marakanetz
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| Retubing Question 6922 tube is already matched to itself since it's dual triode. It could be connected as an input tube(inverting connection) or the gain tube(non-inverting connection). dealers and manufacturers do have a large markup on them so buying them from in... | |
| Best way to terminate speaker cables ? If the binding posts on the speaker have holes for bare wire that you don't need to terminate them. Just you clean them twice per month with contact treatments. Someone mentioned Pepsi as one of the best ways to get rid of oxidation and corrosion. | |
| Vinyl way too quiet through headphones High gain of Plinius is for high or medium output MC.Low gain of Plinius is for very high output MM. | |
| Question regarding metal-bias cassette tapes. ...not only in metal bias tapes but in all of them... | |
| need advice on downsizing system for smaller room I have near-same situation but only with small kids. I isolated my components placing them in living room but with possibility to bring out speakers there and connect them.I shopped at home depot and bought wall speaker terminals and outlets. Now ... | |
| Piano that sounds like a piano My test track is Irmin Schmidt "Filmmusic Vol 3&4" -- "Aller Tage Abend Waltzer"a unique blend of strong forte large octave notes and sonds transfer from mezzo piano to forte. Becides that it's a unique piece of a great composer and piano geni... | |
| I have a lack of depth in "soundstage". 1. speaker placement2. amp/speaker match | |
| comments/questions/ suggestions for Agon I have a cure against unposted threads here.You should just understand the machine that very often makes mistakes and it's a machine that makes a moderation at Audiogon. Some of the "not sure if" threads may go to the human moderator I'd assume. I... | |
| keeping collection organized????? I bought an Expedit "organizer" from Ikea with 13 x 13" square cells there.My near 2000 record collection consists of groups that I specify in the label sheet in nearly each of the cell.CDs I simply keep in my head. Not too much of the new music d... | |
| Best Digital Amps 5 years warrantee can also be a pain when you should send your unit back to manufacturer for repairs or replacement(s).It realy matters how many units had to be returned for a warranty service within given term of a such...My experience was direct... | |
| Best Digital Amps One side is a great potential to get more power due to the high efficiency but in my listening experience I only heard the lack of one despite even of power ratings.I also heard about reliability issues with digital amps where the clocking circuit... | |
| Totem Mani-2 and tubes you can actually use both.I tried using SS at the bottom pair of binding posts with great results.You should also have an extra volume controll for the higher gain amplifier(preferably SS) to adjust tonal balance. | |
| Help, is it clipping? or cables? or...feedback. It seems like a self-oscillation to me!Oscillation may be from the following reasons:1. RF interfearance(less-likely in tube amps)2. Heavy speakers with wide swings of impedance up or down arn't a good match to the output transformer of tube ampli... | |
| comments/questions/ suggestions for Agon Sean, What'd'u think of Photogon's feedback transfer?Photogon was built even before v-gon. I guess if feedback is being transfered from A-gon to V-gon it should be transfered to Ph-gon. On the other hand, there are members who only use photogon or... | |
| Which Cary amp will drive the Revel Studio I more lean towards Audio Research VT100, VTL MB185 or BAT VK75 i.e. precise and dynamic tube amps since most of the music I listen is instrumental. IMO I never liked Cary for being tooo soft. Now realy thinking of getting SS amp to biamp with my ... |