newbee
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| Bass tones and low cost tubes for a Jolida 502B In my Cayin amp I use the Sovtek KT88 and the JJ 803 with excellent results. I find both as described in the tubestore description. I've used the Sovteks for many years and have found them very reliable. The JJ's are new to me.If you want a fuller... | |
| Perreaux Preamps FWIW, I owned a SM3 for a year or so and I agree with Frogman. Not my cup of tea either. I traded it in for an ARC SP10. No mistake there. The difference was huge. I had a Perreaux stack and the best component in it was the TU3 tuner which I kept ... | |
| Audible Illusions hiss It seems like a no brainer. Your tubes are used up and/or have always been noisy. This unit requires low noise AND rugged tubes. It has a reputation for that which precedes your problem. FWIW, in light of other advise to the contrary, the line sta... | |
| how important is linestage preamp with vinyls only The pre-amp's line stage is important and its presence is audible and influential on the signal it receives either from a phono stage (or an outboard phono stage) CDP, what ever. If your phono stage has tubes and your line stage has tubes then you... | |
| Stereo and Fish tanks - noisy need help I used to run a 160 gal saltwater tank. But I had all of my power filters in the garage about 20 feet away. I was able to run the plumbing thru the wall (unusual floor plan) but you could run it under the house if you have a raised foundation w/wo... | |
| Frustrated with the sound of my system Good for you! No specific recommendations, however FWIW, I'll pass on a couple of things that helped me find the 'music' in digital, and to find a benchmark set of IC's and speaker cable, i.e. cost vs performances. A tubed CDP! What a difference t... | |
| Cardas Speaker placement.. Spaz, forgive my laziness I haven't read all of the posts. FWIW you are going thru something that I had to do some years ago in a slightly smaller room with similar dimensions/shape. Have you tried moving your speakers AND your listening chair bac... | |
| Frustrated with the sound of my system Rrog, You may be right, but nothing ventured nothing gained. Someone had to tell him the unvarnished truth. What he does with the information is his business. Telling him to put thin band-aids on a serious wound accomplishes nothing other than get... | |
| Frustrated with the sound of my system Stuartbmw3, I won't cheat you out of the pleasure of finding the Cardas methodology on line, but I would like to say that it is more applicable in concept than any particular specificity. I haven't read it in years but as I recall for box speakers... | |
| Frustrated with the sound of my system I think there is a fatal flaw in trying to get good sound from this system, apart from the sonic's of the equipment which I agree may not approach optimum. The OP sez that the speakers are 5ft apart and he listens to them from 12 feet back. The sp... | |
| Hum, buzz, snap, crackle and pop? You need to have high quality low noise tubes. I changed out all of the OEM tubes in my WOO headphone amp for just those reasons. Hiss and buzz. Perhaps someone with your headphone amp can make a recommendation. Headphones are very revealing and a... | |
| Unfocused Sound stage Sounds like you speakers may be wired out of phase. Try reversing +/- connectors on one speaker. | |
| Getting started w/ tube equipment Assuming that your speakers are compatible with tube amps, and many are not, I would start with something both reliable and easy to play with.Depending on your expectations, getting good sounding tube based audio systems can be seen as a black art... | |
| "Best" 80's HiFi System Audio Research SP10II, Audio Research D115II, and Quad ESL 63's, with an Oracle TT, MMT arm and Grace 9E cartridge. As close to (affordable) SOTA in 1985 as I could get. | |
| Replacing ARC SP-12 If you really like the SP12 don't change it, just get a remote volume control like the Creek 12, or for higher quality a one input Placette, and put it in the tape loop. I did that with my old SP10 and only used it when necessary by flipping the t... |