perkri
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| Maybe this is the winter you build something! Winter will be a busy one. I have 3 Lencos Im going to be building heavy plinths for that involve a rather elaborate damping system an some significant mods to the TT’s. Was just given an Ariston RD11S that I’m going to restore for fun. Have al... | |
| Tuner - FM over the air - suggestions Magnum Dynalab. Used mine every day for the past 30 years. Very musical component. And get one of their ST-2 antennas, regardless of which tuner you get. Enjoy! | |
| 1st full tube amp Oldchen EL34 Good call on the internal mods :) After seeing how the amp survived my friends rather “careless” treatment of the amp, I wouldn’t worry too much :) Oh, and he kept it in a confined space in an entertainment unit. Got really toasty in there! Liv... | |
| SME 3009 S2 Improved Tonearm problem...possibly Hey I have an SME Series II Improved with the fixed headshell If set up properly, it is an amazing tonearm! I stripped mine down to the last screw, cleaned, rewired and put it back together. (There are parts in the service manual where they s... | |
| 1st full tube amp Oldchen EL34 And as others have stated above. Tube amps are high voltage devices, and can "hurt" (yes, speaking from experience...) Only ever put one hand in the chassis at a time, unless you have discharged the caps and it is unplugged. I got a rather un... | |
| 1st full tube amp Oldchen EL34 Hey. First off, ignore @jasonbourne52 I have some first hand experience with the same amp! A friend purchased one a few years back - he wanted an inexpensive tube amp - liked the look of glowing tubes. We did some research and he ended up getti... | |
| Does dose anyone see these speakers in real? Trying to remember where I saw these? Read an article about them. Someone had “bought” them, but didn’t pay for them. I think they were either in a tower in Manhattan, or at some private club in Florida somewhere. Strange thing is, they were pract... | |
| What do the arrows mean on my cable? Could be grounding protocol. When I have shielded wires - I’ve started making my own interconnects - I ground the shield to the source. Most manufacturers will have arrows on wires. If not, I use the writing on the wires as “arrows” having the s... | |
| tube pre & ss amp integrated I’ve been working on a Class A SS amp. Plan is to add a tube front end to it in the same chassis. Like the idea of a really good one box solution, and have been wanting to have a hybrid integrated. The Croft Phono Integrated has been on my... | |
| Basic question about power/watts Power (watts) = Voltage X Current A 200hp motorcycle is fast A 200hp tractor is strong Current amps are strong Voltage amps are fast (over simplification, I know…) The circuit design, type of amp (SS or tube) and class of the amp (A, A/B or ... | |
| Added an SUT...not sure I understood this @rauliruegas Just finished building a Hiraga Super 30 watt Class A amp 500VA transformer, followed by 192KuF of capacitance in the power supply Toroidal transformer hums on start up, had to instal a Hypex Soft Start board so as to manage th... | |
| Added an SUT...not sure I understood this Seems to me, you have DC in the signal. DC will not pass through the transformer(s), which is why the hum is going away | |
| Storage of other speakers in the room, shorting them while not in use? Myth or true? Connect electricity to a motor, it spins Spin a motor, it becomes a generator and produces electricity Put a load on the generator, it makes it difficult to spin A speaker is a motor Short the terminals, makes it difficult for the cone to move... | |
| Time to upgrade the pre-amp. I've been very interested in the AR preamps as well. I'm curious, what parts in the older reference models are of concern as far as potentially not being available? | |
| Tube PHONO preamp interference - RFI, EMI, bad grounding? Thanks for letting me know what model. Was wondering about provisions for a MC cart. Asking to see what else is inside the box that might be picking up the signal? And the unit is solid state rectified, all three tubes are used in the signal p... |