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| My system is bright? I need help. thanks Scientist73, Perhaps its just me, but I would suggest that, as you originally suggested, a diagram would be wonderful. | |
| My system is bright? I need help. thanks Tvad, You are right of course. Other than to ask the manufacturer/designer of the specific speaker what the minimum recommended listening distance was, the only way you can find out is to move your speakers and sweet seat about and you have tried ... | |
| My system is bright? I need help. thanks Tvad, The problem in trying to help Scientist73 is fundamentally we don't have a basic undertanding of his room. We don't even really know its dimensions, we don't know where his listening position possibilities are, ad infinitum ad naseum. I thin... | |
| My system is bright? I need help. thanks Scientist73, Glad playing with toe in helped a bit. There was a recent thread "Acoustic Treatments - What, how much and where" - which you might find very interesting. Its lengthy with a lot of opinions (as always) however it does have some good i... | |
| My system is bright? I need help. thanks One of the thing biggest things that can cause excessive brightness, other than component selection/synergy is the speakers radiation pattern. Speakers which have a broad dispersion pattern can suffer from 1st reflection point induced distortion w... | |
| Unison Unico SE noise Dumb question time - where is your ear when you hear this low level noise. In the listening position or at the speaker? If the latter you may just be hearing the noise floor of your amp or, more probably the noise floor of the particular tubes Wal... | |
| Is Digital actually better than Analog? ROTFLMAO. What a great sense of humor. Love it! | |
| What should be the first component when upgrading? "Perhaps, as Drubin intimates...."Yep, provided you have lots of loot and patience. I think its would be nice to have a 'plan' in the first place, but most folks tackle upgrading incrementally and empirically, I know I did. If I was going to start... | |
| CAL Alpha and an Equalizer Mr T, There are a number of folks on the AA tube forum that have posted positive comments about these tubes. Haven't heard them myself, and I don't know what about them differentiates them from the croud. Nor have I heard anyone describe them as r... | |
| Is Digital actually better than Analog? No. They are just different formats. One is NOT superior to the other and you need both if you have any real interest in music. Both formats have serious plus' and minus'. Which set you happen to prefer will more likely be the one that fits your p... | |
| Tube Amp "Ringing" FWIW, my reference to "low level ringing" was ringing not seperately audible as ringing no matter where you were standing, but was a very low level ringing mixed into the main signal. If I can actually hear a tube ring with out touching it, it goe... | |
| PrimaLuna Prologue 1 or 2? Craig, Unless you spring for the PL3 and PL7 go with the the PL2, at least based on my experience with the PL5 that's what I would do. Read the review of 6moons. I think he's pretty spot on on the combo. I've had conversations with Kevin Deal abou... | |
| Tube Amp "Ringing" If you can hear ringing without toughing your tubes they need to be replaced. Dampers will help reduce ringing a bit but that would be for low level ringing inherent in the tube or caused by outside forces. IMHO. | |
| Tube Amp "Ringing" Microphonic tubes cause ringing. Probably time to replace one or more of the small signal tubes. You can tell which one(s) is the culpert by lightly tapping on the tube, lightly(!). | |
| PrimaLuna Prologue 1 or 2? Craig, Your question to Rarl re power v pre, is sort of a chicken/egg question and you'll get many folks taking up both positions. For folks just coming to 'tubes' the pre-amp is usually the best choice if only for the reason that its easier to ma... |