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| Does it make sense to use 6k$ Nos tube with 5K$ tube amplifier? I suspect you were not as determined to screw up as some of us are. At a local shop that employs part-time high school students, one such employee managed to insert one of a "matched pair" of Western Electric 300B's the wrong way, the result bein... | |
| Does it make sense to use 6k$ Nos tube with 5K$ tube amplifier? I am sure fancy sockets are available, but, I know builders who are particular about the sockets they like and the ones they like are vintage sockets. The sockets can be tightened up, but they supposedly don't stand up to frequent re-tensioning. ... | |
| Does it make sense to use 6k$ Nos tube with 5K$ tube amplifier? I don't know if it is that good an idea to go swapping tubes in and out for special occasions vs. regular listening. Tube sockets have a somewhat limited life, as far as insertions and removals, so frequent swapping means shortening the useful li... | |
| Who makes great active preamps ? Tube or solid state or hybrid. audiog | |
| Audiogon member suggestions for a speaker that sounds good at low volume!!! You are looking of a "Japanese" audio system. Many Japanese listeners live in small apartments and have to keep the volume down (particularly because they are such polite people). That is one of the reasons they put gigantic horn systems in thei... | |
| Who makes great active preamps ? Tube or solid state or hybrid. Jond mentioned the Aldo preamp from Deja Vu Audio (in Tyson's Corner Virginia). These are custom built to fit whatever particular need you have. Mine is built with remotely controlled volume and two Daven pots for balance control. It also is fu... | |
| Does it make sense to use 6k$ Nos tube with 5K$ tube amplifier? The original WE300B's last a VERY long time in amps designed to run that particular tube. I would check to make sure the LM amp is not running the tube hot like many current amps do to extract that little bit of extra power. I agree that origina... | |
| Help with a suggestion for using audio equipment in extremely humid climate conditions I lived in Hawaii in a house on a hill where strong winds carried air laden with both moisture and salt (coconut trees would die from salt damage). Any equipment left outdoors would be subject to accelerated corrosion. But, indoors, corrosion wa... | |
| Preamps with separate L/R volume controls I used a YBA linestage many years ago that had a troublesome remote control. I can't recall exactly what was the problem, but, I believe it had to do with the left and right channel becoming out of sync so that one had to constantly reset the thi... | |
| Anyone had the equipment customized ? The problem with some "modifiers" is that they simply "upgrade" parts by substituting more expensive and currently trendy parts without considering the impact on sound. Some parts choices, particularly with higher end gear, is determined by voici... | |
| Anyone had the equipment customized ? My tube amp and linestage were from a builder that only does built-to-order units. For the linestage, I could specify whether it would actually include a phono-stage, whether the output would be capacitor coupled or transformer coupled (or both o... | |
| Preamps with separate L/R volume controls In most linestage/preamps with a balance control, the signal for each channel is going through two attenuators, one being the balance control and the other being the volume control which has two separate potentiometers to attenuate each channel. ... | |
| One Amp To ‘Rule’ Them All.... Brettmcee,Even if we disregard opinion on sound quality, I don't think you will find any particular amp that a majority of people have actually heard. I bet even the most common and long-lived amps have not been heard by more than 10% of the popu... | |
| One Amp To ‘Rule’ Them All.... The perfect amplifier would be the one that works best with the particular speaker to which it would be paired. For studio speakers, like those made by Genelec, the perfect amplifier, to me, would be one that puts out 0.000 watts/channel.It is cr... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? Gawdbless,Strumenti Acustici de Precisione no longer exists, but the owner/designer, Vincenzo Fratello, has a new company called DolceVita Audio. It is even harder to find references to that company. A dealer in my Northern Virginia area, Deja ... |