o_holter
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| Atma-sphere amps best power tubes In other words, the RCA 6AS7G tube has worked excellently over four years now. I have associated it with a plus in the overall sound of the MA-1 amps. Set and forget. Ordering a large quantity of these (28 in my case, from Brent Jessee) is a risk,... | |
| Atma-sphere amps best power tubes A little update:The RCA 6AS7Gs have worked fine for the last two years - very stable - nice sound - happy with this set (although I had some failures in the beginning, despite preconditioning them). Driver tubes: I have the four tube (long chassis... | |
| Valve phono stage @lewm - is the Aesthetix Io balanced - sorry for late answer, I only saw your question now. Quote from the manual p 8:"The phono stage contains three main amplification sections and an output buffer section. The first section is a high gain, low... | |
| reports from RMAF, anyone? Any reports impressions of the Audiokinesis system? | |
| Total cost of ownership - how to reduce it Yes, this is my experience also. Former flagships or good upper tier equipment can become a very good buy, bought used, some years later. You just need to look for them - and have an idea, what you are looking for. | |
| Total cost of ownership - how to reduce it Regarding vinyl playback - besides record cleaning, stylus cleaning, arm and cartridge adjustment, correct anti-skating and so on: dont drop the stylus on the lip of the record, so it skips. This means wear and tear on the cartridge. The "lip" is ... | |
| Horns: Why don't they image well? I have Audiokinesis Dream Makers and some months ago I changed the four compression drivers from Celestion CDX1-1445 to PRV Audio D290Py-B. This lifted a veil, and improved imaging too. Not beryllium standard (I guess) but very good for a reasonab... | |
| Small hi-res player? A little update...from my sideBack in 2009 I wrote "We won’t get hi-res players unless we use pressure." Well we used pressure, in various forms - and these players are now available.I am using a Fiio X3 - to good benefit.It plays native DSD. It d... | |
| Good carts with SME V I have mainly done like Chakster proposes. Cartridge first. Start from the source. Then, trickle down, to get the best from the new higher resolution source. Maybe get a better arm, table, phono stage. This strategy has worked well for me. Yet I h... | |
| Total cost of ownership - how to reduce it Wolf_garcia, I do think costs can be reduced - by investigating before you buy, by taking the right kind of care of the things you've bought, and so on. Trying to reduce the chance of failures / repairs. Beyond just turning the system off. With lo... | |
| Switched from RCA to XLR Interconnects - WOW snackeypI - I experienced the same "wow" going from single ended to balanced cabling some years ago, with the Krell FP600 amp. It sounded much better. using balanced cable from the preamp. This has been my experience later also, so now, most of my... | |
| Audiophile recording and playback - Tascam DA-3000 I am doing a new work batch recording from vinyl. Using the DA3000 without any mods. Some notes:- the advice i’ve read is "dont push it", keep to defaults. That way, poor op-amps and similar will have the lowest detrimental effect. So I use the de... | |
| Total cost of ownership - how to reduce it An update:Two fans running, very low cost computer fans, adjusted for low noise, without problems - behind my most critical tube components. Regarding heat x time:I think soldering close to mechanical parts is especially error-prone. Like volume p... | |
| Audiophile recording and playback - Tascam DA-3000 Regarding upgrading the DA3000, especially the input / recording part, Chris as Busman Audio writes:"The mods bring the recorder into another realm of quality with a much more smooth response that is clean and clear but not harsh at all. I felt th... | |
| Vinyl recordings - best methods @bondmanp - yes, different ways. What Ortofon and Denon do you use? I might have considered a better cartridge before doing a lot of vinyl recording. Stanton for back-queuing - can you explain? Thanks |