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| Vintage Power Amp vs new age power amp Johnyb53, Of course I can. It can be some old Mac for less than half of price to purchase and restore, Accuphase, Bryston or Classe of the same vintage...I don't think that Rogue is any better built than above mentioned ever nowdays or past. I don... | |
| Sub Woofer Hum... This One Puzzles Me It's been quite strange to this subwoofer since 2wq has 47kOhms input impedance. Don't know about 2w though which may differ.Some of the 'directional' interconnects have their shield disconnected from the negative terminal so that's why I've sugge... | |
| A mystery for you tech gurus out there 12 years old is enough for studio v60 to be old.Go to Best Buy and get pair of new cheap polks and play them for couple of weeks. They have one month return policy anyways.Your components including turntable placed properly and should not create i... | |
| Sub Woofer Hum... This One Puzzles Me try using cheap interconnects such as radioShack and see if problem's still there. | |
| A mystery for you tech gurus out there One last one:7) How old are your speakers? | |
| How many still listen to CD's daily. every week day in the office via headphone rig. | |
| Sub Woofer Hum... This One Puzzles Me very simple. the amp output resistance is too high to the input of sub. in this case you should piggy-back your mains. | |
| Turntables with warm/smooth mids and highs Timo, If you look at Nottingham, Wilson Full Circle or Michell turntables and purchase one of them you will have the best analogue investment coz they sound natural even with budget cartridges. I kept Rega P3 for only 3mo-s and than traded in for ... | |
| Calrad SA-30B - need schematic. Start working on swapping tubes first, than inspect/replace visually all DC caps for bubbling(an electrolytic cap tester might be handy to you), leaks, dark burning spots, resolder joints with fresh solder and maybe you won't need any schematic. H... | |
| When to repair or replace speakers? cones more likely are OK especially if OK visually. voice coils might be under jeopardy. when your amp fries you'd definitely know or you can try to find matching complete drivers. | |
| A mystery for you tech gurus out there Seems we need to work further to ID the component at fault:1. how far your turntable from your left speaker? try to isolate turntable or simply disconnect and take away from rig and see if problem remains2. what source you're normally running when... | |
| Vintage Power Amp vs new age power amp From the engineering stand point the technology of new audio componets degrades in order to deliver higher profits.The peak of audio engineering happened in mid-70's. The peak of vacume tube audio engineering in late 50's. Techically serviced vint... | |
| 500 Greatest Albums of all Times Mrmitch, it's much more polite than puking LOL! | |
| Driver/Input tubes Jedinite, you don't have to match 12AT7 or 12AX7 at all. | |
| Vintage Power Amp vs new age power amp i suspect in most of cases budget oriented componets are built with less complexity and expense for better profits and certainly less performance. having all these factors reversed for the modern amp will bring retail price to quite large numbers(... |