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| Russian 6C33C Tube Testing and Matching The only way is to built a special jig for testing them or using an existing amplifier to measure them - it is risky if you do not know of their condition. The main problem is supplying the needed high filament current (3A at 12,6V) - no usual tes... | |
| CJ PV-10 no sound I would also suggest a power supply fault - the PV10 has a series pass HV regulator using an MJ340 , a MPSU10 and a MPSU60 transistors. Most probably the fault will be in first two transistors - the third one is just a current source to bias the z... | |
| Preamps suitable for CJ ACT2 Series 2 preamp. If you have an ACT2.2 - cj350 combo IMHO it is not easy to find a better amplifier for this preamplifier unless you want to go with cj tube amplifiers.The choice of an amplifier always depends on the speakers, but unless you want to spend a lot of... | |
| Vandersteen 5A vs Martin Logan Prodigy You are comparing apples with oranges - both are excellent speakers, happy owners of Prodigy's will also say "they are the most natural, nonfatiguing, cohesive, MUSICAL-sounding speakers I've ever heard. Keep them!I have owned Prodigy's in the pas... | |
| Forsell Air Reference II Protractor Great acquisition. The Forsell is one the best sounding turntables ever manufactured. If you need a copy of the manual please please email me. I have a scanned version (missing page 7) that was sent by a friendly audiogon member. To get more detai... | |
| Warm CD player for older CDs with digital glare? Consider either an used Audio Research CD7 (one of the best deals at Audiogon) or the CD8. Many CDs I could not listen in solid state designs sound great on these players. | |
| ARC SP8 as Phono Stage Hi, I would not say that the SP8 and SP10 had "horrible line stage performance". More recent preamplifiers can be more transparent and better sounding, but one great system I heard included a Meridian CD player, an SP8, and Electrocompaniet amplif... | |
| Power cord for CJ MF2500A Modern cj amplifiers, including the great premier 350, have 20Amp IEC brackets factory installed. The cables they supply are industry very good quality cables, not too expensive - may be they will be able to supply you a custom length cable. | |
| Oracle Premiere - what's the difference I will add some details to the previous post. As far as I remember the bearing of my old Premier mk3 was quite different from the Delphi - much more solid and the spindle was not integral with the platter. The acrylic parts of the Premier were als... | |
| Measure capacitance, inductance and resistance The resistance value of cables is usually too low to be measured with reasonable priced multimeters - the resistance of the probes will be much higher than the value you want to measure, or the meter resolution. Inductance will also be very low an... | |
| ARC-Ref210 vs ARC-Ref610T at medium levels ?? Unhappily, even at medium listening levels the Ref 610T sounds better than the 210.There is a sense of fluidity, "easiness" and scale associated to the 610T that does not show in the 210.I once heard the 610T with Magico Mini2 and it was hard to b... | |
| Amps for Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage When the Stradivari were presented at the Arcugnano factory by Franco Serblin he used Krell amplifiers. Our distributor says that the new E series Krell amplifiers sound great with ARC Ref5 preamplifiers - if you have the possibility and budget tr... | |
| The Thorens 124 If you appreciate the TD124 do not forget about the excellent book: Swiss Precision, The Story of the Thorens TD 124 and Other Classic Turntables 2nd ed.http://www.theanalogdept.com/swiss_precision.htm | |
| Best caps for updating my VTL 225 mono's ? Go with the VTL advice, or keep the old capacitors for replacing them again. Rrog post is wise - putting the wrong (otherwise excellent) capacitor can ruin the sound of your amplifier. | |
| What are the optimal percentages for analog system Budget splitting in analog systems is not linear - it will depend on the total expenditure. |