oldhvymec
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| Audioquest Rocket 33, anyone knows how to take off the banana plug end? The description on the web site says "gold plated terminal ends"Spade "Y", banana, and pins.It really shouldn't tarnish, how about polishing the ends, clean, then use "Nevr-Dull" to polish them up.. Great, and non abrasive.They talk all kinds of ... | |
| Tube rolling on Leven CS 600 I would look to the signal valves, if it's a tad bright. 6L6 are not really known for being bright. The 6CS7 signal valves, are not a cheap valve either. I would look to GE, RCAs and stay away from Sylvanias, they can be brighter than most (they h... | |
| Tube rolling McIntosh c2600 preamp? If you want a little nugget for Mac, don’t use Golden Lyon, for signal valves. Mac used GL to voice MC275, but only their power valves, but never their signal valves. Mac used Tellies, Amprex, (Mulards), RCAs (if you can find BP), Volvo. PSVANE is... | |
| WHat did Audiophiles hear during Tape deck era? It went Vinyl, Reel to Reel, cassette 1969 (?) (it didn’t catch on) then 4 track, then 8 track, then cassette finally caught on 1979 (?) maybe 1980. 8 track was already gone. Boxes everywhere at garage sales and swap meets. The problem with casset... | |
| Cleaning tube pins NEVR-DULL is a cotton batting, with a chemical cleaner that is for cleaning only, solvent and a light oil (like @Rislone). You dip the pins several times into the batting. They will clean right up, with no material removal. 6-20.00 usd (depends o... | |
| Tube rolling McIntosh c2600 preamp? Real simple if you have stock valves, change them, they are BAD..I've had 50 years with Mac.. Amperex, Tellies, Good RCA if you can find them. PSVANE is a great new option. The stock valves Mcintosh has used for the last 20 years are just cheap...... | |
| Build or buy, speaker options I’m not acquainted with your speakers. Seas and Morel, drivers I’ve used both. I’m not a commercial speaker builder. I’ve built close to 130 pairs over 45 years or so. There is nothing that gives me greater pleasure, than to hear a 3 year project ... | |
| Why no Virtual System pics?? jaytor181 posts05-29-2020 6:36pmOK. You inspired me to add some photos and explanations. https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8726 Geez, nice system.. So did you do the paint too. GR sure has some nice stuff. I have a pair of trip kits, but I w... | |
| Cardas Clear Rev 1 IC My copper IC, take about 40 hours. 8-24 hours they lose a little volume, and the tone control gets a pretty good work out. 20-40 hours the volume comes back and the tone is pretty flat.Silver or silver clad, 100 + hours. Silver clad is the worst. ... | |
| Your One Bullet Point Solution; Electrical Upgrade oldhvymecThe comment about not being able to get the 100 amps, that just isn’t the case..The amperage is almost unlimited ...Sorry, but you don’t know what you are talking about. your right I should have said "can be, almost unlimited".I don’t hav... | |
| Youngsters these days. But anyone who says to their grandfather Ok boomer, I wouldn't hold my breath.He's a kid..MC, still wet behind the years, NOT EARS.. LOLIt's a pure term of endearment.. Besides. I can still bear hugmy 375 lb speakers around, at 65.. kids don't m... | |
| Youngsters these days. There kids...My kids were brought up with me making, fixing or something to do with stereos their whole lifes. It's what they know. My son and daughter both are jostling for position in the who gets what, from the Mcintosh, and speaker sheds. She ... | |
| NAS Fried I looked up your little enclosure, cool. It should fail safe. The enclosure shouldn't take out the devices, if that is what failed. Scsi based tec. different degrees of error correction and safe storage, mirrored drive for hot swap, etc. Depend... | |
| Your One Bullet Point Solution; Electrical Upgrade Get the 200 amp. Minimum. I had a 100 main, the city recommended 300. The problem is a lot of the mains NOW are 400. They kinda skip 300 and go from 200 to 400, in a lot of the big box stores. You can order them, though.The sub panels normally are... | |
| NAS Fried Is it just for music or a backup for data to?What are you willing to lose? If you have BUs your good, if not..I use to do data recovery. I often talked people out of the recovery, it was costly. Especially recovery from a dead "disk" hard drive,... |