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| Recommendation for tube preamp I owned a BAT VK-5i ages ago; did not like it. It was also hell finding 6922 tubes quiet enough to use. Each time a 5i comes up for sale I’m gob-smacked to see its ask price close to what I paid 18 years ago. I’ve owned so much wonderful gear, far... | |
| YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics. Depressing is where all the deemed useless / vintage sound equipment is going to end up ! As long as I keep my health up, I will end up with all of it :) | |
| YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics. This has always been a vastly male dominated hobby. That's not a problem IMO, and it's unnatural to try and force otherwise. The age problem is extremely concerning, though it's not like this hasn't been telegraphed for ages. Other cultures (espec... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? @vuch I owned the Herron VTPH-2A for a while. Regardless of having ample gain in its MC mode w/ tube swaps, it will sound different when paired with a SUT in MM mode. And that "difference" is quite likely to appeal to someone who likes VAC gear an... | |
| Tubes Look for the Rogue group on Facebook (I love my Rogue Audio Gear) - you’ll get more feedback. The Gold Lion (Russia) KT88 has been getting traction as the favored power tube in Rogue amps. It has a better midrange than Tung-Sol KT120. The KT120 is... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? @mijostyn Yep - I just picked up a refreshed older Cosmos IV that is now a hybrid of sorts (Condor motor & PSU), and it’s sublime. I’m truly impressed and in awe of it :) The only downside is it limits arm choices - I can get my FR64fx on ther... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? @lalitk Glad you were able to resolve the feedback! Nothing else really matters until this is settled. Running subs with vinyl is definitely doing life in "hard" mode ;) I’m guessing your feedback was well into audible spectrum. When I was fight... | |
| Output from Mola Mola preamp to Headphone Amp? Most headphone amps uses an analog volume potentiometer or stepped attenuator up front, to pre-attenuate the input signal before it hits any active circuitry. Proper protocol is to turn this volume down when headphones are not in use. That makes i... | |
| Crucial TUBE question Just to reiterate, the problem with wiring up a the KT screen grid like a "plate" here is going to be power dissipation - the fine wire obviously can’t handle power like a solid plate. We know that plates glow orange or red when they’re over-drive... | |
| Crucial TUBE question I thought OP replaced both rectifiers with a matched pair of KT50 - maybe he can confirm. Well, pin 2 on both 5AR4 and KT150 (same as KT88 pinout) hits the heater, but the other side of filament is pin 8 (also ties to cathode) on the rectifier an... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? Based on your experience, I should rule out a transimpedance phono since both of my carts are spec’d over 2Ω. Right? In my experience, no need to limit this way. What I found to be a reasonable determinant of matching was the ratio of output le... | |
| Crucial TUBE question Wow. Props to Upscale for being so calm in their response here lol. Those tubes are not pin-compatible; they’re not even function compatible. The 5AR4 is a full-wave rectifier and you maybe sort of got this KT150 scheme working as a half-wave rect... | |
| VPI Industries---Love the Company as Much as their Turntables Interesting...Does that mean the VPI gimbal design isn’t much of an "improvement?" Guess it’s in the ear of the listener. The gimbal looks just as low tech comparing the uni pivot. Never found the uni pivot to be "unfriendly" on my now 13 year o... | |
| Is "detailed" audiophile code for too much treble? If a component is "bright", then it’s emphasizing some details at the expense of others, or against the "musical whole". Yes, some lower end components may "fake" perception of detail by pushing up treble. Then there are some components that truly... | |
| Adding tube sound to my SS system How is the Yiggy an R2R DAC? It uses a DAC chip. Unless I am missing the meaning of an R2R. A chip is just a package. It doesn’t disqualify R2R / ladder conversion. The Yggy (OG versions, at least) were an R2R DAC based on a chip that was (IIRC... |