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| 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! | |
| Microphone recommendation for recording 2 channel demos The Sony PCM-D10 is an awesome portable recorder with excellent built-in microphones. Also great for digitizing vinyl up to 24/192. Built like a tank. And right within your budget. I use mine to record live concerts and recitals, sometimes usin... | |
| The Allure of Vintage Audio Gear perkri: Glad to hear you’re going to delve into a pair of Heathkit UA-1’s. I’ve restored a few of these along with Heathkit EL84 integrateds which use essentially the same circuit. Some things I learned: Use the schematic to the UA-2; minor but ... | |
| Integrated Amps I would be wary of purchasing any integrated amplifier with a built in DAC. As enticing as that may sound, in most cases the built in DAC is inferior to even an inexpensive stand alone one. More importantly, the resale value of the amp will plumm... | |
| Truly Stunning Vinyl Album larryi: Classic put out a 45 rpm 12” single with “Ain’t Got Nobody” and “St. James Infirmary” from “Satchmo Plays King Oliver”. As good as the full LP re-release is, nothing beats 45 rpm and really big grooves 👍 | |
| MC 275 tube amps with what speakers ? For over 20 years I ran a pair of Mac MC 275 Gordon Gow Commemorative Edition amps strapped in mono into a pair of Martin-Logan Quests, a hybrid electrostatic with a 48” x 18” ‘stat panel and a 12” woofer in a sealed enclosure. Room was 16’ x 22’... |