newbee
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| 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 ... | |
| Need Kt88s Genelex? or Shuguang? What aspect are you trying to 'up-grade'. Tone? FR? Clarity?For example, I use SED KT88's on one amp which may be a tad needy of some upper bass warmth and a little upper mid's and highs 'sparkle' but I use SED 6550's in another amp where I need t... | |
| Who likes LATIN JAZZ? French fries, FWIW I find very little wrong with you stating your preferences in Latin jazz, any jazz, pop or classical! We all have them. I'm not entranced by long showy congo drums solo's either (but I've got some African drumming that just ligh... | |
| Norah Jones a tinge short Jswarnke, Couldn't agree with you more about Butler. Excellent! I didn't read all of the posts carefully but I didn't notice any mention of Mary Stallings, Rene Marie, or for that matter Shirley Horn - of course these are jazz singers not pop/rock... | |
| Your Favorite Classical Music Recordings Based on your comments about solo piano music I would suggest that you consider the following for exploration -1)Brahms Intermezzi Op117 (etc) by Idit Biret on Naxos2)Chopin Nocturnes by Ivan Moravec on Non-Such3)Debussy Preludes by Paul Jacobs on... |