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| What to do with broken McIntosh Pre-Amp get a Music Reference RM-5, 3 tube preamp, they last forever | |
| Need Help! My Class A Amp Is Running Very Hot Get a KILLAWATT AC power measuring device for $20. It will tell you how many watts you are drawing. End of story. Its a very useful device, logs yoiur KWHr, time, voltage current, watts VA. I have 6 of them | |
| OTL amps, my pick for the tube used. The 633C initially became popular for its unusual shape and very low cost. Even in small quantities they could be had for $13 including socket. Very unusual to sell a tube with a socket. They actually recommenced replacing the socket with each tub... | |
| How much does volume matter when breaking in amps and cables? @kalali Roger, I’m honestly curios, don’t you think there’s been improvements in the way electrical components are made since the 50’s? People’s hearing could have been better but that’s also open to debate at another time. A Marantz Model 8B of... | |
| How much does volume matter when breaking in amps and cables? If black holes were real why weren’t they discovered in the 1950’s?If gravity waves were real why weren’t they discovered in the 1950’s? I don’t think these analogies are at all apt to the situation. Audiophiles were dedicated listeners in the 19... | |
| How much does volume matter when breaking in amps and cables? Break in explained! Not for the squeamish.From Alan Kafton’s web site for his Cable Cooker,Cable break-in occurs as current flows through the conductors of wiring components. Dielectric stress from voltage differences between conductors also con... | |
| How much does volume matter when breaking in amps and cables? @mijostin millercarbon there is a huge difference between mechanical devices and electronic devices. Undoubtedly, electronic equipment drifts slowly overtime as some component values shift with recurrent heat cycles although I have never seen o... | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. Tell that to owners of the Fairchild compressors like the model 670!! It uses a light bulb as part of its compression scheme. You already know how light the wire is in a voice coil. That it could heat up quickly enough to actually compress a tra... | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. The OPs numbers are all made up with assumptions I would not make in a NY minuite. He has done no measurements, its all conjecture. Here is a guy who has done his homework and made some measurements. Not to say that voice coil heating isnt real, b... | |
| RIAA, Questions only please @imhififan Thank you very muchAbout the most complete article I have read so far that at least makes majority of sense and is somewhat easier to understand for the layman imho.Still living and learning. Im still learning too. That's the most re... | |
| RIAA, Questions only please @imhififan http://hifisonix.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Disc-Recording-Equalization-Demystified.pd...Thanks for sharing this. We need more of you finding articles of quality. As you can see the author found the subject difficult too... | |
| RIAA, Questions only please @johnss with all the discussion on the RIAA curve, would suggest real vinyl philes consider the following; test your LP playback set up and see if the playback response is flat according to the RIAA spectheres more to this . Thanks for the write... | |
| RIAA, Questions only please @rauliruegas Please also refer to the graph near the top of Mr. Galo’s excellent article called Figure 1; http://www.smartdev.com/RIAA.htmlIt refers to this graph as the “typical” RIAA response; in reality, it is far from the “ideal” response th... | |
| RIAA, Questions only please @rauliruegas @ramtubes : What is the purpose or your target on both OP's threads?I'm asking because today 99.90% of all cartridges we audiophiles own are magnetic ones and the 99.95% of all the phono stages we own or are manufactured comes with ... | |
| RIAA, Questions only please @cto517 On a thread like this I am looking to learn. FWIW - I find the available online documentation for RIAA inconsistent, confusing, misleading, incorrect data .. no wonder, imo, it is difficult to grasp when we have experts like yourself cont... |