kirkus
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| name that tube ???? What? Are you guys kidding me???????Audiofeil, why don't you explain to me the electrical mechanism by which a 5Y3 will make a 45 "snap, crackle, [&] pop". Does the 45 look around, and upon seeing another directly-heated cathode . . . com... | |
| name that tube "Goodbye 45 tube"??? Give me a break.A 10-watt tube in SE class A has . . . what, 250-300v on the plate at 35-30mA? So changing the B+ by 35v will change the plate dissapation on the output tube by about 1-1/2 watts . . . differences in transcondu... | |
| New preamps making new claims. Actually the economics work like this: When a manufacturer introduces a new version of the same product, then all the retailers/distributors have to get rid of their display model and show the new version, and they are frequently under contract to... | |
| Life without a remote If you really want to go hard-core, try using two vintage mono preamps, and re-balancing every time you adjust the volume . . . now THAT's a drag. | |
| Good Analog EQ To your original question :) . . . good analog EQs. For a great, flexible hi-fi oriented unit, the McIntosh MQ104 and MQ107 are both very good, and they're pretty cheap and plentiful used from i.e. old Mac dealers, and Audio Classics. They're a bi... | |
| New McIntosh system problem... need advice If your Arcam has pre-outs and main-ins, then you can use its preamp output with the Mac amp, and the Mac preamp with the Arcam amp. Might give you an idea what each of your new components sound like individually.Second, you might play around with... | |
| name that tube No, but 5V4s and 5Y3s are basically interchangable . . . the 5V4 IIRC has a bit higher current capability and a little less forward voltage drop, but the differences aren't huge. | |
| Chime in.What's the Best Cassette Recorder ever ? So I'm a bit surprised about how long-lived this thread is, and got to thinking . . . what is the particular nostalgia that we have for our cassette decks?The thing that I remember about cassettes was that it was a a way to share our pride and ent... | |
| 232 Connection for Preamp - How Does It Work? An RS232 connection is this context is most commonly used for connecting to a remote-control system from a company such as Crestron or AMX. Such systems are extremely flexible, but they're really NOT designed to be programmed by the end user - pro... | |
| Chime in.What's the Best Cassette Recorder ever ? In the past I have heard the Nakamichi machines most all of them along with the Revox decks as well and I cannot recall the noise levels down as much as this machine can do along with the dynamic range as well.A big, big part of this is the dbx no... | |
| Fluctuations of the loudness of speakers??? What you're describing are the classic symptoms of a bad speaker relay in a power amp. That is:- Can appear in either or both channels- Changes if the amplifier is cycled on and off- Much more pronounced at low volume levels- Cranking up the volum... | |
| Anyone find the Linn Lingo too fast? Kirkus, would this be the 50 or 60 year-old response?I think that's about the first time I've been accused of being a Boomer . . . and I'm not too sure how I feel about it :)But if you feel that your LP12 sounds a bit bright or edgy, then the powe... | |
| Anyone find the Linn Lingo too fast? Do you mean, literally . . . as in the platter spins too fast, making the pitch too high? In this case, no. The speed for the LP12 still needs to be set in the usual manner, by adjusting the motor angle and using a Speedchecker or other suitable s... | |
| slew rate and rise time Actually Musicnoise, I think the origin of the term "damping factor" for audio amplifiers has much humbler roots than classical Control Theory. In these days of direct-coupled amps, it makes sense to specify output impedance, but when virtually al... | |
| Preamplifier power supply I see what you're asking.Power-supplies are commonly separate from the main chassis usually either for UL approval (when pre-fabricated wall-warts are used) or to reduce magnetic coupling from the power transformer into the audio circuitry. In the... |