marakanetz
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| Can you warm up your tube amp ... For the general rule of thumb and for the safety,First load the tube amp or any amp(plug in interconnects and hook up speakers or dummy loads) than worm it up loaded.If you turn it off after you worm it up the rail caps will likely drain the charg... | |
| First System Amp . . . What you're going to do with your broken one?Send me a note, since I buy broken equipment and fix it(finally I built my home lab!).After your old Adcom Bryston 3b-st used will be the very valuable upgrade. It has better current delivery capabiliti... | |
| Phono Pre: Monolithic SS or Wright Sound tube ? At the price level of Monolithic I guess you'd better stay with SS. That's what I'd assume having no experience with Wright product you're describing. It would be also usefull to know what you're using currently for your analogue assuming you've a... | |
| Help with buzzing sound First two lines of Seans comments tell everything for you to know why physically it takes place. You simply decrease resistance(or more precisely impedance) between signal path and ground by touching chasis. To dig onto the precise details of the ... | |
| Help with buzzing sound My first thought is the ground connection strength that is somewhere is not tight enough. Thoroughly check the preamp's input and output jacks. Check if it's loose anywhere within the preamp chasis and even amp's and speaker binding posts. Try to ... | |
| The Good Ol Vacume Tube I think that it's time for A'Gon webmeisters to implement a spell checking mexanizm or if no hard foolings about that than Long Liv Vakjum Toobz along with English Spelling Gramma! | |
| Best Thread on Audiogon? I love almost all Music threads and since I'm onto electronics and DIY I love Tech Talks as well.Hey, Warren!Don't try to do "critical listening" or adjust a "sweet spot" while listening and having sex... | |
| Powered Speaker Cables OK, ScotIf you consider the noise floor than I can tell that it 99.99999% depend on ELECTRONICS and the rest on wires(as long as they have tight well-soldered or crimped connectors). By acquiring wires with "lower noise floor" or "black background... | |
| active or passive? low sencitivity 1.7V for full output power requires the line source to have an adequate or higher which is not often the case... | |
| which integrated?... In my experience with Unico I fealt that it was not rated conservatively for its power ratings and any tube separates with 45w/ch can outperform it with even tougher speakers than Triangle. You can go for VTL TT25(25W/ch triode and 45W/ch ultra-li... | |
| active or passive? Passive preamp in most cases will not suffice for KSA. | |
| Powered Speaker Cables Whaaat??? You maybe messing up with networked cables such as MIT, Transperent that kind-a shunt reactance in the middle-way to the signal but at the same time increase the current loss so not every time the system will benefit from them...Cable ne... | |
| what's my problem? I 100% agree with Rob conserning cable costs or moving onto detachable powercord kinda hussle that only can suck your budget for the small micro-yota change.Wire improvements and upgrades are needed for already perfect system to get small amounts ... | |
| Stylus pressure gauges OK fokls, the bottom line buying the digital one is solely for convenience and speed of setup if you're an analolgue dealer. It's just like I love to take pictures with manual-focus camera but for reporting and sports photoshots I'd rather use an ... | |
| Yoiks, I'm amplifier confused. VTL MB185 used monos will definitely be the most superior amps of listed above with switchable ultra-linear and triode modes.Compared to the most Cary amps they're dead quiet just like SS amps.If you decide on VTL MB125 which is superior to stereo... |