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| New TT ideas please If you like some eye candy you should consider an Oracle Delphi. If a turntable can get you laid, this would be the one.It is a local (if you can call Canada local) company and you do get timely responses and support. Some of the other companies m... | |
| VTL ST-85 vs. VTL ST-150 or rather EL34 vs 6550 Jc51373, In line with what Dennis posted. Youll find that brands like VTL, Cary, Manley, etc all have a house sound. A VTL sounds different from a Cary, no matter which tubes you use.The reason for this is that the actual sound produced is all ... | |
| new to tubes +++ The 84's are usually transferable with 6550's and KT 88's +++Not sure how a KT88 or 6550 will fit into an EL84's socket or vice versa. The EL84 is a much smaller tube. They [KT88 & 6550] use identical tube sockets to EL34s, 6L6s etc and th... | |
| Why do headphones sound so good... They don't sound good - you are simply not used to real live music.Music can be felt as well as heard, especially the lower frequencies. With earphones music cannot be felt. Earphones usually lead to irreparable damage to hearing as the users turn... | |
| replacing solid state amps with tubes VTL Siegfried may fit the bill. | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option From the Teres website "Direct Coupling utilizes a large diameter pulley, an o-ring and gravity to directly couple the motor to the platter eliminating the degradations introduced by belts and idler wheels"How is this anything other than an idler ... | |
| Help me buy a magical pre-amp that doesn't exist +++ Please stop pushing your own products that in no way fit what I asked for help finding +++LOL, it is amazing everybody thinks the stuff they own is the best. Their stuff is most certainly not the best as the stuff I have happens to be the best... | |
| What are your thoughts on hybrid amplifiers? A hybrid amp is a very good idea if you enjoy tube sound, but have speakers that are not tube friendly. It falls very much in line with folks that use a vacuum tube pre amp and solid-state power amp.If you do have tube friendly speakers and you en... | |
| What do the different tube amp types mean? Hi BDChem, everybody posted some good info. Being vain, Ill post some more. ;-)Vacuums tubes used for audio reproduction can be triodes, tetrodes or pentodes. To make things a bit complex, tetrodes and pentodes can be wired to run in triode mode,... | |
| What do the different tube amp types mean? Hi Mlsstl. An ultralinear amp in not necessarily push-pull. I have seen a circuit diagram for an ultralinear single ended amp.An amp is ultralinear when the screen grid is biased from an center tap on the primary side of the output transformer. I ... | |
| Power: Good or Bad +++ Hey, Paul, who appointed you the arbiter of meaningful information here on Audiogon +++I did.+++ The SET amp threw a bigger soundstage, was more warm and full, and had a more ripe bass +++Yes, you're describing the coloration I mentioned in my... | |
| Power: Good or Bad Hi Pubul57I think the real Achilles heel for low powered single ended tube amps are (the lack of) appropriate speakers. Having been active on this BB (an a few others) for a few years now, it is very clear to me that the vast majority of listeners... | |
| Cartridge Break-in at High VTF? +++ Use normal tracking force & 45 RPM dance singles instead +++Reading that just brought up this image of Psychic in a bell bottomed leisure suit dancing to 'boogie wonderland' ... | |
| new to tubes Facten, while a lot of folks will speak out on sonic characteristics, you will find a big variance in sound between the same tubes of different manufacturer ... so much so that you cannot really ascribe a sonic character to any tube. This, coupled... | |
| Power: Good or Bad +++ I tried SET amps with my Wilson speakers and just didn't find that sense of dynamics ... +++Wilson's are known to be demanding to drive, and as such not SET friendly. Hardly an meaningful statement.+++ I think a great designer can design a gre... |