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| 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... | |
| whats more important-speaker or pre-amp cable? IMHO, the affect of a long run of IC is likely to be less audible than a long run of speaker cable so long as your pre-amp can drive a long run. A long run of speaker cable is more likely to result in rolled off highs and softened bass response. P... | |
| Need help in search of Living Voice sound You might like my Silverline Bolero's, but I don't know where you could find them to audition. I feel they have that magical combination of nearly optimum resolution, without added brightness, and general neutrality. If anything a tad polite in th... | |
| Beethoven Ninth Symphony Detlof, LOL - at last I get my due acknowledgement from one of the gods of audio. As a broken clock is right twice a day, so can a Newbee. :-) But lets not make this a habit, too much concurrence gets boring. | |
| New Production Tubes Not that many new production 6922/6dj8's to consider. Forgetting tonal issues the EH6922's are very quiet, rugged, and have a fair amount of detail. I found them to have ample bass. Whether I liked them or not was dependent on the component I used... | |
| Beethoven Ninth Symphony Bernstein with the Vienna Philharmonic is my (rather unusual I think) recommendation. In fact his entire budget set by DG is worth having. And I'm not a Bernstein advocate! In general he picks up the pace a bit and his music is just plain joyous a... | |
| Tube Coolers pros and cons I used to use them on both small tubes and power tubes. Can't honnestly say they did anything for my systems, sonically or for extending or shortening tube life, but they do look 'cool'. I haven't used mine (Pearl) for some years. | |
| "Frightening" or "Relaxing" sound quality? Unsound, FWIW, the point of my statement about phase correct speakers being a 'false god' was not meant to be read as a subtle (or not so subtle) critique of them. In fact what I meant to suggest was, that if anything, these types of speakers beco... | |
| Why buy cheap speakers?? Price relationships between conponents are IMHO meaningless, with the exception of the underlying question of getting high quality speakers or high quality components first. The problem with getting speakers first, the higher the quality, the more... |