newbee
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| One's trash is someone else's treasure LOL. You just passed some major gas during a church service. Trying to apologize doesn't help at all. Phew!You'll just get more glares from the congregation whose mean age is probably a lot closer to your victim's than yours.FWIW I agree with Mr T... | |
| Am I going crazy or? Yep. A whole lot of folks are asking too much for some very ordinary stuff. But, if you are tying to sell a high quality, expense, product admired by many but affordable to few you can't expect to sell if at a fair price in a short period of time.... | |
| combining different cables IMHO the need to use "ONLY" the same brand of IC's and cables is a myth circulated by manufacturers and salesmen. As synergy is an issue with combining components and speakers so it is wiring issues. The components you are using and the sonics you... | |
| How to evaluate preamps? The only way I know of to accurately evaluate any components insertion into an existing system is to have references (recordings) which are an intregal part of your musical memory and represent instruments, including voice, which replicate your im... | |
| while waiting on a preamp for my DEFY 7/6550's FWIW, In my post I made NO recommendations, just gave you some info to consider before you commit yourself to tube selection or amp modifications. FWIW, from your comments about the sounds you want from a tube amp, including your selection of smal... | |
| while waiting on a preamp for my DEFY 7/6550's If you hate 6550's compared to KT90's you're really going to hate EL34's. Compared to 6550's they are a warmer, 'mid-range magic' tube. Sounds nothing like the KT90 or 6550. Beleive it or not the 6550 (SED's anyway) is much closer to the KT90 and ... | |
| Tube handling/designations Call BAT before you start sub'ing tubes. Most anything that takes 6DJ8's can take 6922/6h23's BUT not everything that takes 6922's can run 6DJ8's as effectively. They are not identical tubes. FWIW. | |
| Bad Tube in an Audible Illusion M3A Some pre-amps require rugged tubes. My SP10II is one, your AI is another. Many, probably most, popular tubes suffer early death (get noisy) in these units. Often 100 hours or less. I use NOS 6h23. They will work well in your AI. Not a 'warm' tube ... | |
| Is this bad? Here is a possibility, assuming that the guy you bought this from was honest about biasing before sale. I'm sure you thought about it...If he did it, he knows how, can tell you how, can tell you the optimum bias point, you can get a meter and chec... | |
| Is this bad? Do you know how to bias the tubes? If not you should find out and check the bias on the tube. Perhaps the distributor can give you this information if your don't have a manual. You could have a potential major tube failure in your future which mig... | |
| Is this bad? Select the output taps based on sonic's. Electrically it won't make much difference unless your speakers have a significant minumum impedence, in which case the 4ohm taps will probably sound best (control the bass).The tube issue you mention is to... | |
| Best Place for Negative Reviews? "Listen for fun and read to learn" should be, IMHO, Listen for fun and learn to read. :-) Sorry, couldn't resist. | |
| What song best describes you or your life? Frank Sinatra's "I did it my way", or so my wife sez! :-) But, I do identify with the sentiment. | |
| Best Place for Negative Reviews? Its interesting how some see product promotion in some reviews when careful reading by folks familar with the reviewer and the products in general can find all kinds of picks and nits which would kill a purchase. Interesting kind of conundrum - th... | |
| Insanely Expensive....and Worth Every Penny Mr Tennis (and others), In my view the fault in the original question was the use of the words "insanely expensive" which have apparently been criticized by those who interpert them too literally. To someone on a limited budget much could be seen ... |