jimbennet
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| Rebuilding Vintage Tube Amps for Best Sound K40Y-9 are getting scarce. Most are 200 volt. You have less than a year before stocks dry up. You can use common .033uF for .022uF to .05uF. | |
| Best Vintage Speakers for Classical & Jazz music W60s are great speakers. Cornwall are a good option. | |
| Mullard EL37/6L6GC Tube Rolling Question hard to beat RCA 6L6 black plates. They will take 450 volts. | |
| Which one would you buy $3200 is insane. Never sell that amp. Amp is not even that good anyway with cheap audio transformers. | |
| Rebuilding Vintage Tube Amps for Best Sound The Mil-Spec K40Y-9 were tested to have no leakage until tested at twice the rated voltage. The caps will not leak however many vintage PIO do leak. | |
| Vintage Tube Gear Priced Insane Now Very few eBay listings have an offer option. | |
| Rebuilding Vintage Tube Amps for Best Sound BTW- My background. I used to rebuild and upgrade tube vintage amps and receivers. I quickly gained a following due to posts on Audiokarma. A famous rebuilder got replies my upgrades sounded better than his rebuilds. The owner of Audiokarma quickl... | |
| Rebuilding Vintage Tube Amps for Best Sound Some prefer the very slight holographic sound of carbon resistors vs the ultra clean metal oxide resistor sound. | |
| A question about tube rolling Tubes make a big difference in sound quality and different tubes will improve all amps. In other words different amp does not need a certain brand. Best I heard are JJ E83CC (12AX7) and outperforms Mullard long plate. Gold Lion KT88. GE 6BQ5. Sylv... | |
| Scott 222C Love I never heard a mediocre tube Acott. No so with some other tube amps. | |
| Cartridge AT-95SH, AT-95ML or AT-120EB I decided VM540ML is best bet. | |
| Audio Technica VM530en vs AT-95C I decided VM540ML is best bet. | |
| Cartridge AT-95SH, AT-95ML or AT-120EB Fluance Elite HiFi Vinyl Turntable, Rebuilt Pioneer SX-82 with built-in preamp. | |
| New Turntable. Seller just has wrong price. Afterall it is new. | |
| New Turntable. Errr, eBay has money back guarantee. |