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| High Fidelity -The Movie I loved the top five list automatic disqualification for being used in "The Big Chill." | |
| Cartridge Upgrade Recommendations I am very familiar with most parts of your system. The Garrard 301 and Ortofon tonearm is a terrific combination that I've heard with the Koetsu Rosewood Signature Platinum cartridge. I've also heard your Synthesis electronics with Audio Note sp... | |
| Would you buy a tube amp if you were unable to use vintage tubes in it ? Inna, You have a steady 120 volts and that should be good because gear is made for that voltage. In some parts of the country, one can see much higher voltage, such as 125-127. That high a voltage would be of concern for some, but not all tube... | |
| Favorite Song Lyrics of All Time. What Say You? Another good lyrics writer is John Hiatt. His observations are quite keen and funny. | |
| Would you buy a tube amp if you were unable to use vintage tubes in it ? If you can't hear the difference between say an Amperex Bugle Boy 12AX& and a vintage Telefunken ECC803s and current manufacture tubes, either there is something wrong with your gear, or your ears, or both. I don't go crazy with tube rolling ... | |
| Would you buy a tube amp if you were unable to use vintage tubes in it ? I don’t think you need to go so low, 115 volts would be within any specified operating voltage and it would be significantly gentler on tubes. Too low and performance may suffer and might actually be a problem if your amp has voltage regulators. ... | |
| Would you buy a tube amp if you were unable to use vintage tubes in it ? The 40,000 hour figure comes from original WesternElectric 300B operations and does not necessarily apply to all 300Bs. Some, such as Elrogs were notorious for quick deaths. As for the new reissues, it is to early to tell, but at least they have... | |
| Speaker set up for more than 1 person Yes, as I have said above, the toe-in approach is, at best, a compromise, but, there are few things that can be done for what the OP is hoping to accomplish--it is crazy to suggest buying different speakers, for example. I recall that there was... | |
| Would you buy a tube amp if you were unable to use vintage tubes in it ? I would have some doubts about any such extreme longevity unless the tubes are run VERY gently. There are some people who claim their table radio has been left on constantly for decades so it might be true that some tubes can last for a very long... | |
| Would you buy a tube amp if you were unable to use vintage tubes in it ? Fifteen years for the amp and linestage and the tubes that were put in those two components were old to begin with--they tested good, but prior usage was unknown. Both components run the tubes very gently. I also run tubes in a headphone amp and... | |
| Favorite Song Lyrics of All Time. What Say You? jimijam, You should have quoted from the Nilsson song that was not played on the radio when it was released: "You're breaking my heart You'r tearing it apart So FU." | |
| Favorite Song Lyrics of All Time. What Say You? I agree with James McMurtry as a writer of great lyrics, although one would have to quote the entire song to fully appreciate the lyrics. His are not one-liner lyrics. Greg Brown also writes great lyrics, again not one-liners and a couple of so... | |
| Help me choose a phono pre If you are looking to try low output moving cartridges, you will be looking for something that can do about it 65 db of gain. You could also do a MM phono stage then later add a step up transformer (SUT) when you get a low output cartridge, but t... | |
| Would you buy a tube amp if you were unable to use vintage tubes in it ? If you bought it new with new tubes, you liked it with new tubes; if it turns out it sounds even better with old tubes, that is just a bonus. Most of the time, I prefer carefully selected vintage tubes. But, it can be quite a process auditioning... | |
| About Koetsu Rosewood I don't know about your table and tonearm, but if it is like most vintage tables, the arm would not be ideal for a Koetsu which prefers a quite heavy arm with very good pivots (meaning low friction but very tight so they don't rattle). The Koetsu... |