mulveling
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| In need of a preamp with a prominent display ARC has the best clear, big, bright numeric displays. I just love the look of a big, crisp VFD display. Monochrome in blue or green - MUCH better than LCD or OLED for this use-case, IMO. One of my pet peeves in the space of 2ch preamps is analog ... | |
| Right channel phono stage tube goes noisy That’s a tough one, and I don’t have any ideas beyond what’s been posited by others. Just wanted to say I’ve encountered more gremlin-y issues with 6922 / 6DJ8 tubes (and sometimes the components that use them) than any other tube type. F that tub... | |
| Phono preamp or SUT for low output moving coil The Rogue Ares phono stage also allows loading a SUT at 100K or 1 MEG ohms (in addition to the usual 47K option), and has done so since its introduction ~ 2010. It's certainly a rare feature that I wish was far more common! Yes, it allows a cartri... | |
| Phono preamp or SUT for low output moving coil Agree 100% with everything @herman said! | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode Regardless of what we each think of the term "UltraLinear", and its alignment on the good-versus-evil spectrum, I found the following diagram most succinct and easy to digest. It’s from a web search that hits el34world dot com. Note the wiring in... | |
| NAD M22 V1 versus M22 V2 or M23 @cpg80 Funny, I’ve also ended up with my M22 on a mixed tv / movies / streaming setup - where its "crisp" sound does great! I still think it’s a sweet amp for the money with a ton of power, but for 2ch it did best when I had a decidedly dark sou... | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode Isn’t ul mode solid State? Doesn’t it make sense that more would be involved for solid State and that it would sound a little bit I think use of the word ultra linear is a marketing term and kind of dumb Out of all the possible questions to b... | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode Everything was great at first then after a couple months the problems began, when I would turn everything on after a hour the amp would make the most awful load noises like metal bending and it was loud. That went on no matter what I would do,the... | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode I readily admit to how illiterate I am when it comes to electrical. Actually I had always thought that the one was a synonym for the other. I am in need of an education. Can you put into layman’s terms the difference between the three? If layman’... | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode Don’t feel bad about it. There’s some paranormal audiophile force that makes us feel like the more "purist" approach must always be better: triode versus pentode, DHT versus separate heaters, single-ended versus push-pull, ladder-dac versus delta-... | |
| a resonance in my left ear If the resonance is caused by the outer parts of your ear or canal - try pressing down on your earlobe or pulling on it to see if you can affect or mitigate it? There is a lot of energy in piano and it could excite resonances in a different freque... | |
| Phono preamp or SUT for low output moving coil In practice it is impossible to achieve, but the practical outcome is, IMHO, the same, the lower the internal impedance of the cartridge, the greater the transfer of current to the phono stage. And that is because the internal impedance of a cart... | |
| Phono preamp or SUT for low output moving coil You could get BOTH Hagerman’s Piccolo ZERO (transimpedance) and Piccolo MC (voltage drive) head-amps brand new for just over $500 and be covered for virtually any cartridge’s needs in the future (and already mentioned, "transimpedance" is not a go... | |
| Need help: Tannoy or B&W? The Stirling III LZ looks great on paper, but has had mixed reviews - and it's hard to tell if that's just sour grapes from the distribution drama Tannoy went though recently, or something inherent in that model, OR just a bad sample that got sent... | |
| Tung-Sol 7581A......Wow!! Another late bump here sorry. I just put a set of Tung-Sol "reissue" 7581A into Rogue ST-100 and am blown away at how full, vivid, and "classic tubey" the midrange is. A little less bass impact versus KT120, but still enough to nicely round out th... |