nsgarch
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| Cartridge Output Axel, when you mentioned you had gain options on your phono board and then I saw 326s, I had to ask myself if you had the owner's manual; because basically, with a tasty preamp like a 326s, you can use any bloody cartridge you please. I have a 26s... | |
| SS Preamp with Tube Amp? Mapman, you understood I was talking about phono preamps right? With regular preamps, tube rolling generally doesn't seem to have much effect on sonics, compared to tube rolling in amps, so I tend to lean toward SS for those. Now of course if some... | |
| SS Preamp with Tube Amp? The reason I would still choose a SS pre over a tube pre (even assuming the highest quality of either) is because to me, transistors are the device of choice for handling very small/weak signals. There are a number of different reason I feel this ... | |
| SS Preamp with Tube Amp? Guido -- there's this marvelous website called Google http://www.google.com where you can not only find out stuff like "waht's a nonosecond?" but you can also look up the correct spelling for common words like what? ;-)Nanosecond definition here: ... | |
| SS Preamp with Tube Amp? The reason for my "pronouncement" ;-) about the 85% contribution of the amp/speaker/speakercable "group" as it affects system sonic character is as follows:A. The amp is where the signal gets processed the most -- multiplied many many times its or... | |
| SS Preamp with Tube Amp? If you can understand why the sonic charcter of any system is determined 85% or more by the amp/speaker (and speaker cable) combo, then you'll understand that if you want "tube sound" then you need a tube amp -- i.e., a tube preamp and a ss amp wo... | |
| Blown woofer from a bad tube? Is this possible? I really doubt it.First, because if the tube had leaked (silver getter turned white) then it couldn't sustain any current from the cathode to the anode, and so your DAC would have no output on that channel.Second, you would have heard something na... | |
| "A bit of noise is completley normal" ?? Foster, if your piece of equipment is of reasonably high caliber, as you now imply, then even without being technically sophisticated, you really could have answered your own question, bypassed the rep, and taken the issue right to the top, as you... | |
| Power Surge Damage surge suppression up to 20,000 amps.:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-). | |
| Power Surge Damage Lightening can even jump across open circuit breakers, so always unplug. It's the best insurance, in fact, except for isolation transformers with derived grounds, it's the ONLY insurance. | |
| "A bit of noise is completley normal" ?? Cw, you almost had me!! But now I'd really like to know the identity of the unit in question, something I think Mr. Foster should have provided in his original post. | |
| re-burn in? is there such a thing. Components (of all kinds) basically burn in once when they're new -- but let me qualify that: this is true if what one means by "burn-in" has to do mainly with "setting" or "forming" the interfaces between conductors and dielectrics (not just wiri... | |
| "A bit of noise is completley normal" ?? "I have a high end integrated amplifier."Well. I'm not going to call YOU a liar, but I might have a few choice words for the manufacturers rep!OK, yes, it's "normal" if:The unit is over 10 years old and needs to have the switches and volume/balanc... | |
| exactpower ep 15A PB, I'll try and take a minute to look into the two balanced models you mentioned and post any pros/cons I might discover. If I forget, feel free to email me and remind me ;-)As for your other quandries ;-) here's my approach:1.) Put in those dedi... | |
| exactpower ep 15A I'm tentatively getting together with Bob at the end of July, so I'll have a better idea what he's thinking then.Poonbean, balanced power has application primarily with low power devices (not usually amplifiers, in other words) that handle small s... |