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| For the first time... Honestly your analog chain looks solid. The Trumpet MC is certainly not a weak link, but you can get more sparkle, detail, and clarity by rolling those tubes to anything other than the stock Mullards. Might be worth a shot. The Trumpet MC is defin... | |
| Please tell me the wait will be work it......my rack I can't believe guys seriously recommend VTI racks, especially in a thread where OP has a CMS on order! The VTI racks are adequate for displaying a toy collection. Not for housing a high-end system. Definitely very bad for supporting a turntable. ... | |
| Tube Preamp --> Solid State Amp For long time, many have promoted the classic audiophile "hack" to combine tube sound with greater power & slam via a tube preamp paired to SS power amp. However, there are caveats to this approach! Impedance mismatch is much more likely he... | |
| Has anyone noticed a slow down in sales? The problem with blue book, at least when I had it years ago, is it seemed to average the prices over all time. Unfortunately, the vast majority of components drop steadily in market value as their release date ages. And given the nature of our ma... | |
| This Sounds Like A Pretty Good Deal -- Opinions? Wow! That was indeed a killer deal, and you were smart to jump on that before they were spoken for. Congrats :) | |
| Has anyone noticed a slow down in sales? Since I started in this hobby 20 years ago, I can’t think of many times when there WASN’T people belly-aching about the economy (with the other consistency being how peoples’ predictions are usually wrong!) or how the seller’s market is supposedly... | |
| Ortofon quintet vs. cadenza series Haven’t tried Quintets yet but I can say the Cadenza Red and Bronze are excellent cartridges, with a very agreeable disposition for all types of music including rock. The Red was particularly fun with rock - lively, fast sounding with punchy bass.... | |
| Coaxials - Reality vs. Experience? closenplay stated, "To add clarity, concentric is a subset of coaxial. In other words, all concentric drivers are coaxial but not all coaxial drivers are concentric. @erik_squires Pardon the presumption; you are probably referencing most desig... | |
| Bi-Amping: How can I determine relative output? The issue is that even if you can measure, WHAT are you measuring? Which frequency? The SS and tube amps will respond differently over the impedance curve of your speakers! The SS amp will dump more power into impedance dips and less into peaks. T... | |
| Question about the headphone amplifier in tubed preamps @fsonicsmith1 Cheers :) Happy when I can provide useful input for others - I way way too into this hobby lol | |
| Coaxials - Reality vs. Experience? @prof Prof 100% it is impossible to hear difference between tweeter location in the center of main driver or couple inches from . This is placebo efffect or good marketing point.LOl Sure just get a cardboard box and throw a few dri... | |
| Question about the headphone amplifier in tubed preamps I think the general advice on that was to fill those slots with cheap tubes - like Electro Harmonix, though used Sylvania 6SN7GTB could fit the bill too (and should last a LONG time). I'd hate to leave the slot empty or covered in tape. A pair o... | |
| Coaxials - Reality vs. Experience? Definitely, nobody is claiming coax or DC to be a perfect scheme, and in particular Tannoys do not look good in measurements. Fortunately I enjoy music, not measurements! The Tannoys with a 15" DC (like my Canterbury) are probably pushing that wo... | |
| can you please help me around how to use my first tube amp? For his future amp purchase? Everybody needs a multimeter, unless you think a light bulb change needs a service call 😁. @russ69 Quite frankly if and when he upgrades from the already excellent Atlas Magnum, it should be a tube amp with auto-bi... | |
| Artesania rack Isolation from a rack (or platform, or feet) is never 100% effective. There are always tradeoffs with what kinds of energy it’s designed to handle, where the energy is allowed to come from, and how the rack handles it (i.e. route it elsewhere or t... |