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| Proper Toe-in Configuration Larryi covers this quite well. I would only add that Speaker designers assume you can/will set up their speakers in situations that complement their design. For example, one famous maker recommends facing the speakers straight ahead (they had a ve... | |
| Breaking In New Speakers... Use'em. Just don't expect much for the first couple of weeks. Don't sit in the listening chair expecting to hear something wonderful right away. Unless you are dealing with a deadline regarding a return option, just relax. The biggest change will ... | |
| tube rush detection help When you say 'all the tubes', do you mean the power tubes as well. It is easy (relatively) to find a bad tube out of an octet, especially if you started out with a matched set so you don't have to fiddle with bias. You just switch half and if ther... | |
| First Trip outside of Best Buy, a real newbie. I wouldn't presume to tell you what to buy, but FWIW the speakers you heard and described will sound nothing like they did at in the dealers showroom when you get them home. NOTHING! If you have high-quality experience expectations from your purch... | |
| tube rush detection help Sounds more like a noise which would be emitted by a small tube, not a power tube. Just to find out switch the small tubes from amp to amp and see if the hiss follows the change. I haven't typically (if ever) heard or been able to assign just hiss... | |
| how to use gain control on a preamp FWIW, I set the gain so that the volume control's setting is about 12 0'clock. The actual gain setting involved needed depends on the output of the cartridge (or other sources), the input sensitivity of your amp and the efficiency of your speakers... | |
| Acoustic Treatment Newbee Unpainted brick is not dead. For the most part it is just a hard surface with some small pits but it is still reflective.SPL Meter - Radio Shack used to sell inexpensive analogue and digital models. I think they stopped, but someone else now is. D... | |
| Acoustic Treatment Newbee Before you start moving your speakers to the back wall or buying wall treatments, have you played with moving the speakers further out into the room and or moving your listening position closer to the speakers, say 7 ft? You might try adjusting th... | |
| Best 6922 for pre A suggestion. Different pre-amps respond differently to identical tubes. My personal best (or anyones for that matter) does not exist in a vacumm. If you want some help in selecting tubes for your pre-amp and have a predisposition for certain qual... | |
| What makes for a "great" turntable? "...rotational accuracy"FWIW, this issue is, to me, the Achilles heal of the analogue process, whether inherrent problems arrive with the LP or is caused by the TT. I hear and can't stand pitch errors, especially obvious when listening to solo ins... | |
| Supporting Local Audio Stores are we? Mitch2 has, IMHO, presented the history of the demise of B&M dealers, in the most concise and intelligent manner possible. This horse is not only long out of the barn, it has died! Folks who want to make money in the audio industry aught to pa... | |
| "Pictures at an Exhibition" If you want the 'best' get an original RCA LP of Reiner and the CSO, an outstanding recording of an outstanding performance. You'll get a feeling for what RCA Living Stereo is all about if you haven't already heard them on a good system. But it ma... | |
| Golden Tube SE 40 Hiss and Pop problem - Thoughts? Have you tried reversing the tubes, channel to channel and see if the sound follows the tubes? If not, do so first. If that fails my guess would be a cap but you're going to need a techie to fix it. | |
| Supporting Local Audio Stores are we? I used to support my local dealers but they have long since stopped carrying any product I'm interested in. The few that have survived are only interested in HT, and that is probably why they survived. And I live in a community with over 1.5 milli... | |
| Wadia or North Star Would like your thoughts I have the Wadia 302 up and running. It is has a fast crisp tone, fairly balanced, and has good dynamic range. But compared to a lot of CDP's I've listened to, the highs are a bit subdued. If you want 'bright' this is not going to be for you. It g... |