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| How should you treat your tubes? Tbg, I didn't say the SS amp caught fire. It caused a woofer to start burning. I was there, we started smelling something burning. We naturally thought it was the electonics but as we investigated, it was coming from the speaker. The paper woofer ... | |
| How should you treat your tubes? Lot of good responses. Seems like it comes down to 2 things. What will make it sound the best and what will make it last the longest. For sound, leave it on 24/7 for a week or even a month, then try cycling it. Decide for yourself if it makes any ... | |
| Headphone outlet on SET amplifier In almost all cases you want a load connected to a tube amp. You could hook up a dummy load to it so you wouldn't have to reconnect all the time. I'm not sure how to do it but maybe someone here can explain how. | |
| SET amp with solid state preamp It would work extremely well with a good SS pre. With a bad one, not so much. | |
| Best vintage Marantz receivers? If you're an FM fan, the Model 18 and 19 had their top tuners inside them with the really cool ocilloscope. Only 40 and 50 wpc if that will do. I also like the 22xx series. | |
| Power conditioners Shadorne, That's a dam good analogy :-)I have experienced 50 wpc amps sounding more powerful than some 200 wpc ones on my Maggie 3.6's no doubt due to their nice power supply. | |
| Leave an amp "on" permanetly I think there are pros & cons both ways. You say you hear a difference in cold vs warmed up. Do you hear a difference between warmed up vs 24/7? I do a little of both, like with my car. I'm not going to turn the engine off at every red light t... | |
| Sonus Faber , Should the Tweeter be in or out ? Always what sounds best to you. In general, when you have speakers that are offset or mirror imaged, like yours, if the speakers are fairly close together you put the tweeters on the outside. Speakers farther apart, tweeters on the inside. | |
| Speaker Cables for SET Amp My experience is I like thin, generally copper, but silver with the right dielectric is the best I have found. Check out the Cardas website. He offers a special cable for SE amps which, btw, happens to be very thin. I bought their SE-15 based on T... | |
| Can tube amps give true high end bass? I think it's horses for courses. My choice for an amp if I was going to play Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze would be SS. I'd want that woofer going out as far as it could and coming back and stopping when it should. I also have an original master of a... | |
| Wizard of Oz / Dark Side of the Moon I tried it and enjoyed it. It's amazing how many hits come up about it when you Google it. As far as PF's involvement, I would vote coincidence but as Snofun3 says, there are some interesting ones. | |
| It was 40 years ago today..... I did not know about the 40 yr anniverary of Sgt Pepper but something made me put on "Concert for Bangladesh". I admired George a lot. Now I gotta find the Pepper. Thanks. | |
| Looking for a summer time amp Check out Red Wine Audio. I have several SET amps and in the summer I have to deal with the A/C issue too. I bought their Sig 30 and am very happy with it. An added bonus is that it's battery powered. Over 20 hrs on a charge and it gets you off th... | |
| Where does a sellers responsibility stop? Rccc, I like that. To loosen, I guess it would have to go counter-counter clockwise, which seems a bit redundant. | |
| Tube amps and iPods Instead of thinking along the lines of tubes making something the Ipod isn't, you think of the value of using tubes as keeping the Ipod as close to what it is.I have an XM receiver that has a built in FM transmitter. I set it to broadcast to a cer... |