paulcreed
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| Can a tube short without blowing? I had a Mullard xf2 with maybe 1000 hours glow bright red and left channel went out. Opened amp up it was a blown fuse. Did not have extra fuses so called Conrad Johnson to order some. What shocked me was CJ told me to put the same tube back in... | |
| Help with Cary SLP-98 I have some 6sn7 socket savers but they all seem like not the greatest quality. Garage 1217 makes some very nice quality tube adapters, ceramic and gold plated pins. Not sure if they have socket savers. I had their 6sn7 and 6922 adapters for a MHD... | |
| Preamp has too much gain I had a preamp with a Goldpoint stepped volume pot with too much gain and installed Takman resistors on the pot and fixed the problem. | |
| Any love for the Gentalex Gold Lion 12ax7 gold pin? I’ve spent some time with the GL gold pins now. Why when something is new it is exciting to listen to only to discover with time and comparing back to back to well regarded vintage tubes it is lacking. The GL is not a bad tube but compared to Tele... | |
| Budget preamp recommendation...besides Schiit. Dehavilland Ultraverve, 6sn7 preamp if you can find one. | |
| joule la150mkII- preamp If you still need help cal Rich at Signature Sound he has taken over the Joule line. Real nice guy he will be glad to help you out, he’s very familiar with your amp. | |
| Any love for the Gentalex Gold Lion 12ax7 gold pin? After spending a couple days with the Gold Lion started noticing soundstage was more focused in the center. Put RCA’s in and soundstage went beyond speaker boundaries and that’s no warm up, maybe I posted to soon. I still like them but better than... | |
| Any love for the Gentalex Gold Lion 12ax7 gold pin? The 6922’s GL gold pin can’t pull them out fast enough. I like them better than the Telefunken smooth plate but never was crazy about that tube anyway. | |
| Driver Tubes 6922 Tony I wouldn’t worry so much about it if the seller will replace a noisy or bad tube. Your going to get bad tubes it’s just going to happen. I’ve been buying most of my tubes used from the same brick and mortar tube store for the last 15 years w... | |
| Tube Integrated With Clarity Bryland, I have the Audio Hungary a50i. You should be able to pick one up under $4000 used. I owned a LTA preamp and thought it was very nice but would not call it as tubey as I tend to prefer. I also own some modern Conrad Johnson and prefer ... | |
| Best amplifier for low to moderate listening levels I have a CJ cav45 S2 60 watt and believe that is close to your amp. I had same problem. I had to turn the volume up to find the sweet spot on 6 ohm 87 db and 8 ohm 92 db speakers usually 11 or 12 o’clock on volume knob at those levels sounded grea... | |
| What DAC to buy? MHDT Orchid has to be considered, you can pick them up under $1000. I still miss that dac and the MHDT Havana, they were just enjoyable to listen too, and only one tube to roll, the 6sn7 adapter was nice, just a fun dac. | |
| What DAC to buy? Denafrips Ares or RME adi2, Ares has a little better soundstage but RME is on the warm side, very transparent and a Swiss Army knife dac. I borrowed the Ares from a friend and owned the RME for a while. Between the 2 I would have to go RME for lon... | |
| I'm going to buy my first tube amp. I need honest blunt opinions I haven’t read every post but the op decided not to buy an amp. He’s going to buy speakers. | |
| Conrad Johnson CAV45-S2 8 ohm? 4 ohm? Other? Sorry I was thinking Warnie7 was OP. OP you can open up amp and change ohms. I run 6 and 8 ohm speakers on 4 ohm tap and never felt a problem. I believe you need to know how to solder but don’t quote me on that. I was ready to solder mine but ne... |