newbee
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| Will Changing my 100 Watt Tube Amp to a 200 Watt SS Amp Solve My Problem? Mark, Maybe a dumb question, but exactly where are you when you can first hear the noise? When you are in your listening chair? 6' from your speakers? 6" from your speakers? I know some folks, of the anal sort, like me perhaps, who put their ear r... | |
| Will Changing my 100 Watt Tube Amp to a 200 Watt SS Amp Solve My Problem? Does it have a quiet phono stage? Or you could buy a gun. Personally, I I had to go solid state I think I'd choose the latter! :-) | |
| Will Changing my 100 Watt Tube Amp to a 200 Watt SS Amp Solve My Problem? John, Is the adjustibility of gain is the LS25 applied after the source but before the volume control and line stage amplification (tubes). It did on my ARC Pre (a different model). The blurb I read on this pre-amp talked about the ability to red... | |
| Tube Rolling questions from a recent addict: Re your sonic preferences, perhaps a new production power tube to consider would be the Tung-Sol 6550. It has a little extra bass tone. I use them in one of my Primaluna amps, and a Cayin Amp, quite happily. The new production Genalex Gold Lion ... | |
| Tube Rolling questions from a recent addict: FWIW, IMHO, the principal benefit in changing tubes, power or small tubes, is to either get a more quiet tube (small tubes), get more power (from some large tube types) or more likely just changing the tone (all tubes).If you are thinking about ch... | |
| Mesa Baron I have one I'm willing to sell. It uses 5881's and has had factory mod's using Wima Caps. I'm in California. If you are interested PM me. BTW I'm the original owner. | |
| Importance of input tubes to sound quality? FWIW I think I was wrong about tubes in this amp. So far I've only found reference to the 6922's and atmosphere is right with this amp. Now if I could just remember the amp I was thinking about. Italian perhaps? | |
| Importance of input tubes to sound quality? Atmosphere, These tubes may be interchangeable in an LSA amp. As I recall anyway. | |
| Is a KT-77 a plug in for a KT-88? Not unless your amp is designed to accommodate them. Some amps can take both the smaller power tubes (KT77, EL34, 6L6GC, etc) and the larger ones (6550,KT88, KT90, KT120, and KT150), such as some made by Primaluna and Cary, most cannot. Check with... | |
| Importance of input tubes to sound quality? Of course they do but I'm sure there are a lot of folks who just aren't tuned into the degree of difference they might make. Some times it is fairly subtle and sometimes it is obvious depending what your equipment/set up is and how developed your ... | |
| Marantz FWIW, whether you like a high end Marantz CD player or not may more depend on the rest of your system than anything else. I have a Wadia 302 and a Raysonic 128 CDP. I tuned my system (using tubes in my integrated amps) to a give me a sound with a ... | |
| Can changing speaker cables often require adjusting speaker placement? I sort of agree with Mofimadness--I really have no idea of space limitations in your room so forgive my ignoring problems that may prevent you doing anything, but here is what I would do to optomize the sound, and perhaps correct the 'forwardness'... | |
| Connections Putting the accessories between the amp and pre- amp changes the signal emanating from the pre-amp. This is a strong signal but it might affect the impedance values seen by the amp and damp it somewhat. I don't know in this case but I think since ... | |
| I have seen some Interesting comments about Mcintosh lately dchang, Its not that Rolex makes bad watches, just that they are nothing special unless you just happen to really like their casework. You buy their case and their reputation much like a lot of audio equipment you see advertised in the audio magaz... | |
| Jazz for aficionados In the event that someone doesn't remember (or never read) the Brer Rabbit story, substitute therefore the warning about the results of wrestling with pigs. :-) |