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| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again My statement stands as written. Why the difference between the two countries is probably explained in your post. I have had some bad experiences with merchandise coming from Canada into the US. In one case, my turntable was delivered to someone in... | |
| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again Elliot, I'm sure you'll be fine. But the argument regarding size puzzles me. It would seem that those domestic vintage pieces on the eBay page you cited would be about the same size as the unit you are buying. Just saying. A 500C chassis is lar... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. MC's thoughts are a minor consideration in thinking about the magnitude of the skating force. The most important cause of the skating force (after friction) is the tracking angle error, which is varying in terms of degrees of angle, all across th... | |
| Best cost no object tube phono The best phono stages I have ever heard are the Atma-sphere MP1, Raul’s and Jose’s 3160 phono line preamp, and the Ypsilon phono stage, if you only need enough gain for MM cartridges. With modifications to its output stage, I would add the Manley ... | |
| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again “If you want Russian get Lamm from Vladimir.” That’s pretty funny. Lamm from Vlad costs 20X or more than what E is buying. Also, I have looked inside a Lamm phono stage. While they are nicely laid out, and there is nothing unsavory about it, the p... | |
| Help - Phono stages dying!! It just occurred to me that solid-state devices are more susceptible to static discharge than are tubes, as a rule. If I read the OP correctly, all three phono stages that have failed are solid state. It might be interesting to try a tube-based ph... | |
| Help - Phono stages dying!! Mijo, And....?I think the static discharge hypothesis makes some sense here. But why the turntable is uniquely held responsible, I do not know. I don’t know how a turntable, especially a belt drive turntable with an outboard motor that is displace... | |
| Best cost no object tube phono Teo, nice piece of writing. You realize it’s all assertions on your part, I’m sure. But you have left us all hanging. Is there any piece of commercial manufactured equipment that meets your very high stipulations? Or are you saying the wave kineti... | |
| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again High Gm tubes like 5687 and 6922 types are “goofball”? | |
| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again US Priority Mail has long been the best bargain available. I hope they don’t screw it up. | |
| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again In support of what Chak says about expedited shipping, I have purchased various capacitors from Russian vendors on eBay. The shipping time is very short, sometimes as little as 4-5 days. Much faster than buying from Canada, most of the time. I ... | |
| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again Why do you wish for 12AU, T, or X7s? 6SN7s and 12AU7s don't have sufficient gain for a phono input tube but could be used elsewhere in circuit, I suppose. The Russian triodes tend to be re-makes of older very high transconductance triodes, like 56... | |
| Audible wow on Well Tempered TT Justmetoo, You wrote, "slightly out of centre LPs are 'pulling' the stylus back and forth while negotiating the outer grooves, clearly visible as it happens." I don't know why or how the shape of the stylus tip would make that phenomenon more or... | |
| Audible wow on Well Tempered TT Does the platter exhibit any run out? If you get down at eye level and view the platter surface on a 90° angle can you perceive the platter surface undulating? Those might be signs that the little plastic buttons inside the bearing well that suppo... | |
| Vinyl headache from hell!!! I must be losing my mind. Scar, you say you heard the same static-like distortions on the same LPs at your friends house using his completely different system as what you are hearing on your own system. For me, this would exonerate your turntable/... |