lewm
Responses from lewm
| Where's Mijo? I just re-googled him. Like the guy with plague in "Life of Brian" (Monty Python), Mijo is not dead yet. In fact, he is accepting new patients. | |
| Where's Mijo? A few months ago, I sent him a PM by email, and he did not respond. So far as I know, he and I are on good terms even though we disagree on many things audio. (We do agree on the excellence of Atma-sphere amplifiers driving Sound Lab ESLs.) I the... | |
| Vintage Japanese DD Consult and Suggestions Please Not necessarily. | |
| Turntables with tone arm lift at end of play. Only some of the Denon DP series TTs offer any automation. The upper end of the line are purist manual TT s, e.g., DP75, 80, and 100. | |
| Too much bass from my Octave V70SE it is odd to me that you say on one hand that tapping the tubes with a pencil eraser has no effect and on the other hand measures, you have taken to reduce the possibility for acoustic feedback into the amplifier seem to help. The difference betwe... | |
| Too much bass from my Octave V70SE If microphonics, move the amp with respect to the speakers or physically dampen the tubes or experiment with tubes to find least microphonic samples or all 3 strategies. But first identify what tubes are responsible. | |
| Too much bass from my Octave V70SE Tube microphonics is a possible culprit. That would account for the difference between the results with the Octave vs those with the Anthem. The phenomenon you describe is also compatible with microphonics. Tap the tubes on the Octave gently with ... | |
| Vintage Japanese DD Consult and Suggestions Please br3098, Can you enlighten me further on the Teac 400N? I had never heard of it until you mention it here. I found a blurb on Vinyl Engine that sounds like ad copy, not a sincere critique, but the description of the motor is impressive. On the o... | |
| Mounting cartridge in Eminent Technology ET-2 tonearm Actually, by my measurements and according to internet sources, azimuth has a very minor effect on channel balance and probably ought not to be used as a method for correcting imbalance. It’s best used to reduce crosstalk between channels. | |
| Vintage Japanese DD Consult and Suggestions Please TT801 adds vacuum clamping, which is a nice idea, but so far as I can tell, in order to maintain the bidirectional servo and speed adjustment of the TT101and fit the electronics, Victor had to use integrated circuits that were then available, and ... | |
| Denon DP-100M Power Issue Was the original capacitor an electrolytic type? I can't imagine a film or metallized film cap, such as the one you are now using, failing in that application except due to over-voltage. | |
| Garrard 301 - Project I would not go out of my way or to great expense to mess around with Bugle Boys (even assuming you can find a legitimate pair of them, which I doubt) or Mullards, when you can buy either JJ or Sovtek LPS any day of the week at reasonable cost. BBs... | |
| Tube Tester You CAN do that if you do it properly. To be certain that no damage will occur, unplug the amplifier before swapping tubes. I don't know exactly what went wrong in your case, but maybe you swapped tubes with power on. Or if you turned the amplifi... | |
| Tube Tester Like I said, most vintage testers cannot deliver either enough plate voltage or plate current or both to properly test power tubes, and also a few high transconductance 9 pin miniature small signal tubes. So you will get a result but it may not re... | |
| 2020 update : JC Verdier La Platine ledoux, Did you ever get a response from either SOTA or Bill Carlin about whether the magnetic suspension would interfere with the Eclipse/Roadrunner system? Or maybe you have not yet asked. |