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| Mainstream Phono Stages Incorporating Premium Branded PCB Parts - Do They Exist? I used to frequent the store on rte 123. Vu is a nice guy. But his shtick (tube SE amps driving hyper-efficient electromagnetic speakers)and my shtick (OTLs with ESLs) are very different. He used to have a Russian guy who built those custom SE am... | |
| Pass XP-17 and Hana ML loading question Ok. Then play with the values. You can’t damage anything. | |
| Pass XP-17 and Hana ML loading question As Atmasphere is fond of reminding us, the phono load resistor is for the phono stage. Anyway, in my personal experience of playing with load resistors, the value makes very little difference. Of course, there are others who have had contrary resu... | |
| Mainstream Phono Stages Incorporating Premium Branded PCB Parts - Do They Exist? Larry, are you talking about DeJaVu Audio in northern Virginia? $400 capacitor? Indeed. | |
| Mainstream Phono Stages Incorporating Premium Branded PCB Parts - Do They Exist? Pindac, if you are referring to copper foil in oil capacitors, especially those marketed under the Jansen (sp?) or AN name, I have found them to be unreliable when asked to tolerate voltages that are "high" in a tube circuit, but well within their... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? I agree with Mijostyn. For me, the only thing I can learn from reading the opinions of others on this or that piece of gear is that if 8 or 9 out of 10 hold the same or similar opinion, there may be some truth to it. Still, I approach even that mu... | |
| Pass XP-17 and Hana ML loading question Of course, try 47K; nothing is going to blow up. But it’s most likely that the difference in sonic character between 15 and 17 is due to circuit differences, not load. | |
| Mainstream Phono Stages Incorporating Premium Branded PCB Parts - Do They Exist? I did not come to any conclusion. I was speculating. Sorry to have offended you. Glad you’re happy. | |
| Mainstream Phono Stages Incorporating Premium Branded PCB Parts - Do They Exist? Atmasphere use teflon film and foil capacitors to couple one stage to another where it is necessary to block DC. Typically they use the VCap brand, which at least for the hobbyist like me are among the most expensive. And coupling capacitors are t... | |
| Mainstream Phono Stages Incorporating Premium Branded PCB Parts - Do They Exist? But you don't know what capacitors were installed(?) If you can say for certain that the amplifier sounds better, presumably after not having heard it for a few weeks while it was away for the upgrade, then the original capacitors might have been... | |
| Mainstream Phono Stages Incorporating Premium Branded PCB Parts - Do They Exist? Haven’t we gotten off the topic of boutique individual parts and their efficacy? Simply naming preamplifiers doesn’t get us anywhere. Just saying. | |
| Why I don't hear bass drums on Jazz LPs? Also Philly Joe Jones. Connie Kay? And how can we forget Art Blakey? | |
| Why I don't hear bass drums on Jazz LPs? Too bad about Cobb. I heard him perform in person maybe 10 years ago. Or so it seems. | |
| Developing A List Of Tonearm Candidates For A SOTA Turntable Pryso, I would think that the mass that moves in an ET or ET2 (the arm wand, cartridge, and mounting hardware) is small in magnitude, small enough not to disturb the suspension, I hope. | |
| Mainstream Phono Stages Incorporating Premium Branded PCB Parts - Do They Exist? IMO, after decades of investigating the parts content of preamplifiers (including those that do and do not incorporate phono stages), I’ve come to believe that circuit design is far more important than the content of boutique (means expensive for ... |