paulgardner
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| How to identify my weakest link? Thanks for all the great feedback everyone. @big_greg thanks for the cart breakdowns. Yeah it does make me a bit nervous purchasing a $3k cart on the grey market and I have heard about some of the Kiseki quality issues. Hmmm. I’ll check out the G... | |
| How to identify my weakest link? @tomic601 is that a Herron with a custom wood faceplate?! Looks pretty great! I really dig those wood isolation platform with the live edge too. Nice! I wish it was easier to post pics here 😐 | |
| How to identify my weakest link? @millercarbon Thanks for all the info and ideas! I’ll dig in for sure! You hooked me up with the Nobsound springs idea awhile back and as skeptical as I was, I was proven very wrong. Huge improvement. I’ll will look at upgrading to pods at some ... | |
| How to identify my weakest link? Thanks for the responses. @millercarbon I forgot to mention that I do have Nobsound springs under my speakers and have built a pretty nice isolation platform for the TT with recessed Nobsound springs sandwiched between some butcher block. Wrapp... | |
| I'm a Dummy, Tell Me About Turntable Mats I purchased a Clearaudio Ovation on the used market. The platter had some minor cosmetic damage so I purchased the Oracle mat which has has an adhesive to place over the Ovation platter instead of purchasing a new Ovation platter (3x the Oracle pr... | |
| Channel Imbalance Mystery @mijostyn it’s not room acoustics. There was a time when I had beautiful channel balance in this same room with the same system. It’s gotta be the tubes or something else. | |
| Channel Imbalance Mystery @tomic601 my knowledge and understanding of this stuff is very limited. What is a stereo triode?! And yes, Keith has been very helpful and he seems like a great guy. | |
| Channel Imbalance Mystery @mglik thats what I like to hear! I sure hope I get that same results when my replacement 12AT7s arrive. I purchased this preamp used a couple years ago and have only changed a couple of the 5 tubes so who knows how old those AT7 signal tubes are?... | |
| Channel Imbalance Mystery @oldhvymec fixed is not the correct word. I would say the imbalance is better but not perfect when I swap the phono RCAs into the Herron then swap the RCA outputs. I called Keith Herron and he thought the same thing as you. Poor connection or bad ... | |
| Channel Imbalance Mystery @russ69 ok I changed the 12AU7 and 12AX7s in the integrated back to the JJ tubes that came stock with the amp from some Gold Lions and no change. I guess it must be the tubes in the Herron preamp then. I just replaced the 2 12AX7s in the Herron a ... | |
| Channel Imbalance Mystery @ghdprentice yeah I hear ya. Thanks. | |
| I think I screwed up 😬☹️ @mijostyn I brought it to my local dealer and they’re sending it to Musical Surroundings for repair. No tunes for awhile I guess 😐 Thanks for the reply!Paul | |
| New power tubes lacking low end and slam Thanks everyone! Appreciate the ideas/thoughts. | |
| New power tubes lacking low end and slam @daveyf what are driver tube? I was only aware of power tubes and signal tubes. | |
| New power tubes lacking low end and slam @millercarbon Same Tung-Sol KT120’s |