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| Do speakers need to be re-broken in? AER BD 3's are really nice full range drivers. Do you have any specific plans on how they are going to be used? | |
| How to bias a tube amp with a Multimeter I thought that turning the screw would create a contact that would activate the probe point. Your amp otherwise does not appear to have a switch to activate bias testing. I could not think of any other reason why the test point has a groove that... | |
| How to bias a tube amp with a Multimeter To be clear, I recommended trying to screw the test points, which have indentations for a blade-type screw driver; I was NOT talking about the adjustment pots. Most bias adjustments are measured in milliamps, not millivolts. When you adjust the b... | |
| How to bias a tube amp with a Multimeter On your multimeter, make sure the black lead is in the COM jack and the red one is in the proper jack for measuring voltage. On some meters there are different jacks for the red to be inserted in depending on the function you select. If your met... | |
| How to bias a tube amp with a Multimeter I am not familiar with your amp. I take it there is no button or switch that needs to be turned on to do the biasing. It appears that the common or ground probe goes into the center test point and the positive probe goes to the test point on eit... | |
| Adding tubes to integrated setup I don’t think of tubes as a kind of flavoring, such that adding a touch here or there would really give one a proper taste of tube sound. It would make more sense to go with a pure tube integrated. The most significant change comes from the outp... | |
| Are You Old Enough to Remember Those Jaw-Dropping Manufacturer Demos? I watched Kirkmus do his thing and heard the results. His system works very well but the process is crazy long and tedious. It would be something reserved for only favorite records. | |
| Are You Old Enough to Remember Those Jaw-Dropping Manufacturer Demos? The worst demonstration I witnessed was a dealer showing off the prowess of Klipschorns. These extremely efficient speakers were hooked up to 350 wpc Phase Linear 700 amps. Before I could object, the desler cranked the volume till the meters on ... | |
| Are You Old Enough to Remember Those Jaw-Dropping Manufacturer Demos? At Capital Audiofest, a few years ago, a local D.C.-area dealer set up a room with a really tiny tube amp, a laptop for a source, and tiny ProAc Tablettes for the speaker. A lot of people commented on how great that modest system sounded. The fi... | |
| Are You Old Enough to Remember Those Jaw-Dropping Manufacturer Demos? I saw the Dual turntable demonstration you described. It wasn't the playing upside down that was amazing to me. It was the huge up and down motion of the spring-hung table. The motion was smooth, so that is why the playing was not disturbed, bu... | |
| Hang em High and Gilligan's Island There is this famous mashup called Stairway to Gilligan's Island: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8oGz0mxwks | |
| Capital Audiofest Coming Up! Mapman, The new North American distributor for Synthesis Audio will be at the show. I don't know what amplifiers will be at the show, but, most of their lineup is both excellent in sound and reasonably priced. I hope they show the A40 and A100 ... | |
| Help Deciding On New Speakers For Small Room, $10k budget A lot of fine speakers have been recommended here, but, one of the requirements is sound that is somewhat soft on top. Some of these speakers are on the brighter side. | |
| Drinking Songs playlest... What am I missing? Merle Haggard's "Back to the Barrooms" is pretty much a whole album devoted to this subject. | |
| Seeking a Warm 12AX7 Tube for Preamp trivema, I am pretty much in agreement on your assessment of 12AX7 tubes. I currently run extremely expensive Telefunken ECC803S (the real deal) tubes in my phono stage. It is a very dynamic and vivid tube, but, it is not for someone looking fo... |