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| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III The SP10 MkII power supply has three voltages +5V, +32.5V and +140V. The 140V supply is used to power the strobe light. It is simple half wave rectifier circuit using a single diode, protected by a 315mA fuse - always check fuse F3 before anything... | |
| Wilson's newest Maxx 3 setting up photos These low value Caddock resistors are some of the best power resistors you can find in the industry. Liking or not their sound is highly subjective, but their behavior in low impedance circuits such as speaker crossover should be be very different... | |
| Anyone heard the new Focal Grande Utopia EM? May be you already know this trick - invert the phase and place the speakers face to face when breaking them - bass will cancel. This is particularly welcome when using the Purist Audio System Enhancer breaking CD that has very loud bass frequencies. | |
| Old Krell vs new Krell amps... And we are forgetting the Krell Reference krs 200 monoblocks (a pair just showed-up at Audiogon today) - some people consider it one of the best amplifiers ever manufactured.SME founder Alastair Robertson-Aikman used a pair in in famous listening ... | |
| Old Krell vs new Krell amps... I agree with Breuninger - the old Krells were not at all grainy. It is true that they can sound grainy in two situations: either when they are cold - they need more than one hour heating before sounding "liquid" - and when the electrolytic capacit... | |
| wilson Since you already have a superb power amplifier I would suggest listening to an ACT2 series 2 in your system. The premier 350 is very detailed and deserves a better preamplifier - the 18LS is not in the good enough for the 350.IMHO an ARC ref3 - r... | |
| Upgrade Audio Research CD3 Mk11 A friend of mine has an ARC CD3 Mk2 and I own a CD7. The sound of both units improved when we connected an Exactpower EP15A. Similar results results were also obtained with a PS Audio P300 230V unit. | |
| ARC Ref 3: Tung-Sol 6550 in power supply? Just to add that my ARC Ref3 time counter shows 3674 hours and today I tested the original 6550 tube : transconductance was 5200 micromhos - this means the tube is still perfect! | |
| Powerful Tube Amp for SF Strads? I have owned the Stardivarius for sometime and I could not find a tube amplifier that mated well with them. Although they sounded nice with tubes, after you hear the scale and dynamics of these speakers with a good power amplifier such as a Krell ... | |
| ARC Ref 3: Tung-Sol 6550 in power supply? Try replacing also the 6h30 in the power supply - perhaps a failure in the Tung-sol 6550 has damaged also the driver tube. | |
| MBL 101E Speakers and Musical Fidelity? I had some experience in the past with MBL 101b's and exchanged some emails with designer concerning power amplifiers for them. He told me that it is not only the rating that matters, but the type of amplifier itself. CAT tube amplifiers are excel... | |
| Wilson Audio MAXX series III The inevitable question can not be avoided - what is the best sound : a new MAXX series 3 or an used original Alexandria X2? | |
| Playback Designs MPS-5 CD/SACD Player We can see BNC analogue outputs at the Audio Federation MPS-5 rear pictures - are they intented to drive the 50 ohm inputs of the Dartzeel NHB-18NS preamplifier using the special Dartzeel interconnects? | |
| Tube amp for "difficult" speakers,,, I had some experience with the Dynaudio ConsequenceÂ’s, many years ago, and I still consider selling them cheap one of my biggest audio mistakes. But at that time I did not have a dedicated listening room and as they need a large distance between t... | |
| ATC SCM100 Anniversary? I have some reduced experience with active ATC speakers (ATCSCM-50 ASL ). Although I did not like their own matching preamp, when used with a top preamplifier such as ARC ref3 they sounded very good and represented good value for money in Europe.P... |