mulveling
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| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? You’re mistaken. There’s no SUT in my ARC Ref Phono 2SE. It uses an FET on the MC input. I’m pretty sure this is common on ARC phono preamps. @cleeds Correct - at least modern (and relatively recent) ARC Reference phono stages use a JFET based ... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? VAC It is much easier to make a transformer. I even made my own using top of the line Sowter cans. I could never make an active phono stage. I have placed Sowter cans inside preamps with MM phono stages with decent, but not spectacular results. ... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? @mulveling : I certainly respect your knowledge and your ears, and those of Kevin Hayes, too, having been a VAC man myself for a long time. But I have to disagree about the LL1931Ag. I recently picked up a last-gen K&K Maxxed Out with the sil... | |
| Refurbished / Re-tipped Cartridges - Are they worth Buying? My thoughts against non-manufacturer rebuilds / retips have softened somewhat over time - of course partially out of necessity, with more old masters passing on (more reports to come in the next several years, I’m sure). At some point I’ll need to... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? Personally, I wouldn’t get hung up on Copper vs Silver windings @lalitk @kennyc Totally agree - I became a SUT lover on "just" copper windings. In fact, tried the silver (Ag) version of Lundahl LL1931 (in a K&K box) versus the copper LL193... | |
| Kickstarter project No. Terrible business model for high end audio. Some huge failures. Lots of risk and long lead time pushed onto the "investor" with little reward. Even assuming you get the product, its end quality is an unknown. | |
| Amplifier Power tubes - important to sound? I've heard that before - various incarnations of "rolling tubes in this slot won't affect the sound", because "they're cathode followers with 100% feedback" etc. Still haven't met a slot that doesn't affect the sound. It's directly in the audio pa... | |
| The Audiophile Song - Who Can Relate? That's a great song + video!! Creative, and definitely captures the nature of our disease. I will say, if I got into speaker rolling like that, I probably would've been burned out of this hobby years ago. It totally shakes up the whole system ba... | |
| Experiences Selling Stuff On Audiogon? My experience here has been good, but the last few / several years I've been driven away because: High fees: higher than, and IN ADDITION TO, PayPal's, and The stifled communication between buyer & seller when you don't pay the fee up fron... | |
| Amplifier Power tubes - important to sound? Maybe I should’ve said do they impact the lower frequencies more? You own interesting speakers @emergingsoul Ok, I see. If you are jumping between types like from KT88 to KT90 / 120 / 150 then YES, it will usually have more notable impact on ... | |
| Anyone trying out the Rogue Audio Dragon power amp? The nCore modules it uses are superb, as I’ve enjoyed them in the NAD M22 (v1 and v2 sound largely the same to me). Being myself a longtime user of Rogue gear, and also co-admin of the Facebook Rogue fan group, I thought to try DragonN’s. Chatting... | |
| Amplifier Power tubes - important to sound? Do power tubes affect the full freq spectrum or is it more focused on below 250 hz? Of course it is a full spectrum impact. Who is claiming otherwise, and how? If I cared most about below 250Hz, I’d run solid state. | |
| antique sound lab head The ASL HEAD amps were popular in the early days of head-fi, early 2000’s. But interest in them dropped off like a ROCK as other manufacturers entered the headphone amp game (mid 2000s), and it was soon forgotten - like so many of the other early ... | |
| Amplifier Power tubes - important to sound? I have the rogue Apollo monoblocks which use 12 Kt88 I have 3 sets of tubes. Golden lion Electro Harmonix Kt90 and Kt120. The 120 are colored in my application. The kt90 and sharper and firm the gold lion I give the nod to good luck @hiend2 ... | |
| Amplifier Power tubes - important to sound? @darkblacksmoke Lovely, entertaining read! Agree / relate with most of that - though I am a young kid in this hobby (mid 40s) and only caught the tail end of analog tech (film, tape, CRTs) in my youth. Thanks for clarifying on the Signature II. A... |