newbee
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| Kt-88's for ARC amp Ask ARC. I don't own your amp, but I did own a predecessor. They used to have reservations about using KT88's in their amps in general. I believe because they didn't want to have to pay for damages caused by poor replacement tube selection by cust... | |
| Best 6DJ8 tubes? If you are looking for new production tubes (cheap) try JJ's E88CC'S (6922's). They are a fairly warm tube and fairly reliable. The EH 6922 is probably between the Sovtek (which is about as 'cool' as they get) and the JJ tone wise. I like (use) a ... | |
| Strange amplifier problem Transl, FWIW it is possible that one or more of the tubes in the amp when it was blowing fuses had a 'bias' point which exceded the values of the bias circuit. A personal experience (on two different amps - same tube set). One amp had 'auto bias',... | |
| Strange amplifier problem Have you re-checked the bias settings? Could be that its gotten out of whack a tad (or more). | |
| Recommendations for a CD player $1500 or less Dave b, Are they an authorized dealer and the unit comes with a USA warranty? I've seen their ads but based on past experience I just assumed they were grey marketing Sony as they have other stuff like Marantz (sold without a USA warranty). | |
| Recommendations for a CD player $1500 or less Buconero, Would you post or e-mail direct the name of your source for that price. I'll order one - I've always wanted to hear SACD's. Thanks | |
| Strange amplifier problem I agree with Almarg. My first thought with a tube amp which blows fuses is to check out the tubes. I keep spare tubes on hand (at a minimum a replacement set) and when a channel starts to have sound issues, glowing tube plates, or blows fuses I ca... | |
| Bookshelves Great history guys!OP has asked about the bass bump. Here is my version of how you hear it. Boomy bass (down in the 60hz range) is not something the LS3/5a can do. The bump, as I recall centered somewhere around 125hz does add something to the spe... | |
| I just bought a Audio Research D-90. Bill - In response to your question ..."what I want to know is if one model of the tubes I mentioned has a better bass reproduction than the others?" I thought I answered that in my last post, but I'll try to put it in another way.An amp designed ... | |
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? Farjamed, You are right. Somehow between my first post and my second post I got completely turned around - I think Drubins comments jerked my chain, more than it should have. I have reread your post and it is perfectly clear. My appologies to you ... | |
| "Watts" Versus "Current" Forgive the intrusion, but I've got a pratical question about the use of the two different amps, i.e. low power high current and high power low current. When driving a speaker at say 10 watts max (including peaks) and your two amps are, say 200wt,... | |
| box to music ratio You do the math - Equipment up and running - Aprox $30,000Equipment in 'reserve' - Aprox $28,000 (don't ask)LP's and CD's about $75,000 (mostly CD's)I'm at home and the system is on whether I'm in the room or the office next to it at least 10 hour... | |
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? Tvad, I agree, sort of.... Normally I would always recommend getting the best pre-amp/amp or integrated first, in fact this is what I always do. I would never build a system around a source. But my point was that he didn't need to change his prese... | |
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? Cerrot, This is NOT a flame. It just happens to occur after your's and Mapman's posts, but is driven by a collection of reasons not assignable to either of you. FWIW, I actually thought the OP had said all he had to say in the original post. He c... | |
| Shorting Plugs and Non-shorting Plugs - Wothwhile? Have I got a short memory or what! LOL.I thought you had cured your hum issue by letting your pre-amp warm up. To isolate your problem to the malfuncion of something internal or interface with something external disconnect everything from the pre-... |