porchlight1
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| 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... | |
| Change EL84 tubes on Eico HF 81 Vintage tube amplifiers like your Eico (and Heathkits, Scott’s, Fisher’s, GE’s, Bogen, etc. too) were designed to operate on a line voltage lower (typically 115-117 VAC) than you likely have in your home. The EL84s were originally run at their abs... | |
| SVS SUB BETTER WITH LOW PASS FILTER OFF Curious: Does the 80Hz subwoofer setting on your amp also have a high pass on the mains; ie cutting off the bass to your LaScala’s below 80Hz? | |
| Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative” There’s a Luxman L-590AxII available on Audiogon right now in your price range. Last of the big Class A Luxman integrated amps. Class A up to 30 WPC into 8 ohms and 60 WPC into 4 ohms. It moves into Class AB doing 95 WPC into 8 and 165 WPC into 4... | |
| Doozy of an amp question Nobody mentioned Accuphase?? | |
| My All Time Christmas Song Christmas music “expert” here! Retired choir director and audiophile have to disparate recommendations: Christmas Cocktails Vol.1 and Vol.2. A scream! Two disc compilations of Capital Records best. Gotta hear Les Brown and his Band of Renown’s ... | |
| Added a Schiit Freya+ to a Sansui 8080 rar1: Did you enjoy your EPI 100’s? I held onto mine for 20 years through high school and college (hung onto Dynaco Stereo 70/ PAS3X Thorens TD121/Grace707) until I replaced them with Martin-Logan CLS’s in the 90’s. Linear the EPI’s weren’t, wi... | |
| How to restart tube amp and pre in boxes for 2yrs It’s always a good idea to use a Kill-A-Watt energy monitor (available on eBay or Amazon for $20-$30) in series with the Variac to monitor the current draw of the amp as the voltage is slowly brought up. If everything seems fine at first, I alway... | |
| Replacement for NE5532 opamp in preamplifier ? Wow! You have a Sony TA-E80ES too? I love mine! Bought it new in 1990 along with the matching tuner, CD and cassette deck. The pre and tuner I couldn’t bear to part with. Right off I did change the audio coupling caps; just 4, 2 on the phono b... | |
| Mesa Engineering Baron vacuum tube power amplifier jasonbourne71: You should see the review the long departed and deeply missed Audio magazine gave to it in their December 1996 issue. I saved that issue for some reason… cleeds: Their second effort was an amp called the Tigris. It was based on... | |
| An audio component you just can't let go Sony TA-E80ES preamp from 1990. Class A solid state. More inputs and outputs than I thought possible (3 tape loops!) including balanced. Stellar MC phono stage, quietest I’ve ever experienced with a LOMC. Maybe it’s the double cascaded power sup... | |
| McIntosh MC-2301 Tube Replacements All McIntosh tube power amplifiers use the Unity Coupled output circuit (a great description can be found in Bruce Rozenblit’s book “Tube Audio Design”). This inventive and effective circuit is able to run the output tubes conservatively, giving ... | |
| Schiit Lokius 6 band equalizer - in use observations Those curves for the Lokius are indeed on the Schiit website. Got to the Lokius page, click “specs”, and, at the bottom of that page click “APx Report for Lokius”. Scroll WAAAY down. Bingo! BTW That darn LED lit up my room 😖. So, using a paper h... | |
| Ideas for low cost amplifiers with gain control I second the used 50 lb AVR idea. A friend has an older upper-lineYamaha AVR from the Adventage series with the bi-amp option where he drives big Martin Logan electrostatic loudspeakers (Quests), a demanding load. And it sounds really good! |