newbee
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| Can anyone recommend a smooth, rich CD player? This probably won't be of interest to you, unfortunately in my view, but in recent weeks myself and another A'Goner have fortutiously, and independently, discovered the potential of the Cal Alpha and Sigma DAC's when driven by the Digital section ... | |
| Springs for homemade isolation stand "If I knock lightly" - the best way to eliminate this feedback is don't knock at all! :-) You are creating a condition that does not exist under normal user circumstances. Most of the acoustic problems from vibrations come from airborne vibrations... | |
| Tube pre- or amp: does it matter? Most folks start their introduction to tubes with a tube pre-amp. Its a lot easy to use, the effects are more noticible to most people, and all you have to be concerned about is the matching of its output (gain and impedence) to an appropriate amp... | |
| Dumb question about Speaker Positioning Acoustically speaking, I would think the ideal position of your speakers based on 2 channel performance, would work equally well with all sources, as the proper positioning controls very critical sonic considerations such as bass response (flat - ... | |
| Good sources for tubes other than Upscale For new production tubes I've had very good luck and service from Tube Depot and recommend them. | |
| Which is more important, spkr. or intrc. cable? In my view speakers cables make the most noticable difference, if for no other reason is that folks usually run longer speaker cables which will make their differences more noticible. Choice of IC's might well depend on their use, probably more so... | |
| Any CAL experts out there. The digital out I referred to was the new CDP's. Sorry for the confusion. Most CDP's have a digital out where you can use its transport section to drive a different DAC. Typically they use a 75ohm cable, sometimes with a different connector. | |
| 4 ohm speakers, 2, 4 or 8 ohm taps on amps It's really not a issue of 'safe' so much as sonic's, especially if absolute power is not an issue. Use the tap which sounds best to you. Try them all for that matter. I have a 160wt SF amp and I drive 4 ohm speakers with a minimum of 3.5 ohms off... | |
| Any CAL experts out there. Jakgooze, I realize this may not be responsive to your inquiry, but I just wanted to echo Zinfan2. I have an early, but updated Delta hooked up to an Alpha, and a Sigma II for back up. Got a new CDP and out of the box it was bright, edgy, and dry ... | |
| Blown tube Just noted that you said your amp is self biasing --FWIW I've a self biasing amp - put in a new set of tubes and one tube's plates started to glow red. Changed it out thinking it might just be the tube, the next tube also glowed red. Returned the ... | |
| Blown tube Power tubes do short out on occasions - some brands are more prone to this than others. You are fortunate if all you got was a blown tube....in some amps you will take out a bias resistor and/or a fuse. The only way to avoid tubes shorting out is ... | |
| SVETLANA 6550 C FOR PREMIER 12 AMP The ones which come in the blue box are the 'original' brand of Svetlana, now known as SED. The Svetlana name was bought and the new Svetlana tubes are essentially Sovteks. The Old Svetlana (SED - Winged C's) are the preferred tube sonically. | |
| Tube Suggestions Onix SP3 The tube which went out, if it shorted out, could well have damaged some of the electronics in the bias circuit. This is not a rare event. I've had it happen 4 times on three different amps in the past 10 years. Probably time to take it into a rep... | |
| Need help - High-end cabling strategy Nice to have the stuff and the means. I pretty much agree with Nsgarch, with only one or two small deviations. I would work backwards from the speakers - speaker cables 1st, pre-amp to amp IC's next, source IC's and lastly PC's, for pretty much th... | |
| Let's add a Spell Check to Audiogon Don't kned no dammed spell cheker, I kneds a gramma cheker! One of the blessin's of our beein illerate fo yu guys is with yo perfec language ya'll look so smart - hell, we'll even think yo know what yo is talkin bout. :-) |