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| Retubing power amp You will, after some use, need new tubes for the amp. So, buy a new set now, regardless of whether or not the current set is worn out. Once in a while (say every six months or so), replace the current set with the new set and compare the sound. Wh... | |
| tonearms with VTA-towers for true "VTAF" Axel,Consider the pivot of the arm to be at the center of a circle and the stylus at a point on the circle. Now imagine a change in position of the stylus representing the change in thickness of a record. The movement could be represented by the a... | |
| tonearms with VTA-towers for true "VTAF" I suppose that the easiest implementation to do repeatable VTA change would be the digital readout approach of the Kuzma. The other useful approach would involve changing VTA by remote control (Air Tangent). The VTA tower on the Triplanar and othe... | |
| DAC with the best midrange ever..... I have no idea how anyone would define best midrange, much less, best midrange in the mind of someone else. All I can say is that I have heard, and liked the Aero Capitole, I use to own the SCD-1, and I currently own a Naim CD555. I like what the ... | |
| Rolled some 12ax7's recently... Bicycle Man,The ebay price listing for the ECC803S is quite high, but, is there something else you object to about the listing? Are these fakes? Whether or not a tube is the "best" is a matter of system synergy and taste. I found it a bit obnoxiou... | |
| Speed problems with Pro-Ject Debut III Palasr,Yes, I am aware that it is a synchronous motor. I was trying to account for what the poster said. He is NOT using an outboard power supply for the motor, and I doubt that the built in circuitry regenerates AC and could be outputting the wro... | |
| Koetsu vs Dynavector vs Lyra?? If you like the Koetsu Rosewood sound, another Koetsu would be the safest bet. The Onyx Platinum I've heard, though is not nearly as warm sounding as a Rosewood, so there is a signficant difference within that family.Still, the Titan would be a mu... | |
| Tube testers- I've heard grumbling of a ...... I've owned the Amplitrex for quite some time now. It is a terrific, easy to use, reasonably versatile tester. It can, coupled to a computer, even be used as a curve tracer. I have been told by a friend that this tester tests at full power, unlike ... | |
| Is too much power in an amp really a problem? The sentiment that one can always benefit from more power, may be true, assuming nothing else is lost in attaining more power, is often grounded on demonstrations that live music has an enormous dynamic range. In particular, a piano, and symphonic... | |
| Speed problems with Pro-Ject Debut III The motor is, I believe, a 16v motor. So, it already has, built in, a means to step the 230v down. Just plugging it into a 120v socket would mean that the motor was probably receiving only half the voltage it needed, so it was running slow for tha... | |
| Speed problems with Pro-Ject Debut III Elizabeth is correct, the pulleys have a different diameter. The speed of an AC motor is determined by the frequency of the alternating current, not voltage. The converter only changes the 230v to 120v, but does not change the 50 hz to 60 hz frequ... | |
| 2a3 tubes I have a number of 2a3 tubes, including Sophia Electrics from quite a few years back, Shuguang, JJs, and both Emission Labs meshplates and Emission Labs solid plates. I like the Emission Labs meshplates the most, followed by the solid plates. The ... | |
| Static or line voltage instability Dedicated lines will isolate your system from hash feeding back from other appliances on the line and reduce the voltage drop caused by other appliances drawing on the line. But, if your whole house got a nasty spike, it would not do anything for ... | |
| cart measurement vs quoted spec Axelwahl,Thanks for the further information. I think there is a good possibility that your cartridge is "slightly" defective. The "buzz" on Ortofon is that quality control is not one of their strong points. A misalignment of any of the generating ... | |
| cart measurement vs quoted spec Axelwahl,If the cartridge in question is the Ortofon PW, is this the same cartridge that you praised as the best cartridge you have heard apart from the Transfiguration Orpheus, or is this another iteration? I agree that your measurements are disa... |