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| Does anyone run 2 or more turntables... Just to keep your thread alive, I now have 5 turntables up and running, although only 4 of them get even occasional use. My Victor TT101, mentioned above, was finally fixed by a genius in NYC, JP Jones. If you have a "broken" direct-drive turnta... | |
| Bad NOS tubes... Guys, Here are the facts as I see them:(1) The OP bought 12AU7s for a preamplifier that presumably uses 12AU7s, so there is no question that he bought the right tube type. In terms of operating parameters, all 12AU7s are alike. (The OP should repo... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? If you have a Grace F9E or Ruby in need of a re-tip, I highly recommend the Sound Smith upgrades, either the LC stylus on ruby cantilever or OCL stylus on ruby cantilever for a little more money. I got the latter re-tip on my Grace Ruby, and I da... | |
| Tube advice Dear ADG, Yes, I own a Hickok tube tester, and the number of times it has served me to detect truly defective tubes is near to zero, because such tubes gave away their condition just by listening to them. It is not that useful for tube matching, ... | |
| Bad NOS tubes... The driver stage is typically low stress, and, since there is no gain in the driver stage, most likely to be "quiet". Try the "bad" tubes in the driver stage and let us know what happens. What is the vintage and brand of the original set of "sto... | |
| 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... |