puffball08
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| Say a fella wants to build an SET monoblock based on the 300B.. O.P., since you mention you're planning on building your speakers, are you inclined to scratch build your amplifier?If so, consider this (scroll to page 22): http://www.jumpjet.info/Pioneering-Wireless/eMagazines/VTV/VTV05.pdf Eric Barbour's SV81... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? A long gap between posting yet again. Terry Fox "Linkage"His Name Is Alive "Hope Is A Candle"Plus a few 7"-Minutemen "The Burning Brothel" split with Saccharine Trust "My Heart Bleeck Pink Lemonade"Rocket From The Tombs "I Sell Soul"Jack Brewer &... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear @audioguy85-nice to see Lydia Lunch's name come up. But to really appreciate her work, get the next release (if you don't already have it) "13.13". Not for the casual listener by a long shot. She collaborated with many artists over the years, s... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear Haven't seen any shoegaze yet. Boards of Canada "The Campfire Headphase" (vinyl preferable to CD)My Bloody Valentine "m b v" (12" came with the CD)Flying Saucer Attack "Distance" (2017 remastered vinyl is superb)And something not related,Beth... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear What a great thread. Where else would we find such gems as "Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions..." by Harry Partch? (the king of non-12TET)Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t see any Fred Frith yet.My pick:Espers "S/T" | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Cabaret Voltaire "Shadow Of Fear"Roy Montgomery "324 E. 13th Street #7" Slap Happy/Henry Cow "Desperate Straights" V.A. "Southeast of Saturn" (Michigan Shoegaze/Dream Pop/Space Rock) Merry Christmas everyone. Hopefully Santa Claus will deliver ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @haflerdimwit Wow! Indeed. Amazing to see a Hafler DH-101 mentioned. That was my first preamp 40+ years ago driving a Bryston 2B amplifier into Spendor BC1s. It was replaced with a DH-110 which still resides in my secondary system. For readers una... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw Congratulations Steve on the Vinyl Press review.After a listening gap because of family matters, I managed a bit of listening.Flaming Tunes- s/tPeter Jeffries- “Last Ticket Home”David Nance- “ More Than Enough”Robert Fripp- “Exposure” (rema... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Turntable was away for an upgrade. Now back and spinning,Roy Montgomery “Tropic of Anodyne” (Record “R” in the series)Autechre “Sign”Beabadoobee “Fake It Flowers” | |
| Upgrade capacitors in tube amplifier? For your coupling capacitors (particularly the 0.33mfd), and importantly, if you physically have the room, consider either Jupiter Copper Foil Paper & Wax or Miflex KPCU-01. The Jupiters are a bit more expensive but you won’t go wrong with eit... | |
| Your most indispensable "tweak"? My tweaks involve a soldering iron and only the amplifier.1. Replace the Schottky rectifiers in my amplifier's power supply with SiC rectifiers.2. Replace the Mundorf interstage capacitors with Jupiter copper foil caps.3. Replace the volume "poten... | |
| SET amps This is a bit over your budget target but certainly worthy of consideration. The kit comes with Lundahl output transformers and Alps audio grade volume control. The kit might also come with Takman resistors and Mundorf coupling capacitors.https:... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? "And like @noromance says getting records in the mail is cool !!!"Yeah, my postal carrier is always intrigued by what records are lurking in those "No Hassle" cardboard shippers.I felt like spinning lots of 7" records tonight.Shellac "Uranus"Jac... | |
| Power Conditioners @atmasphere,You may find this interesting. This is Joseph Sola’s original patent from 1938 for a constant potential transformer, the forerunner of what Sola makes today.https://patents.google.com/patent/US2143745A/en | |
| Power Conditioners atmasphere- Your point about non-sinusoid output waveform and generated secondary harmonics are well taken.However, Sola mitigated this by adding an additional “neutralizer” winding in the secondary. The following document contains a description ... |