nsgarch
Responses from nsgarch
| McIntosh and Brystons: Fair comparison ? Forget about same league. They're not even the same design-wise. The Brystons are 'pure' solid-state and excellent sound for the money. McIntosh has stupidly IMO tacked autoformers on after the output stage to very dubious "user-friendly" benefit,... | |
| Genalex Gold Lion EL84 Well, you only mentioned the Dynaco in your OP, so I just assumed you were talking abour EL 34's ;--)Frankly, all those "reissues" from New Sensor in Russia are not notable for great sound. They do the job is all you can say about them. If you wan... | |
| Genalex Gold Lion EL84 You mean EL 34's don't you? In which case (if you want the ultimate in sonics) I would recommend the NOS Genalex (but VERY expensive!)JJ currently makes a KT77 that a lot of people seem to like, and they're not too expensive:http://thetubestore.co... | |
| Heard McIntosh 275 For The First Time. Phillyb -- If the Cardas caps work THAT well, all I can say is your environment must be AWASH in airborne RFI (radio frequency interference.)Do you have any idea where it could be coming from? Machinery; or perhaps a HAM operator next door? Fluore... | |
| Mixed driver tube for Mcintosh MC275 Tzh21y -- if you go to the Cardas website >> products >> speaker cables >> Golden Presence, you will see that speaker cable has a capacitance of 168 picofarads/foot. Just as a reference, the maximum suggested capacitance for elec... | |
| Mixed driver tube for Mcintosh MC275 Tzh21y -- If you like the JPS product, you should stick with them, perhaps throughout your system for synergy. I just don't like (almost) any of Cardas' products because of their high capacitance (especially of their speaker cables) and the excess... | |
| Stillpoints Apopira, are you referring to the mini-risers, or the full size ones? And what are you using the SP's for/under? I'm very knowledgable about using Stillpoints as well as the Stillpoints Component Stands. | |
| Mixed driver tube for Mcintosh MC275 Tzh21y --1.) I don't think there is anything at all wrong with your hearing! I'm 68 and I KNOW my hearing isn't what it used to be (to say the LEAST!!) however my ability to LISTEN is better than ever ;--) I wish I could go over your system with y... | |
| Mixed driver tube for Mcintosh MC275 Well Tzh21y, I don't know how you worded your inquiry to the McIntosh tech, nor did I hear his response. However, I'm a little suspicious of his words as you reported themtheir tech support told me that V-1 is definitely in the signal path when us... | |
| Mixed driver tube for Mcintosh MC275 Tzh21y, do you know how to read schematics? I'm guessing you don't, because if you can make a statement like "I don't care what the schematic says" etc., then you'll never understand that there is a cause-effect relationship behind ALL audio exper... | |
| Mixed driver tube for Mcintosh MC275 I wrote the post Mr. Yewlock quotes. There are only three electrical differences between the Mk IV and the MkV:1. The Mk IV is a regular lead based chassis. The Mk V is lead free. This is nice for the environment (maybe) but there have been some f... | |
| kt88 tube placement Rojo, There is no convection inside a vacuum tube because there is no air or other gas to convect, so all internal elements (except the filament/cathode) are at the same temp, assuming all the operating voltages are within spec.Besides, not all KT... | |
| kt88 tube placement Lemme 'splain Lucy! If you take the tube in your hand and hold it horizontally, with pin 4 at the top and pin 8 at the bottom, (or vice versa!) you will notice that the plate inside the bottle has its narrow face(s) on the 'top' and 'bottom', whil... | |
| Glue to attach speaker cloth to plastic? Magfan, you're quite right, 3M 77 can get away from you if you're not careful ;-) However, here are a couple of tips that should help; actually they apply to all aerosol preparations:1. Shake, shake shake! For a full two minutes before use and for... | |
| Am I limiting current to my amps and sub? OK, so you have two D.O.'s (duplex outlets) are they both on the same circuit? My advice would be to turn them each into a 20A dedicated circuit, if there's room on your panel for two more 20a breakers. Tip: when you create two or more ded. cts., ... |