mulveling
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| The $27,900 disappointment? Wilson Audio Watt Puppy 8 issues. @hjdca Beautiful system! You know what sounds good - ignore the noise floor from YouTube hucksters. That's a different hobby than what you (and me) are doing. | |
| Amplifier gain settings - what do they do? I tend to believe most don’t understand the distinction between gain, level adjustment, and volume control. I have a pair of MC 901 McIntosh mono amplifiers and to read what it does is very confusing for my tiny brain. I’ve always believe a true... | |
| Amplifier gain settings - what do they do? Where are you seeing "gain settings" on a tube amp? They’re rare. Some old tube amps had input potentiometers whereby you could adjust "input sensitivity" on each input channel (Eico, McIntosh) - technically it’s not a "gain" adjustment, but an at... | |
| What do you know and how do you like the RCA 5963 Black Plates? So, RCA 12AX7 black plates from 50s are not microphonic, I understand, I might want to try them too instead of Mullards, though I would not anticipate the improvement, but who knows ? I mean they can be microphonic - all tubes can. But in pract... | |
| What do you know and how do you like the RCA 5963 Black Plates? mulveling, I see. I thought you had all VAC electronics, or this is your second system. Yes, the 2nd system / office rig is sort of my "sandbox" system. That’s where the ST100 is. I have VAC Master monos and premap in the bigger loft rig. Also ... | |
| What do you know and how do you like the RCA 5963 Black Plates? mulveling, did you compare various RCA blackplates from 50s to Raytheon blackplates from the same time period ? I really like the RCAs in the driver section and how they work together with 12AX7 Mullards in the preamp. I was thinking about trying... | |
| What do you know and how do you like the RCA 5963 Black Plates? I know this is an old thread - 5963, yeah I like this tube in place of 12AU7. RCA’s black and gray plates are very good sounding. For me, they should be limited to use in power amp slots only. They tend to be very microphonic in preamp and phono s... | |
| Preamp Output Completely Different with Tube Amplifier versus Solid State Amplifier This is a consequence of system gain structure. You have a very high sensitivity speaker, with a lot of combined gain from your preamp and power amp AFTER the preamp’s volume control. In net, you have way more gain than you need, and you're hearin... | |
| Preamp with separate volume control for each channel? Khozmo in Poland makes passive preamps with dual mono volume controls using your choice of their very high quality ladder, shunt, or stepped attenuators. Remote controllable too. | |
| Looking for advise regarding Rogue M180’s @buellrider97 Cool! Man that Hera was a great deal, I would’ve bough it for sure. They’re hard to sell, but the sound quality you get for $2K is amazing. A hidden gem. IMO it showcases the 6H30 sound at its best - caveats aside (high gain, micro... | |
| For Tube Folks... The pic you show has a very large side-getter patch (good), with light-gray fringes that indicate some light use - roughly consistent with the seller’s description. As use continues, the side patch typically shrinks (well before the top patches), ... | |
| soft dome versus hard dome tweeters @knotscott Depends. You should ask the fans, but one approach is to use a coaxial or coaxial-full range driver. If you are willing to accept the beaming above a certain frequency though you can get get most of the benefits of being without a c... | |
| soft dome versus hard dome tweeters I want to repeat myself a little though. Tweeters don’t matter. They are the sprinkles on top of the doughnut. Midranges matter. I’m saying this a little funny, tongue in cheek, but honestly we pay far too much attention to a device that may no... | |
| Am I alone in the world using a 1997 high end pro sampler as a DAC? It will surely measure terribly compared to state-of-the-art current DACs, but certainly I’ve found some of the older stuff is simply musical and enjoyable. I have an ancient Meridian 566.24 DAC I quite enjoy (the DAC portion of the famous 508 CD ... | |
| soft dome versus hard dome tweeters Yes, implementation matters a great deal. It's impossible to "perfectly" isolate all other variables to do a "fair" comparison to these 2 tweeter types. I do have one experience that sticks out - I've heard all the Acora spekears at my local deale... |