be your best bet (Telefunken or Siemens). | |
| QUASAR ELECTRONICS OR OTHER AMP KITS Check out tubes4hifi.com. The SP12 and SP14 are great preamp kits. They also offer upgraded Dynaco ST-70 and MK III kits that I feel are better than the AVA Ultravalve ST-70 build. In another price range altogether are kits from Audio Note. I've o... | |
| decware err radial speakers I haven't the the most recent Ohms, so you may want to consider those (you're not going to find better than a 120-day money back policy). I prefer my ERR's to the Ohms I've heard in the past, but that was just the original Ohm Walsh, and they were... | |
| decware err radial speakers I'm listening to them right now. The soundstage is very wide, and the sweet spot is much bigger. Unlike offerings like electrostatics, you can actually tell that there's another speaker room if you're standing well outside of the listening positio... | |
| Why do NOS Tubes sound better than new tubes? Rodman makes a good point. There are a couple companies out there that make excellent new productions; however, EAT for instance is limited to the KT88, 300B, ECC88, and the ECC803S, and that's not all that uncommon. Heck, the only current product... | |
| Why do NOS Tubes sound better than new tubes? As far as the sound is concerned, I'll attribute the decline to significantly decrease competition and demand (like many of you have already indicated). For the build quality, durability, and lifespan, I think it's the shift to a "disposable" soci... | |
| Buzz in my Will Vincent amp Have you already isolated the noise to the amp? If not disconnect the amp from the preamp (leave it connected to the speakers), put short plugs in the RCA's, and turn the amp on. If you still here the noise, it's coming from the amp. If not, then ... | |
| Using old speaker cables for an IC First of all, mixing copper and silver is fine and in fact quite common. The vast majority of cables made have brass ends with gold plating, and brass is a much poorer conductor than copper or silver.As far as the speaker wire to IC conversion, ye... | |
| DIY ICs I've used the BL-1 before as well. I think it's really good if you really need shielding. | |
| 12ax7 vs 5751 Xti - The input making a bigger difference than the drivers is a common conclusion. It definitely works that way in my headphone amp. | |
| DIY ICs I've been experimenting with cable designs a lot lately. I've been most successful using solid-core silver plated copper in a braid. I do a normal three-way braid but with 2 24 AWG runs for each leg of the braid (look up Kimber's KCTG to see how i... | |
| 12ax7 vs 5751 Mcpherson -If you're only considering gain factor, the 12AX7 family falls like this:12AX7 - 1005751 - 70 12AT7 - 6012AY7 - 4512AV7 - 4112AU7 - 19Many circuits can function with any of these, but straying too far from the original gain isn't usuall... | |
| Need Help with Vintage console player - New to LPs I would contact Paul Grzybek of Tube Audio Design. He's stopped making new products under the TAD brand but still repairs/restores vintage Fisher gear. I think he mostly works mostly with tuners, pre's, amps, and receivers, but if anyone would kno... | |
| Need Schematic for a Dynaco Sca-210R I don't have one, but I would try to contact Van Alstyne or Joe Curcio. Curcio concentrate mostly on the Dynaco tubed products, but he may have access to the manual (or at least know someone who does). I already checked hifiengine.com, and it's no... |