johnss
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| vinyl versus digital redux "I find this statement suspect and can only assume a mistake in the setup." Too funny, thanks for the humor. As you noted correctly, clocks are used to sync all the gear, but that is only one function. The other function is to reduce drift. Look a... | |
| vinyl versus digital redux The other comment I forgot to add, is regardless of the digital sampling freq. and bit depth, most commercial recordings released on digital use quite a bit of compression in the signal chain, which is sad. One of the main advantages of digital, ... | |
| vinyl versus digital redux @seventies, this topic has been beat to death over the years; many claiming digital is more pure than analogue and analogue has so many colorations that don't exist in digital. If you are simply ripping your LPs for ease of use, that is one thing.... | |
| Upgrade capacitors in tube amplifier? @chinook9, There are 7 film caps in there. The two on either side of the chassis appear to be the coupling caps. The two towards the front of the chassis appear to be doing additional filtering for the input tubes, they are tied to what appears to... | |
| Is static the culprit? would doubt its caused by static, would vote for one or more cold solder joints somewhere in the signal path. | |
| Phono preamp worth it with MM cartridges? Roger,a good phono stage makes an improvement with either a MM or LOMC cart. There are quite a few good ones out there, just depends on how deep you want to go into the woods. In the sub 2k range look for a used Manley Chinook. Does very well with... | |
| New PrimaLuna Evo's On any of the PL amps, HP, EVO, Non-HP, you have not heard them until you get those plastic film coupling caps replaced with copper foils from Jensen or Jupiter. Takes you much closer to the sound of the VAC amps. | |
| Genalex Gold Lion 12AX7 - different grades? Would agree with @milpai, go with the psvanes from vivatubes. vivia tubes is also carrying the latest vanes, the new art series.. Have just ordered a quad set for myself but have not tried em yet. | |
| Glue from inner sleeves leeching onto records @rich121,yes have seen this myself too on a few earlier releases from Cisco and a few Classic records. Once I found this on one, ditched the inner sleeve on all of the records from that vendor and replaced with new discwasher type sleeves. Also of... | |
| Newproduction power tubes: Reliablity have not tried the JJ KT88s or svetlanas, so can't offer any opinion on them. But have tried dozens each of the electro harmonix KT88 and 6550, the Mullard KT88, and Tungsol 6550 all from Russia. All are pretty reliable, have some sonic differenc... | |
| Newproduction power tubes: Reliablity @mozartfan, This is quite the post. I have bought dozens and dozens and dozens of both Russian and Chinese made power tubes (mostly KT88s, but also many others). China has come a long way in their power tube reliability issues of previous years. T... | |
| Options for ridding records of static electricity @ masi61,are you sure its static? I would venture to guess you have not cleaned all the crud out of the grooves. Doing so will really lower the noise floor. | |
| Perhaps a Stupid Question @jrpnde, I would do what millercarbon suggests, but then look into going two steps further. 1. replace the tone arm wire with litz2. replace the crap headshell leads with cardas or some other litz. once you do that you will be shocked at super lev... | |
| Bass Issues you need to run a room freq plot as your system is currently configured and see what the speakers and sub in the room are currently doing. Once you have that data, you can determine what you need to adjust to get a flatter response. Dont be surpri... | |
| Tubes? If you are going to try tube power, I would be looking for a VTL amp if you are trying to drive the Salons and get any SPL out of them. VTL MB-450 monoblocks do 450 watts RMS per channel, or go for the VTL Siegfrieds if you want 650 RMS watts per ... |