larryi
Responses from larryi
| Favorite religious song How about Greg Brown’s “Jesus and Elvis”; Jesus had some water, said “wine would be better yet” Elvis picked up his guitar and made all the women wet. | |
| Favorite religious song My favorite Dylan religious work is “Every Grain of Sand.” | |
| Favorite religious song I would add Pearls Before Swine: “The Jeweler.” | |
| Life of KT 150 Tubes grossman616, I think the original poster explained that after one channel failed, he moved the tubes to the other monobloc amp and suffered the same failure. This means a bad tube in the first amp. Whether or not that amps themselves are damaged... | |
| Favorite religious song For religious subject of lyrics: Randy Newman's "God's Song (that is why I love mankind)" For liturgical classical music: "Bach Bminor Mass," Bach "St. Mathew Passion," Mozart "Requiem," Michael Haydn "Requiem," Penderecki "Credo" Jazz: "A... | |
| Warm, rich, smooth, 3d tube integrated amp, budget $6000 I am a broken record on this, but, the integrated tube amp that I am a BIG fan of is the Synthesis Audio A-40 (40-watt, pushpull, KT-66 tube). It comes with a killer good DAC included. For a price a bit out of your range the Synthesis A-100 (100... | |
| Reed 5T Opinions lewn, True, even with perfect zenith alignment, only at the null point would the contact area of the cartridge along the line of tangency. But, the maximum error at other points will still be relatively small, whereas, zenith error in manufactur... | |
| Reed 5T Opinions I think you could do zenith with a regular USB by first aligning the cantilever horizontally or vertically in the field of view, and then changing the focus to look for the contact edge. It would be even easier if the USB is capable of taking mul... | |
| Reed 5T Opinions The 5a is based on a design like the Thales arm and so it has additional pivots to locate the arm. That is not the case with the 5T. With the 5T the arm’s motion is only restricted by conventional pivots. When the arm is slightly out of tangent... | |
| Reed 5T Opinions I saw the 5T at a show. The base looks like it is too large for my Basis Debut. What a relief, I won’t be tempted. It is a thing of beauty, and the engineering appears to account for and mitigate all of the shortcomings of linear tracking desig... | |
| Reed 5T Opinions The Wallytools person I spoke to at a show said thar the $1250 microscope is used primarily to set VTA/SRA but that it is not useful for reading zenith. For that, you send your cartridge to them and they use an ultra expensive microscope and give ... | |
| How do you arrange the order of your records? I have them broken down into large genre groups--Classical, Jazz, Pop/Rock, and for Classical it is alphabetical by composer (I have cross reference index for records with multiple composers), the rest by primary performer. I have too many record... | |
| A quick question related to Amperex Bugle Boys Hook the Amplitrex to your laptop and it will trace the tube. I have never bothered to use mine in that mode. I like that it gives you real measurements, plus the expected values, and for ultra idiots like myself, it provides the "good," "weak,"... | |
| Preamp match for my First Watt F-7 amp. When you say "decent sound", do you mean adequate volume level, or do you mean that the sound is otherwise unsatisfactory until you hit a high volume level? What I am asking is if sufficient gain is your only concern. If what you seek is more ga... | |
| A quick question related to Amperex Bugle Boys Even if the tester is properly calibrated, it is hard to estimate remaining life of any tube that tests strong--at or near the expected value. That is because of the way tubes perform with age. When brand new, a tube will typically test very str... |