porchlight1
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| Which amplifier Here’s a reviewer, one of the very few in whose ears I trust, that actually reviewed the amplifier, the class A Luxman L-550AxII, with a pair of modern Cornwalls. https://youtu.be/t_bVWoMlfR4?si=ua_Dm0uLsbcwcSk8 FWIW Happy Easter! | |
| Aleph 3 safe to operate? From the owners manual of the Aleph 3, easily found on line: “the turn-on AC draw will peak (half-cycle) at roughly 50 amps on a 120 volt system”. Also: “The amp will draw 250 watts from the wall at all times” And: “In fifteen years the electr... | |
| SUT Interconnects WBC (Worlds Best Cables) offers a line of low capacitance cables called PRO LO-CAP in a variety of lengths from .5 foot up to 100 foot. Capacitance is rated at 14pf per foot, 46.5pF per meter; 99.99% OFC 22 gauge center conductor; 99.99% OFC 97% s... | |
| Considering a New Tube Pre-amp Ever consider the Luxman CL-38uC? All tube (8), remote (volume and mute only), balanced input, tape loop, switchable tone (with 3 turnover settings each), balance, mono switch and very low output impedance. It does have an excellent MM/MC (with ... | |
| Krell KST 100 amplifiers I had a Krell KST 100 for over 20 years driving a number of different Martin-Logan electrostatics (I worked for a dealer that carried both) including Sequel II, Quest, Quest Z, ReQuest (my favorite), SL3, Aerius i, Aeon, and the notorious CLS. The... | |
| Do vacuum tube test values reflect sound quality? How a tube sounds in any given amplifier, especially a preamp level tube, highly depends on how much local feedback is used on the tube in that specific circuit. Generally, high gain stages, like the first stage of a phono preamp, use little if an... | |
| Stereo mode in phone stage going out Considering what you indicated in your last post, I suspect it is a dirty, intermittent contact in the source selector rotary switch. The only thing that has been moved is the selector when you changed from your previous input to phono. Those ro... | |
| Speakers sound too bright. Ignore the app. Make sure the amp’s positive (red) terminal is connected to the speaker’s positive terminal and the amp’s negative (black) terminal to the speaker’s negative terminal. On both speakers. If one speaker was connected backwards, the b... | |
| Iphone -> Audioquest Dragonfly Red -> Hifiman Ananda Maybe try an iFi HipDac 3. Fully balanced, and it has its own battery so your phone won’t be hollering !uncle! Decodes everything (PCM 24/384, native DSD, MQA) right from your phone with the included cord. Burr Brown chipset. USB-C. Plays nice w... | |
| Unipivot tone arms dynacohum: One of those Keith Monks mercury-dampened arms came with a vintage Thorens TD124 I bought. Scared the heck out of me, though I appreciated the inventiveness of the design. I called the city and a guy came out in a hazmat suit with a s... | |
| A little puzzled by my newly acquired Yamaha A-S801 Your Yamaha A-S801 has both tone controls and a variable loudness function. If the sound you hear is too “light”, experimenting with those controls - using a “light” touch - will most certainly remedy your problem. A 1-2 dB increase in bass is al... | |
| Would like to get more bass out of my B&W 801 series 2 speakers Lots of experience with that generation of B&W 801. My friend still runs a set driven by a pair of bridged GFA555s. When I hear them I remember why that was a speaker that always sounded right to me, even today. I did have to rebuild both hi... | |
| Replace tubes yearly? I second the recommendation for the early Sylvania 6SN7 tubes. Specifically the ones with the triangular plates. Hilarious, normb. When I worked in a high-end audio emporium back in the late eighties/early nineties I used Aerial Boundaries as my... | |
| Trends in value of vintage / used audio equipment? Meters? Ok… But if it has an oscilloscope in it, ay yi yi! 🤑 | |
| BEST SPEAKER THAT COMES TO LIFE AT LOW LISTENING LEVELS I’m not sure you can do better for low volume listening, as electrostatic speakers are known for their resolution at low levels (mainly due to the lack of mechanical hysteresis - getting that heavy cone up and running - in dynamic drivers) and you... |