newbee
Responses from newbee
| RCA interconnects for tube amp setup under $100. You can get some 5' IC's from Blue Jeans for about $35. IMHO these a 'benchmark' for inexpensive cabling, neutral in tone, have low capacitance, and tonally should match your components. FWIW, I think Tpreaves is thinking that VA will recommend in... | |
| O.C.D. Speaker placement Mismatched differences between your ears/speakers by an inch or less should make no significent difference. If it does your should pick it up in hearing a slight shift in the stereo imaging towards the speaker furthest way. But that is only with y... | |
| Raysonic gone belly up, is this a hoax? Read on... While the employees post seems a bit over the top I wouldn't conclude that they didn't have a basis for it. Raysonic changed USA distributors about a year an a half ago. I recently read some posts regarding repair disatisfaction with both Raysonic... | |
| Best "Giant Killer" Value Cables For... Nothing wrong with Blue Jeans IC's or the Belden or Canare speaker cable. Its benchmark for inexpensive cable as far as I'm concerned and fairly neutral so far as I can tell. | |
| How much to replace a new laser on the Denon 3910? I don't know what repair services you have available in your area, but if you have a local repair shop don't overlook them. Replacing a laser isn't rocket science. I just had one replaced on a Raysonic for $180. Two dealers quoted over $400 (plus ... | |
| Preamp - 18 dB Gain too low? Trust the manufacturer's spec's, especially since they are consonant with your issues. | |
| I don't like the sound of my system. Help please. Perhaps your speaker/listening position could be tweaked some to improve your frequency respponse as well as eliminating harshness etc. I think you are pushing the edge of what is possible out of SS components in a tough room, but if the speakers ... | |
| Tubes going bad??? Simple and angst free method. Keep at least one set of spare tubes about. When you think your sound may be deteriorating insert the new tubes and see if there is a noticible difference (they should have about 24 hours to settle in). If you can't h... | |
| A few basic tube questions Well, FWIW, while your assumption sounds logical, in practice it is meaningless, in your case especially.The Quicksilver uses two small tubes, one 12AX7, and one 6922. The Dodd uses two 6922's (or 6h30's). So what you can conclude from that is tha... | |
| A few basic tube questions If you want to be successful and minimize your costs in finding the best tubes for your amp and pre-amp ity is recommended that you do nothing until you can answer the question "What sonically do you want to change about your system with your tube... | |
| When does non-delivery become a crime? It could have been a fraud or it could have been bad business practices. Depends. More often than not a dealer will take yours and other customers deposits and use them to operate his business. If he is in financial trouble and doesn't have the mo... | |
| Distorted Small tubes in pre-amp or amp are getting noisy, I suspect. I'd bet it was the pre-amp tubes but you never know. Leave the pre-amp off and listen to the amp with your ears close to the mid range/tweeter drivers. No noise? Then turn on the pre-amp ... | |
| Preamp - 18 dB Gain too low? Nguyen 878, 4v sensitivity is quite low which I think was implied by Marakantz in his first post. A sensitivity between .5v and 1.5v is much more common and fairly high. | |
| preamp with phono stage as a "phono module"? The way you are connecting it you will have 2 volume controls in the chain, one too many. Take the tape out from the PS audio and connect it to a line input on the other pre-amp. That should work fine. | |
| Preamp - 18 dB Gain too low? 1 to 2 o'clock is just fine, in fact it may be the best postition to get the maximum performance out of your pre-amps volume control. 26db was common when vinyl was king and low output phono pre-amps were used. Amps also had lower sensitivity. Wit... |