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| Cary Rocket 88R bias setting with EL34 tubes? Cary amps usually do not have one bias pot for each tube. Some of thier amps gang two tubes per pot, and some will gang 4 or on some older ones 6, tubes. So you have to start out with a matched pair, quad or sextet, and set them using one pot (per... | |
| Synergy While I don't agree with the underlying assumption you make, lets assume you are right. Someone who is just starting out will have to buy at a minimum a source, an amp AND speakers all made by the same company. Since few if any big companies make ... | |
| What do you see as the downside of tubes? Tvad, A good observation. It was this exact statement that got my 'interest' going and was the fundamental reason I posted. I suspect that if I heard his 'optomized' soundstage I would consider it as unrelated to the sound of a live event as the l... | |
| What do you see as the downside of tubes? Jayfox, Re: "In defense of Dave b". I too understand what he means but more importantly I understand why he arrives at his conclusions. That I think his reasoning is flawed, and certainly not in accord with mine (or yours) but what pleases his ear... | |
| Joule LA100 MKIII or Granite Audio 770FP or Modwrt Re the Baron, a few observations I have from operating my earlier model which used 5881's exclusively. It benefitted from a cap mod done by Mesa, using Wima Caps, but that is as far as I went. The gain issue, and the sound as well, seems infinitly... | |
| Need AM/FM Stereo Tuner Antennae Help You may find a suitible connector at Radio Shack which you will use as a replacement for the connector on the antenna cable. Not a big deal, BUT, I've put up with one of those connectors for some years and found that they do no form the best conne... | |
| SPEAKER HUM At the risk of being too obvious - have you tried a cheater plug yet at the amp/current source? If not you should. I would guess that it will reveal that your problem is an old fashion ground loop. Once you know its a ground loop you can take furt... | |
| Best Samuel Barber Violin Concerto I just listened to the McDuffie, Ricci, and Shaham versions back to back. Reminds me of the story of the "Three Bears".Ricci's version is cool and the violin recorded at a distance, more atmospheric than focused. But I like the disc mate, the Meno... | |
| Quality speakers that don't need tons of power FWIW, I think the 'interesting case' is due to the crossover and Silverlines implementation of the drivers. I have another set of speakers with identical drivers (except for the tweeter) but different cross-overs, cross-over points, and boxes/desi... | |
| Advice going from SS to tubes? Something to think about if you plan on moving to very efficient speakers. Noise floors of components become far more obvious, especially in tubed pre-amps and their tubes. As does the matching of pre-amp's gain and the amp's input sensitivity. Ve... | |
| Tuner question LOL, I just experienced the same problem! An accross the board substantial reduction in signal strength and many marginal stations now do not appear at all. My Tivoli works fine!I found my problem was a bad connection with the 75ohm cable at the t... | |
| Tuner question I suspect your problem may be in the tuner, but FWIW....Some stations broadcast stronger signals than others but the signals may still be pegged on the signal meter in your tuner. So prior to your problem they were all sufficiently high to max out... | |
| Need help finding cause of hum You've done a lot of good investigation without success. I think this dictates that you go back to the simplist way to solve the 'mystery hum' problem. Disconnect everything. Unplug every thing. Then connect your speakers to you amp and plug the a... | |
| Right /left channel gain imbalance Weak left channel tube? Try switching IC's from pre-amp to amp, i.e. left to right, and see if the balance changes with the left speaker now having the greatest output. If it does, then try switching the pre-amp tubes left to right, etc, and see i... | |
| Need to vent tube heat? Then the heat control is actually external to the fan - now that makes sense to me. No, I really have no interest in implementing that 'feature'. Actually, to the contrary, for me simple is better. I do have a tad of residualy noise in my set up (... |