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| The Search Onhwy61, I suspect its not about the gushing, or regurgitation, of the same opinions that bring folks down on BF. While that other poster gushes a fair share, and can be less than a pleasure to endure, there is much more going on with BF which I'm... | |
| Fixing a dent in a whoffer cone Don't know what your woofer cone looks like but there are some possibilities - I'd probably try putting a piece of lightly adhesive tape on the dented portion and gently pulling it out. As an alternative you can try a vacumn cleaner hose, BUT just... | |
| differences between tube and solid state designs Shadrone, I must disagree with you on one point...Your posts suggest that tubophiles are looking for some kind of flat frequency response and must resort to endlessly changing cables 'til we achieve that goal.I would suggest that flat frequency re... | |
| The Search Tarsndo, Zaikesman, and I guess Ellery911 as well, Give Bartockfan a break! Everybody gets lonely from time to time and the 'net makes you feel like you are communicating with someone. Even negative feedback is better than none at all, it proves s... | |
| differences between tube and solid state designs "SS - Flat"Couldn't have said it better myself. I've always found SS amps to sound flat.Sorry, couldn't resist. :-) | |
| Help ...... excesssssssive sssssssssssssssssssss Socaste, Logic, not hands on experience, leads me to a few conclusions based solely on what you have posted regarding your equipment and things you have done to solve your problem. To review, as I understand it you have sibilence with any source m... | |
| tube question As with all tweeks results depends on the basic quality of your equipment and your ability to discern differences. I have used inexpensive tube dampers. They certainly did no harm, but since I use very low noise tubes to begin with I can't honnest... | |
| Zu Druid IV - the real deal? Audiofeil, Tough place for a newbee to seek advise. Ask a reasonable question and you'll get 10 answers, two of which might happen to be right. When the stars are all alighned the right ones will be well phrased and intelligently presented so the ... | |
| Help ...... excesssssssive sssssssssssssssssssss The first obvious question relates to system set up. Have you eliminated hard surfaces at the first reflection points on the side walls, floors and ceilings? They are a big contributor to sibilance, overall brightness, and 'distortion'.Second bigg... | |
| Speaker fed high power then switched to low power? Question 1 - No - using a different amp would make no difference in and of itself, everything else being equal, except for the power differential.Q2 - No.Q3 - Essentially once broken in the effect is permanent, although some claim to hear improvem... | |
| Zu Druid IV - the real deal? Hey don't get on Bartockfan's case. He is still at a point in his learning curve where he doesn't understand the relationships involving gain and speaker efficiency, amp output impedence and the speakers impedence curve let alone being able to act... | |
| Taking audio too seriously? Life would be a huge bore if you didn't have the passion to be obsessive about something! Why not audio? Whats your passion? | |
| DK Design VS.1 Reference mkII - Optimization Tvad, I'll take a stab at the vibration/top issue, by way of example. I have a CDP with case vibrations induced by the transformer. These vibrations are sufficient to rattle the tube innards which increases any potential they have to be microphoni... | |
| DK Design VS.1 Reference mkII - Optimization Tom, Your explanation is as good as any I've seen for the reason this amp sounds best with the top off. Tubes are microphonic to some degree and the less vibrations (from any source) the better. Removing the top would certainly eliminate one poten... | |
| member system photos??? Aball, I was wondering when some one would ask. I lack a digital camera. I'm still a film addict. Go figure, I'm still a tube addict as well. Besides who ever pays any attention to the advise of a newbee anyway. :-) |