newbee
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| Troubleshooting help please If the gain of your pre-amp is too high you would not have very much use of the VC. Assuming a normal amp input sensitivity, you would probably be restricted to volume control use below 9 o'clock where some VCs may have balance issues and, if step... | |
| Please disclose your commercial affiliation I suggest a letter code next to your moniker, ala AudioAsylum -1) M for manufacturer2) D for dealer3) R for reviewer4) C for commercial user5) A for consumers, AND6) S for sockpuppet.Fat chance. :-) | |
| Troubleshooting help please Sorry, I didn't read your post carefully enuf and(mis)applied the info in the 4th sentence to the mute circuit, not the VC. Sounds like a VC issue to me, perhaps in connection with an input gain issue? If you had an input impedence issue it would ... | |
| Troubleshooting help please Are you sure you have a 'mute' circuit? Some which represent themselves as such are nothing more than circuits that reduce volume substantially, like 20db, although the ones I have seen that do are identified that way. If you haven't you might che... | |
| 6H30 tubes ringing in BAT VK-300SE Some tubes sellers will test for microphonics, and that is what you are describing - microphonic tubes, something I have always insisted on for critical phono stage tubes. Have you approached it from that POV. It is not typically provided gratis w... | |
| New preamp & amp? I had a lot of fun using a Prologue 1 Integrated and a Raysonic 128 with the Linbrook Signature Systems (1 Piece). Not SOTA, but pretty good. The Prologue 2 might be better for you as it is a 'faster' amp and might fit rock better. Under 3000 new,... | |
| Audio Research D-90 Reverse the tubes you just installed from channel to channel and see if the hum follows the tubes. It could easily be in one of the tubes you just changed. | |
| My wife had an epiphany - I'm off the hook And something else you might relate to. The concert guitarist, after auditioning all of these guitars, said that what she loved about her guitar was the '1st string' tone, but she loved the clarity and tone of several of the new 'cedar' guitars wh... | |
| My wife had an epiphany - I'm off the hook Oh, and I forgot to mention, the gulf between the students guitars, even the one of a very experienced young lady with a clearly better guitar, was HUGE. Game, set and match! :-) | |
| EL 34 vs. KT 88 ---- What's the difference? Stewie, I think it is not that simple. Different plate voltage and the bias range of the fixed bias circuit both come in to play I think. Just having the ability to adjust bias is not enuf. A user should always ask the manufacturer if use is possi... | |
| A look into classical Well since we don't really know what you would like, and apparently neither do you, IMHO recommendations would have a very limited value at this point in time.What I suggest is that you check out from your library some 'compilation' CD's which hav... | |
| Newbie Question: High Output v. Low Output Before you go with a MC, if you do, in addition to gain matching issues, make sure your phono stage provides for adjusting to the load requirements of the cartridge. While some sound good at 100 ohms, there are others that like to see 1000, 2000, ... | |
| Jadis DEFY 7 IMPEDANCE SETTING FWIW, as I do not have the Jadis Defy 7, but I have just recently delt with the exact issues you are facing. I have speakers with a nominal 8ohm impedence, a minimum about 5ohm, and a effiency of 92db. I've become accoustomed to driving them, and ... | |
| Buy tubes from Audio Research or not Jea48, Nice posts - they should put some of this into prospective. FWIW, I've got nothing against Taters, but do you note that he has NOT contested Kevin Deal's version of what occurred in the contact he made with Upscale which led to KD's rude ha... | |
| Maybe your turntable setup is actually okay . . . Maybe this thread should be required reading for the budding vinylphile with high expectations and a plug and play mentality. But with a caveat that it doesn't hardly begin to cover all of the 'issues' involved in getting high quality playback. Ac... |