rodman99999
Responses from rodman99999
| Can we objectively rate speaker cables? What Dave b said (X2)! | |
| Putting vintage tubes in the power supply of pre Some of the greatest sonic benefits in this hobby are achieved via power supply mods. ie: (http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1238465914&read&keyw&zzmullard+5ar4) That refers to the improvements in a power amp, in which ... | |
| Bad preamp choice? Yes- The CJ will be an upgrade from the Yamaha, and should you not immediately appreciate it's sound: you'll have the option of rolling it's tubes to better suit your tastes(especially if you listen to vinyl). The PV-10B had a few cap bypasses in ... | |
| Disconnect the woofer Are you the first owner of those Maggies? Perhaps someone modded the X-overs? If they are original, and you get no output, correctly hooked up/jumpers removed; something's amiss. | |
| SE 845 Triode versus KT88 Triode-Connected? Any tube amp's sound depends on a plethora of factors like transformer quality, capacitor construction(polypropylene/polystyrene/Teflon/tin, aluminum or silver foil/ paper in oil/etc), resistors used, power supply topography and quality, point to ... | |
| What is a typical life span of a stylus or cartrid Welcome back to analog and enjoy your vinyl collection! =8^) | |
| Jadis with Telefunken 12AX7/ECC83 tubes Mr M- Since you've brought up one of my favs(the Sylvania 6SN7W); I have to mention the three(really two) iterations of that tube, the shorter one of which I couldn't get out of my amps fast enough(no impact or depth, thin and strident). The tall ... | |
| Disconnect the woofer The 20.1 X-over's Hi-Pass section has 120.3uF of capacitance after the jumpers and before the signal is further split into MF/HF. If he's not removing the LF via an active x-over b4 the main amp, he's basically "passively bi-amping". Not the clean... | |
| Disconnect the woofer The 20.1 crossover is jumpered, and as long as you are removing the LF signal from the input, via an active x-over(with jumpers removed); you shouldn't have any issues. I'm, using a modded TacT 2.2X to actively bi-amp my Maggies, with tubes above ... | |
| New Production EL34 / 6CA7 Another vote for the =C=(SED St Petersberg plant) that Upscale Audio carrys (http://www.upscaleaudio.com/SED-Winged-C-EL-34_p_63.html). They sounded so nice in my old ST-70(tastefully modded), that when I could no longer find/afford NOS, matched o... | |
| How do you remove a tube Key? Find a long sheetmetal or wood screw, large enough to grip the inside of the locator's hole, partially screw it in(just enough to bite) and use it to pull the piece out. | |
| What is a typical life span of a stylus or cartrid You know Sky- I may have tossed too many curves by mentioning the Rega and VPI upgrades. I'm a tweek/upgrade freak, so that kind of stuff holds a lot of appeal for me. If you just compare the two Pro-ject tables; you'll probably find the Xpression... | |
| EL34s -- your picks for best? I've never tried Mundorfs. Lots of DynamiCaps, auriCAP and InfiniCAPs, always observing the outer foil to the lower impedence rule. I'm tempted to try the aura Ts as coupling caps in my Cary monoblocks. I've got a lot of silver cabling, anything b... | |
| What is a typical life span of a stylus or cartrid Pro-ject doesn't sell upgrades for their tables(that I'm aware of), outside of a record clamp. Rega and VPI(for instance) sell arm/counterweight & wiring, motor & power supply, suspension, platter, record clamp and weight upgrades. VPI off... | |
| Disconnect the woofer All that's why I replaced my modded Dahlquist DQ-LP1, with a modded TacT RCS 2.2X, after 23 years. It was Linkwitz's writings, in the early eighties, that got me started bi-amping at home. I'd been doing it for years before that, in live venues, b... |