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| What's the greatest bargain in SET these days? If the De Capo is easy to drive, that is actually more important than the efficiency rating. I have heard low wattage tube amps driving the very easy load 15 ohm Rogers LS3/5a speaker that is extremely inefficient (low 80's for efficiency) and the... | |
| What's the greatest bargain in SET these days? Rebbi,As long as you go into this venture with the right frame of mind--you are willing to experiment and accept an unfavorable result and willing to accept a bit of financial loss if the choice does not work out--I say by all means do the experim... | |
| What's the greatest bargain in SET these days? I own two low-wattage pushpull amps: a 5 wpc amp using two 349 tubes per channel and a 4 watt amp using two 45 tubes per channel, and I own a parallel SET amp that puts out 6 wpc from two 2a3 tubes per channel. All of these amps deliver adequate l... | |
| SET vs PSET Hi Kenny,Generally speaking, the PSET approach will get you more power, but, not the same amount of power that one would get by using the same kind of tube in a pushpull configuration.Also, how much more power you would get with two output tubes v... | |
| SET vs PSET Saki70,The PSETs I have heard included the Audionote Kageki (the one I own), Audionote Gaku-On and Sogon. I have also heard two custom-built amps, one a 300B amp the other a 45 amp. All of them sounded really good.I have heard quite a few SET amps... | |
| SET vs PSET Yes, no phase splitting, but as Charles1dad mentioned, there is the issue of one tube ending up doing most of the work. I know of an amp builder/designer who mentioned how hard it was for him to get PSETs to work because of this problem. But, he d... | |
| Stand out phono stages I have heard the Naim and it sounded pretty good (in a friend's system). My own preference is for tube electronics, but the Naim was decent sounding--dynamic and lively, and with just a little bit of the artificial "edge" to the initial attack of ... | |
| Nube question - what does a tonearm upgrade do Doug, Good post, and I think we are in agreement. A few years ago, a friend got into vinyl for the first time. His first table was the cheapest Project table, but, the cartridge he bought was an Ortofon Per Winfield, something FAR from a starter c... | |
| Nube question - what does a tonearm upgrade do The tonearm has a number of tasks to perform. First, the bearing must low in friction to allow for free movement of the cartidge but rigid enought so that vibration imparted by the stylus movement to the body of the cartridge does not cause the ar... | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth I would never tap the arm itself when it is in the playing position for fear of over-stressing the cantilever. Instead, tap the record surface near the cartridge. A good table/arm will quickly dampen out the energy imparted into groove that is the... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? I find the Eagles "Get Over It" to be pretty funny. It is about people unwilling to take responsibility for their lives, and instead, hope to cash in on whatever "victim" status they can claim. The last few lines are:Complain about the presentBlam... | |
| Stylus cleaner Rodman,I have seen cartridges with mysterious goo up near the cartridge body end of the cantilever. I don't know how that happened, so I was relating what one cartridge manufacturer said. I never have a problem myself, but then again, I don't appl... | |
| Stylus cleaner I've used both Stylast treatment and their stylus cleaner without problems. With the stylus treatment, one should take care to only apply a very small amount directly to the stylus and avoid slathering it all over the cantilever. The fluid dries t... | |
| Silent Running Audio vs Harmonic Resolution System I have seen various SRA products, including racks and bases, and they are all well-built and finished products. The rack I saw reminded me of the old Zoethecus racks.I am also familiar with the products of a number of other companies, such as Symp... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? The last two verses (the rest is pretty memorable too) of Randy Newman's "God's Song"The Christians and the Jews were having a jamboreeThe Buddhists and the Hindus joined on satellite tvThey picked the four greatest priests And they becan to speak... |