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| Tube amps - what 3 things… Auto-bias circuity (this applies to push-pull topologies) is lovely, and usually includes superior protection & status indicators that are preferable to fuses. I’ve had a tube fuse blow and it wasn’t even immediately apparent that single ... | |
| A Thought Exercise: Consolidating Analog To One Table and Two Cartridges Well essentially that points to standing where I am as both tables in my possession are quite respectable. In a way that is how I got to this point. When buying the SOTA Cosmos I bought an earlier generation Star Sapphire to determine if I liked ... | |
| A Thought Exercise: Consolidating Analog To One Table and Two Cartridges Unless you’re on concrete slab, don’t consider selling the SOTA. I tried to make a Clearaudio work on a suspended wood floor, and it was just too tough. I suppose there’s a Townshend Podium I could try as a potential "proper" solution, but the SOT... | |
| What is your experience with amp power? Why Do Tweeters Blow When Amplifiers Distort? See below: Mike https://sound-au.com/tweeters.htm#a6 That site is normally a good source of information, but that particular section "6 Bigger Amplifiers" seems short sighted to me: It assumes t... | |
| Which ARC ref linestage to try: Ref3, Ref5, Ref5SE? HATE forward sounding systems The Ref 6 is absolutely fantastic, and good deals can be had used. Hard to imagine you wouldn't be satisfied with that one. It's not too forward or too laid back; it's music. | |
| One of the great things about Vinyl If you list out the mundane tasks of ANY ritual - whether by religion or for pleasure - it looks so unjustifiably tedious, that any uninitiated observer would surely exclaim "WHY would they do this?!". You either derive joy from the ritual and it... | |
| What is your experience with amp power? To be honest, there are a lot of inaccurate statements in this thread. I am guessing that only a few people here know design and have experience in building an audio component. Are there really inaccurate/false statement in this thread, or is i... | |
| What is your experience with amp power? Mono-blocks>bi-amp That is generally my experience as well, though some solid state amps will sound worse when "bridged" to mono. With tube amps I’ve definitely heard substantial improvements going to mono. If the amp was designed to be a mo... | |
| Does anyone own a VAC Renaissance mk5 SE Preamplifier? IIRC when I asked VAC (a few years ago), there was no SE versus "standard" version of the 5. It’s all one version. The production Ren 5 ended up using the same Lundahl transformers as in the Master, so they deemed no need to make a separate SE ver... | |
| What is your experience with amp power? For 15 years I’ve been running Tannoys, between 91 - 96dB. I play loud. I like tubes. I don’t think I’ve gotten to the point yet where I have "too much" power. My most powerful amps, 250 Watts/ch and 300 Watts/ch tube monoblocks, have had distinct... | |
| One of the great things about Vinyl Same here. I just can't sink into digital listening easily - and some days, not at all. I don't agree with assertions that X amount is required to get satisfaction with vinyl, either. I've used a cheap $500 Fluance for a bit, and still preferred i... | |
| What's A Good Upgrade From A Manley Steelhead? I just don’t feel like I get as much mileage (as in, a wide variance in resultant SQ) from rolling 6DJ8 / 6922, as opposed to say 12AX7 / 12AU7 / 6SN7 or even KT / EL power tubes. Maybe that will change in the future. I’ve tried a lot of them, but... | |
| Tube phono pre amps He can get a Hagerman Trumpet MC (better than Cornet, though I'm sure that's a great value too), still well under budget at just under $1300. Stupid good, fun sound for the money. Responds very well to tube rolling (not all tube phono stages do). | |
| Preamp gain vs. poweramp sensitivity @paulfolbrecht Yes, you were thinking about this right. Excellent numeric breakdowns by @herman! Sensitivity in power amps is a voltage input number that has to be referenced against a specific output power level (225 Watts in your case) to reso... | |
| What's A Good Upgrade From A Manley Steelhead? Wish I’d heard a Steelhead - almost bought a used one last year. What do you want to hear from its replacement? More detail & transparency? More warmth and body? More dynamic sound? All of that? (that’s hard to pull off lol). Herron VTPH-2A... |