rodman99999
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| Honesty is How This Tube Dealer Built His eBay Business My last octet of NOS GE 6550As came from TC Tubes. When one finally went South(after a couple years), they managed to find one, in their inventory of too-weak-to-sell-NOS, that matched my seven well-worn, and gave it to me. Didn't even charge m... | |
| Small or big tubes/valves for pre amp ? @grey9hound - I’ve been using 1940s, Tung-Sol(round plate/JAN CTL/VT-231) and Sylvania (6SN7W/JAN CHS/tall bottle/metal base) tubes, in my monoblocks for a couple decades(one each per amp). I’ve kept a stash of bottom-gettered, 1940s, Ken-Rads and... | |
| What responsibility does a seller have to tell a customer an item has been serviced? If I have any reservations regarding the condition or past service of an item of interest: it's incumbent on ME to ASK, before I BUY. Honest answers are the seller's responsibility. | |
| Honesty is How This Tube Dealer Built His eBay Business Here are two eBay sellers, that I’ve dealt with repeatedly, over the years, and found honest, reliable and very accurate in their testing methods: angst46 and audiotubes_de | |
| The Presslift I’m guessing, all those keystrokes were about lifting an arm, when a record ends. My first Safety Raiser(AT6006) lasted 30+ years, before it began lifting too quickly. That’s a lot of years, in which I enjoyed end-of-record-peace-of-mind, via it’s... | |
| Selling Tubes. These guys offer testing, for a price(of course): http://tctubes.com/tube-testing-service.aspx They’re honest and dependable(from personal experience). | |
| Bi-amping with integrated To actively bi-amp an integrated, requires being able to separate the preamp from the power amp, and installing an active crossover between. The Cronus doesn’t have a Pre-Out/Main-In facility. It does have a variable output(could be used for a woo... | |
| Speaker hum With speakers that efficient and an amp with a ton of gain, you’re likely hear the slightest hint of residual noise, coming from anywhere in your system. Why did you mate speakers that sensitive, with an Odyssey Stratos amp? | |
| unison 845 set driving maggie 1.7? Nice integrated, but not for 1.7 Maggies. They just won’t open up and present the realism they’re known for, without the right amount of juice. | |
| Need help solving a system problem That the IEC switch makes no difference, is really puzzling. Given that the woofers are(I'm assuming) pumping with it engaged, their excursions should increase markedly with it off. Are we talking about an audible, "rumble", or subsonic excursio... | |
| Need help solving a system problem Just curious: At what level do you have the Bass Control set, on your Logans and- does your phono stage's IEC button, make any difference when engaged? | |
| Any advice on buying quality vinyl "I think it is impossible to generalize." +1(a plethora of variables) | |
| Need help solving a system problem That reviewer may have had a subsonic filter(many phono stages do), speakers without very low extension, a room with differing Sabine coefficients, etc. They don’t mention anything, regarding their reference system. It would be simple, to experime... | |
| Need help solving a system problem Is your’s a Purpleheart or a Purpleheart Sapphire? Their compliances differ, dramatically. https://www.vinylengine.com/cartridge_database.php?m=Kiseki&mod=Purple&t=any&sort=2&...= Given the effective mass(16.5 Gr) of your arm, weig... | |
| Ancient Ohms As long as their surrounds aren't torn, you could probably hurt your ears first, with anything over 35 WPC, unless you have a rather large room and enjoy high SPLs. Virtually any vintage tube amp, will have 16 Ohm taps and as easy time driving th... |