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| Best tubes for sonic frontiers power 2? Ellyjr, First a caveat - I've never heard a Power Two in my home in my system. I have used and still own its predecessor, a SFS 80 as well as its larger brother the SFM160 the predecessor to the Power 3. I used Sovtek 6550's, GE6550's, SED6550's, ... | |
| Unstable Imaging - Causes? Does this high frequency shift mainly on loud levels? If so it is entirely possible that your cartridge or the combo of it and the arm is causing a mistracking which causes, for some ellusive reason I can't comprehend, some uneven and excessive hi... | |
| How much air into Townshend 3-D Seismic Sink FWIW, I haven't looked at my Townshend in years, but as I recall it had a small red led that indicated it was properly inflated and when the light went out it needed more air. It came with a wall wart to supply power to the led. It also came with ... | |
| Best tubes for sonic frontiers power 2? If your amp will sound 'better' by using 'better' tubes, how in your mind will the 'better sound' sound? Fuller, warmer bass; tighter bass, deeper bass; warmer mid-range, fuller/faster mid-range; warmer upper mid-range, smoother highs; crystal cle... | |
| How am I frying all my amps? Oscillating? Help GS5556, You have a good point. I fried an amp (and subsequently a tweeter) with DC from a tube amp into a SS amp w/out transformers (contrarty to the pre-amp designers intention). I'm so provincial, I'm not familar with his stuff and I just assume... | |
| How am I frying all my amps? Oscillating? Help Yep, I think you are right about the appearance/design of the cable causing (or not) high(er)capacitance. My fading memory of problems not personally encountered. I read a lot of stuff but have zero retension skills. But, I think I did get you to ... | |
| How am I frying all my amps? Oscillating? Help FWIW, as I recall the speaker cable types than can typically cause osscillations in an amp are those which have widely spaced positive and negative wires. I suggest that you take a few moments and do some research on this issue in Google - there a... | |
| How am I frying all my amps? Oscillating? Help Don't know about your speaker cables, but some designs do cause ossilations in an amp. Remove your present cables and try some old fashion 12 guage copper cables and see if that solves your problem. If so, you can then simply refocus your attentio... | |
| Best tubes for sonic frontiers power 2? IMO most folks who post asking about tubes that 'sound' better are really unhappy with some aspect of the sound of thier unit, i,e, too bright, boomy bass, rolled highs, etc. It would be much more productive if you would post about how you perciev... | |
| How do I "compromise" speaker placement Flat isn't possible except under the most ideal conditions in a fairly large room. Placement of speakers too close to the wall behind them is the biggestest contributor to getting an uneven frequency response below, say, 500 hz. The next biggest c... | |
| Unstable Imaging - Causes? Couple of simple things - perhaps the tweeter on the right side is revealing the effect of reflections from surfaces around the right speaker that are not like the room reflections from the speaker on the left side. The first thing I would do is t... | |
| how long should you use tubes in an amp? For sure it would be measured in hours. I burn thru a set of tubes on average between 2000 and 3000 hours which takes place in about one year. My stuff operates at least 8 hours a day or more.There are a lot of varibles in power tube life, not the... | |
| how long should you use tubes in an amp? Roger Modjeski, Isn't he the guy that sells tubes as well as some fine amps. Interestingly, Randall Smith of Mesa Engineering who designed the Baron sez on page 18 of the Barons manual (I happen to own a Baron by the way) "Based on our experience ... | |
| how long should you use tubes in an amp? I don't think tubes really 'lose' power as they age, assuming that you regularily re-bias them, and the bias comes up to factory spec (already set out on the Barons meters as 0). When you can no longer get the tubes up to 0 or the tone becomes 'du... | |
| Need Kt88s Genelex? or Shuguang? The reissue KT88 Gold Lions may be just the ticket for you. I've read about the reliability issues. Sonically, as they have been described to me, they may be just the ticket. May be. I've not heard them in your amp. I would suggest that you would ... |