raquel
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| VAC 30/30 & Sophia 6SN7's At least on the VAC Renaissance 70/70, the outer sockets are for the driver tubes, which must be the higher voltage GTA/GTB spec 6SN7's (450 volts vs. 300 volts for standard 6SN7's), while the two inner sockets are for the splitter tubes, which ne... | |
| six year old 6sn7's, pushing my luck? Dearing is correct about the care of small-signal tubes - provided they are not run in a circuit at near maximum voltage, which exposes them to a lot of heat, they will generally last longer than they would if you turn the unit on and off.That sai... | |
| From Thiel CS6 to Wilson Sophia 2 or 3 I've owned time and phase-coherent speakers, as well as speakers that use higher order crossovers. While I believe there is truth to both sides of these arguments, I am sensitive to phase shift and have found that first-order crossover speakers co... | |
| revel Salon 2 seating distance Generally, nearfield listening (8 ft.) is preferable with speakers because it minimizes the deleterious effects of room reflections. This is somewhat less important with Salons due to their sophisticated power response, but still important. I know... | |
| Servicing amplifiers from very small companies? If a tech has a schematic and replacement parts are available, it can generally be fixed.Swampwalker is correct - tube gear is generally easier, and it's important to point out that when you retube a piece of tube gear, you largely have a new piec... | |
| Hi Fi Dealers in NYC - where to find them? Lyric, Innovative Audio, and Stereo Exchange are all well established dealers. I think Park Avenue Audio may still be around, too, but it's somewhat more of a mid-fi store.The stored referred to in Schipo's post is Lyric - they can sometimes be fi... | |
| Balanced connection from pre-amp to amp--Need help I shouldn't have used "Asian standard" as a term of art, because it isn't a term of art. I meant to say the XLR PIN configuration that is common in Asia, which I understand to be PIN #1 ground, PIN #2 negative, PIN #3 positive. | |
| Balanced connection from pre-amp to amp--Need help Rowland uses the Asian standard as well. | |
| Cary slp-05 tubes rumor or fact? I'm curious as to why you are so anxious to try new production 6SN7's given that the 6SN7 is one of the few tubes for which there are still tons and tons of excellent new-old-stock available at reasonable prices. The better production out of Shugu... | |
| Solid state warm up? It's not fully correct to say that tubes are not sensitive to temperature - generally speaking, they wear out more quickly when run at higher voltages (and thus higher operating temperatures). I presume you were referring to their operating parame... | |
| Magico V2 / Dynaudio C4 The Dynaudio is a large, almost full-range speaker that can play very loudly and handle big orchestral music. It requires a large room.The Magico is appropriate for medium to small-sized rooms and has limited loudness compared to the Dynaudio (it ... | |
| Solid state warm up? There are two issues here: 1) whether you would eliminate the "mushy" sound by increasing the amount of warm-up of your solid-state gear, and 2) whether your BAT amp has enough power to properly drive your Dynaudios.Starting with the second questi... | |
| Svetlana KT-88 KT-88's are relatively difficult to manufacture and there are a lot of mediocre to bad ones being sold - people with amps that use them must be very careful. E.A.T. makes high quality KT-88's, but they are expensive (the list price for an octet wa... | |
| Can anyone recommend a better rectifier tube? Some tubes in power supplies handle a lot of voltage relative to their maximum voltage. As such, they will wear out relatively quickly. If I were you, I would ask Jadis what voltage that tube is exposed to in the power supply. If it is close to th... | |
| ARC Ref 210 or Ayre MXR with Wilson Maxx2 A variety of XLR to single-ended adapters, and vice-versa, are manufactured by Neutrix. They are not expensive. Whether they will work well with these components is unknown to me. |