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| Need to vent tube heat? Nsgarch, Out of curiosity, I looked up the fans you mentioned. The site sez that they have an automatic temp control function that is not only a turn on/off but actually controls the fan speed. Interesting and sounds great! But, there is no mentio... | |
| Need to vent tube heat? I live in the Central Valley in California - that may qualify for hot climate unless you live near Pheonix. :-)I would find the addition of a venting system to the house more limiting than beneficial. Of course you could do it much the same as you... | |
| Need to vent tube heat? Zargon, I do use 5" 120v fans - they move a lor of air with less noise and vibration (only) when you use two in series. I've never used 5" 12v fans but I'd imaging the result would be similar. I got into the 120v models because I originally used j... | |
| Need to vent tube heat? FWIW I have my tubed amps on the bottom shelf of a cabinet. When used the doors in front of the amp is open. In the back of the cabinet I cut openings to accomodate two 120v fans wired in series. In that fashion they move lots of air, each fan at ... | |
| McIntosh MC7200 - fuse question "Wrapped it in aluminum foil"I don't know what you intended to accomplish, but it sounds like by wrappiong the fuse in aluminum foil you may have disabled the purpose of a fuse. I assume this was a temporary thing, just to see how it would sound t... | |
| New Production Tubes What components would you be using them in?What are you presently using? What about their present sound do you want to change? That is what are you trying to improve?Is your present problem one of clarity (resolution), tonal (dull or bright), nois... | |
| Would diffusion help in this space My answer may have been inappropriate due to my misunderstanding. IMHO, great depth of image (pin point imaging) can exist only when you have achieved optimum resolution in equipment, room and set up. (My biggest improvement in depth of image came... | |
| impedence value.? amp to preamp. To put some numbers on Ralphs comments, for example, one of those inexpensive Creeks, the OBH-12, has an output impedence of 0 to 50K, depending of course on the amount of attenuation used. Sonic effect would be sort of a crap shoot with this type... | |
| Would diffusion help in this space Wow, you've been playing with this for a while! I haven't read all of the posts involving potential solutions so forgive me if I miss the mark by a mile. If your latest photos reflect your present speaker set up, and I have read your comments corr... | |
| Leave tubes in phono section if not using it? Riley804, what Rich wants is someone with intimate knowledge of this pre-amp who can tell him whether or not operating on only 2 of 4 tubes will cause him any problems. I don't have a clue with this pre-amp - for me it would be easier to stuff in ... | |
| Do you spend more on audio than your income allows Funny, my wife is the ONLY thing that would make guilt set in! :-) But she is such a spend thrift I don't ever have to worry about her editoralizing about my relatively frugal audiophile impulse buying. But, in the long run it all evens out and we... | |
| best tuner for Sonus Faber FWIW, and apart from my agreement with Almarg's comments in the first four paragraphs, I have an all tube system except for my tuner and I can not envision a need for a tubed tuner. I'm using an Accuphase T101 - it is clear as a bell, full toned, ... | |
| Removing tubes in phono stage of preamp. Yes/No? Agree with Thorman. FWIW, noisy tubes in the phono stage should not be an audible issue if you are not using it. Shorting plugs are sometimes useful in any unused input, but not often. You don't need to solve problems that don't exist, but I keep ... | |
| impedence value.? amp to preamp. Passive pre-amps/attenuators etc also have output impedence, usually varible, and require very careful IC matching to get a good result. | |
| impedence value.? amp to preamp. Both Sidssp and Tvad have fairly well hit the nail. FWIW many tube pre-amps have a 600 ohm output impedence (my ARC SP10 does, and recommends a minimum amp input impedence of 20K ohms). As common are some with output impedences of 3500 ohms. (Thre... |