lewm
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| Bad NOS tubes... In fairness to the vendor, any tube that tests well on a given day might be prone to early failure that cannot be predicted based on those favorable test results. However, I do also empathize with you in that to have 4 out of 6 fail so early is w... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Audiolabyrinth, The only question in your stream of consciousness post that I can answer is the last one; there is no "signal path" in a turntable per se. However, the capacitors you will find inside the plinth are probably in association with th... | |
| Tube advice Preamplifiers, both linestage and phono stage, generally do not require any bias adjustments. Nor do the tubes in the input and driver stage of any amplifier I have ever known about. It's the output power tubes that generally do or do not need o... | |
| Tube advice In the old, old days, the amplifiers designed by William Zane Johnson, founder of ARC, were well known to run the tubes very hard, and failures were common. To deal with this issue, ARC was known in those days to "update" their amplifiers quite f... | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? Dear Halcro, You wrote, "The fact that you and many others can listen to vinyl played back at excessive volumes demonstrates conclusively that air-borne sound waves have no effects on the turntable system." But that is an incorrect assumption b... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Ditto for me regarding the M20FL. I own none of the cartridges otherwise preferred by Halcro, but in my system I prefer the Grace Ruby, either OEM or re-tipped by Sound Smith (I have one of each), the Acutex LPM320, and the Stanton 980LZS. | |
| Curious .. What is the compared price of your tt vs spkrs I think that the front end should be no more than two times the cube root of the cost of the speakers, if the room is built to the Golden Mean. | |
| Herron VTPH-2 As a matter of fact, Al, if YOU like the thing, that alone raises it up in my estimation. And I quite agree with you; I tend to buy the designer rather than the product, so long as the product passes my own personal smell test. If you so respect... | |
| FR64s & Orsonic Av-1s Effective mass ? CLeeds, In all fairness to Raul, where do you go these days to buy a NEW FR64S? In fact, so far as I know, Raul has owned his FR64S for a much longer period of time than I have owned mine; there's at least a chance that he DID buy his FR64S new. ... | |
| Herron VTPH-2 It's just my nature to want to understand "why". I am well aware that this unit has its diehard devotees, and I do respect the love affair. But can anyone communicate why technically this unit should be so exceptional? There are oodles of phono... | |
| FR64s & Orsonic Av-1s Effective mass ? Raul, As I mentioned once before, the cartridge I am running on my FR64S is an Acutex LPM320STRIII. Acutex say the compliance is 42; I forget whether that is a static or dynamic measurement and at what frequency. I also own the snub nose earlier ... | |
| Help returning an Allnic H1500 SE II phono stage What brf said.Plus, the title of your post says "returning", where I think from reading the thread you must have meant "re-tubing". Anyway, you got good advice. | |
| FR64s & Orsonic Av-1s Effective mass ? "FR adjustable VTA base" = B60, to which I referred. Using it has the non-obvious advantage of adding mass to the arm by virtue of its close coupling to the vertical shaft of the arm proper. To add even much more mass, I created an aluminum arm ... | |
| FR64s & Orsonic Av-1s Effective mass ? As I implied in one of my responses to Raul, I think the coupling of the tonearm (any tonearm, but maybe especially undamped tonearms) to high mass is another form of dampening. So, you're on the right track, IMO. | |
| AM and FM antenna systems Usually, the most minimal antenna is hugely better than no antenna, for FM. After that, the gains achieved with better and better antennae are incremental at best and very much related to one's location. For AM, I've never messed around much. |