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| Best 12AU7 Type Tubes for a Preamp @lowrider57 - You are correct about Andy's availability. I went to contact him this morning and found this message on his website: Notice: Due to extreme demand, I am only answering the phone on Fridays and I am running about 2-3 months behind ... | |
| Best 12AU7 Type Tubes for a Preamp @lowrider57 After using the stock tubes, what kind of change do you want Actually, there is nothing "wrong" with how it sounds now. The sound is clean, clear, and there is no noise I can hear over what I get using the internal SS opamp outpu... | |
| Best 12AU7 Type Tubes for a Preamp Thanks all - you have offered some really good thoughts and suggestions for me to consider, and thanks @dekay, the linked thread did have interesting and useful information. I live about an hour from Andy Bouwman • VINTAGE TUBE SERVICES, and I ... | |
| Best 12AU7 Type Tubes for a Preamp Thank you everyone. The unit is (not actually but sort of) a preamp. I have owned a lot of tubed preamps in the past and didn't think I would again but when I purchased Hattor's The Big Preamp to run in passive mode so I could have remote volume ... | |
| Should an amp have a "personality"? Having enough power to achieve the desired dynamics with the speakers being used is also not a trivial factor to the ultimate sound. | |
| Best vibration isolation for speakers on carpet? @johnread57 - Those PMC MB2SE look sweet. The pictures on the manufacturer’s site show them with spikes. I used spikes under my heavy speakers for years (through carpet onto a concrete floor). One issue I had was that it seemed that all four spik... | |
| Ethernet - Analog/Digital Signal Clean Up Surprisingly, removing both the Gigafoilv4 and the eno, and connecting the Ethernet cable directly into my streamer/server may have resulted in my favorite configuration. Further listening, and connecting/disconnecting stuff has led me to the s... | |
| Best vibration isolation for speakers on carpet? There is no “best” - that can only be judged by the ear of the beholder - you. in general, there are two camps, coupled (i.e., using spikes) or decoupled (i.e., usually on an elastic support such as a spring or elastomer, but sometimes on a hard ... | |
| What’s your latest high-end audio purchase? Mojo Audio Mystique EVO PRO DAC to replace my souped up EVO B4B21 DAC. A subtle but definite improvement. | |
| Where to invest the most in the "digital chain"? The streamer lives in the digital world while the DAC has the important job of processing the digital input and converting it to an analog signal that gets output to the preamp (or to the amplifier if internal VC), and it must do all of that witho... | |
| The Risks of Buying Demo Gear Benefits of demo are purchasing current model gear with full warranty at a discount. It is not wrong to expect that demo gear has been used harder than similar aged used gear. I would be most concerned with demo speakers. | |
| Where to invest the most in the "digital chain"? If money is a consideration, then I agree with @carlsbad - spend enough to purchase a streamer that provides the services you want and that operates reliably, and then spend the rest of your budget on the best DAC you can afford. Digital cables a... | |
| Question about assembling my own DIY AC Cable Correction, HT speaker cables actually use PE (air-foamed polyethylene with air bubbles as the main dielectric), not PTFE, as the insulation. | |
| Question about assembling my own DIY AC Cable I never had a wire that couldn’t be stripped using a tool like that, with the exception of cotton or silk covered wires. However, it is important to use the correct hole size matching the wire diameter. Another trick if you are having difficulty i... | |
| Question about assembling my own DIY AC Cable A wire stripping tool has always worked best for me, with thin coverings and even with foamed Teflon. You should know the gauge of your wire and be careful because you can break the wires if not careful. |