marakanetz
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| Gear in Albert,If DC offsets are turned off in stand-by mode from the output devices than I see less sence leaving an amplifier on all the time.The 75% of wormup time takes to establish DC offsets and getting an output devices to the higher temperature. S... | |
| Vandersteen users: How low can you go with tubes 50W OK 80W certainly better. Vandies will benefit from higher power but so as they someway will from tubes(as any other speaker depending on one's tastes). In your budget I'd go for Quicksilver M60 monos with KT90 that will swing them at 90W/ch or... | |
| Gear in In general, Ohm's Law is valid only in 293K temperature and so all of the values of wires, resistors, capacitors and other passive or active elements are specified. Amplification components run at slightly higher temperatures and as they're suppos... | |
| Something wrong with the Studio 100 v.2? Good luck educating your baby daughter!:-) | |
| "Parts upgrade" on crossovers -Any experiences? That's where I wouldn't mess up at all. There are a particular values placed and zillion times tested for a particular optimal crossover point. All you might do is just ruin it to the different parameters and don't try to force yourself that your ... | |
| spend more money on pre or power amp ? There are tons of different approaches selecting an amplifier but at first it should match speakers.There are many 'philes would say that preamp is the most important component in the system as the general rule of thumb but far far far it is not. ... | |
| The heat of tubes... Thomas, How about listening naked? | |
| MC Transformer or phono stage - help anyone? Less likely Ruby 2 gives .4mV rather giving .3mV so the gain is also an issue here.If you add a small bit to your budget you should get Pass Aleph Ono and forget about built-ins no matter how descent they R. | |
| MC Transformer or phono stage - help anyone? One other thing to think of that your amp might already have one step-up device for MC and adding another one can only make things worse. | |
| Breakdown of audio investment analogue 35%(including phono preamp)speakers 20%amp 10%diy preamp 4%headphone 7%digital 10%tapedeck 2%tweaks(including vpi16.5) and wires 12%DIY instruments including Weller Soldering station $150; NOS Oscilloscope $600; Hickock tube tester $150; ... | |
| Acoustic Gitter LP Suggestions OOOPS!!! How could I forget about Ry Cooder?My favourite one is "Jazz" on WB german vinyl. Man, this one can stay on your tongue for a long time after you'll listen to it! | |
| Something wrong with the Studio 100 v.2? Wussup wit'ya man?If you don't like it do not try to compell yourself to like it... Is that what's happenin?If you like Proac 2.5 or Nautilus 804, don't get paranoid and freaked out about your small kid since they understand parents' efforts to te... | |
| CD signal into a phono stage? Use pocket cd-player with adjustable volume control set to the very minimum(you may check the output level with voltmeter to make sure that you do not exceed 25mV) and adapter from headphone output to the line RCAs for the phono input. This way yo... | |
| The heat of tubes... I have a headphone setup for hot summer days or simply crank a volume a-bit to hear the quiet passages. | |
| REGA 3- Sounds better with dust cover ON of OFF ? If you leave it just open it wouldn't do any trick compared to the closed one. For the audiable difference remove it with hinges together(I know it's pain to place it back when you need to keep it closed other times). |