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| What am I missing??? SenseYou are clearly suffering a fixed delusion sometimes referred to as "audionai" pronounced audionoiya. Check yourself into the nearest crisis center Now! | |
| Tube Preamp Isolation suggestions I believe a massive stand works the best. This principle is what drives TT makers to use very substantial plinths. You can see that as the TT maker's line goes up in "quality" towards their top of the line, the plinths and overall mass-the table e... | |
| Any ideas in speaker choices would be great Sell your SS poweramps and replace them with tubed power amps.The fact that you have a tube pre doesn't matter the staging you want comes from tube power amps honest. I went thru this painful and costly effort myself. I know this runs contrary to ... | |
| Manufacturers don't get it. make tubes visible. Actually tubes are a very useful tool for creative arts. I forget the name of the guy who finds mercury tubes and builds amps with tubes placed in what appear to be a random pattern around an antique meat grinder.Joe why not just angle the tubes s... | |
| Manufacturers don't get it. make tubes visible. I thinkthe manufacturer may be protecting potential burning of a child or yourself .Some companys think that you will tube roll and they consider that an alteration or mod. They frown upon this because they think they have selected the best tube u... | |
| If you started over what would you do differently? I would have been very careful reseaching the system I like the sound of. I started by buying to much garbage from various sources. Worst of all ebay .I honestly think I have bought 3 TTs from them, cheapos of course that broke down quickly or nev... | |
| Need to warm things up a bit... Expensive but will warm your sound. Use Cardas anything- ICs or of course better yet speaker cables. Stay above the " crosslink " except the one that says Neutral or something like that. I have a pair of old 2 meter IC s between my pre and mono bl... | |
| Broken RCA jacks For Nefarious reasons the Jack is always abutting a fragilge old silcon trace board that is soldered in place and cannot be removed. Therefore I second the let some else do it idea . | |
| What Gauge of Wire...? No thicker than 12 though, 14 is fine it will generally be faster possibly better resolution. You would be surprised that a "relatively" thin gauge would be better compared to all those fire hoses that are being pushed. If you look at the leads af... | |
| Tube Rolling MF X-CAN V3 No No No ECC82s are 12AU7s Not that is a NOT 6922s. Which are indeed a sturdy -generally thought of as a better 6DJ8 or ECC88,6922s are E88CCs and E188CC are 7308s as far I know the CCas are simply CCas but you won't want tobe competing for that p... | |
| Shout out for Better Records If aHot Stamper isthe Storeowners view that this or that record is really a great pressing then why not call any of the good onesa "Stamper"..I supposedly got awhole boxset of such records Bernstein's recordings of the Beethoven 9 symphonies with ... | |
| Poll.....what size is your room? Impossible to say .The speakers are set 8 ft forward but adjacent to a large alcove at least 20ft wall to wall. Then a pinch to 12 ft wide.This where I sit then another alcove and an open pasage to a small room, The legth is the entire length of t... | |
| Zu Druids low powered tube amp or high powered SS? SORRY DOUBLE POST ACCIDENT READ THIS IF YOU READ ANYTHING I SAID.You may do well to consider a few other potential amps. With 12 Ohm resistance you have a very good candidate for an OTL amp. You didn't explain if you are committed to a SET.Otherwi... | |
| Zu Druids low powered tube amp or high powered SS? You may do well to consider a few other potential amps. With 12 Ohm resistance you have a very good candidate for an OTL amp. You didn't explain if you are committed to a SET.Otherwise you should won't need to limit your choices low power.Withan O... | |
| consonance turnadot cdp break in time Break it any time you get mad at it . No one can predict when or if that will happen. |