rfogel8
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| Clear Day Interconnects Rx8man, when you say doubling-up, do you mean buy a new pair from Paul, having him double the conductors? How else would you double them?As for the couple pairs I have, they sound very similar to his speaker cables; very open and transparent, exte... | |
| upgrading speaker crossovers The 100mf caps and most likely a large inductor, are used to cross over the 10" woofer to the midrange driver. Manufacturers are in business, first and foremost, to make money and that's why they use electrolytics. Specific values are chosen with ... | |
| Clear Day Interconnects I use an 8' run of his Double Shotgun speaker cable. It really is very good. The more strands, the better.For the interconnects I made, I used two strands of Paul's silver wire for each leg of each interconnect, 2 for each pos. & 2 for each ne... | |
| Clear Day Interconnects Several months ago, after reading many glowing comments about Paul's Clear Day cables, I bought a pair of his Dbl-Shotgun speaker cable for a second system and was thoroughly impressed. After break-in, I compared it to some rather pricey Siltech 7... | |
| I've narrowed it down... Hey, you haven't lived til you experience a catastrophic tube failure. In my experience, you simultaneously get loud crackling and spitting noises from your speakers as a light show appears from the offending amp. This is much better if the lights... | |
| Best current 845 Tubes Phil, Good stuff! | |
| Cary SLI-80 Thoughts? The Stingray probably is a nice little integrated but it only puts out 25watts triode/50 ultra-linear vs the Cary's 40/80 and... the Stingray is butt ugly! I couldn't get past it's looks. | |
| Cary SLI-80 Thoughts? My main system is all Atma-Sphere but I wanted a Cary integrated for a second system and I wanted the F-1 direct coupled, all-triode version; preferably with the cool blue chassis and silver face plate. Well, it took a while but the one I wanted f... | |
| Modwright sony xa5400 vs Modwright Oppo 95 Anonymoustao is absolutely right about Dave_b's comments. Every time he buys a new player, regardless of what it is, it's always better than anything he's owned previously. I think he's on his 4th player since I bought my Modwright 5400 a year ago... | |
| Modwright sony xa5400 vs Modwright Oppo 95 JWM and I did some tube rolling with his MW Oppo 95 a few days ago and at the end of the night, we agreed, the clear winner was the 1940s Tungsol black glass. Unfortunately, with prices reaching $500 pair, they're a bit of a luxury for most people... | |
| What's likely to happen when an 845 tube fails? Joe, what you say about varying ZETA is certainly true; Joel's been saying the same thing for a long time. That said, there's no substitute for good amplification, especially with speakers as revealing as the C's. In my mind, 1st order series is T... | |
| What's likely to happen when an 845 tube fails? Joe, I forgot to mention, "Charlesdad" brought over his 8 wpc 300B Coincident Frankenstein's a while back. He wanted to hear them in my system with my MP-1 and I was glad to oblige. Running only my sats(they're not really Fried's anymore so Joel a... | |
| What's likely to happen when an 845 tube fails? Joe, correct, the 845's will only power my sats, running full range. It's amazing how much cleaner and extended bass is since Joel and I switched to the ScanSpeak's. Bass duties still relegated to powered subs(blended in around 50Hz).I picked up a... | |
| What's likely to happen when an 845 tube fails? Phil, Thanks again for your excellent input. Many of the points you make, I've either heard or read before so I was already thinking along the same lines. All things being fairly equal, the extra power of an 845 seems preferable to the alternative... | |
| What's likely to happen when an 845 tube fails? Phil, now that's the kind of useful info I was looking for!!! Thanks for taking the time and being so thorough. Joe/Trelja, thanks too for your comments. You and I discussed the merits of the 845 a while back and I'm still dragging my feet. I know... |