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| Beginners guide to tube audiio. The above mentioned books are excellent reads. If you are lloking for something lighter: This book- (http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Complete-Guide-to-High-End-Audio_W0QQitemZ280332119531QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Nonfiction_Book?hash=item280332119531&_trk... | |
| My Woofer Sounds Like a Tweeter Just use a couple wires and a battery(ie: AA, C, D, or 9V), briefly touching the woofer terminals. You can do the same test with a multimeter, set to "ohms". The speaker should either push out, or pull in, depending on the polarity of the hook up.... | |
| What tubes for ST-70 Circuit topography hasn't changed much at all and the ST-70's came with excellent output transformers too(very important). The major differences in sound that can be appreciated with later designs comes from the improvements in passive components.... | |
| Single most effective electronic room treatment? I'd been an active bi-amping, straight-wire-with-gain guy for over 30 years, and was about nothing, if not transparency(I listen to live acoustic music every week, at least twice per). Colorations iritate me, no end. I'm now a devout TacT RCS 2.2X... | |
| Dahlquist LP-1 Passive/Active crossover The WBT-0234s were what I installed to replace the cheesy, original RCAs in my DQLP-1: (http://www.wbt.de/index.php?id=73&backPID=73&tt_products=59) | |
| LAST record preservative "I also won't spend any time dicussing this"- OH? =8^) | |
| How two 6550 tubes compare For quite a few years, I had no problems affording NOS power tubes, from the 50's and 60's. I had been using eight Phillips ECG 6550s in my current Cary amps. About 4 years ago, when they got weak, I was looking for either more Phillips or some GE... | |
| Help Understanding Bi-Wiring... Try these for some insights/instruction:(http://www.soundstage.com/synergize/synergize031998.htm) (http://www.davidmannaudio.com/faq/faq3.html) | |
| LAST record preservative The first thing that occured to me was what Marty T posted. I've been using LAST since 1980, and never sensed a loss of anything but noise/grain(a parallel to Mofi's experience). My systems have always been very resolving, BTW. The creator of the ... | |
| What tubes for ST-70 I don't think you will be disappointed! =8^) | |
| Dahlquist LP-1 Passive/Active crossover Bbro- You'll have much cleaner sound if you find either(new) polypropylene or polystyrene caps for the hi pass filters. If you need impedence matching resistors: use Vishay bulk foil. I got mine from Michael Percy. WBT makes some really nice RCA j... | |
| Dahlquist LP-1 Passive/Active crossover I used a DQLP-1 between 1981(started with my Acoustat Model 3's), until 2005(with a wide variety of planars, mostly Maggies). I never found a more transparent unit(many mods over the years), until the TacT RCS 2.2X came along. If you don't have th... | |
| Blown fuse and its soldering to a PCB If you can't locate a pigtail type fuse: Find a plastic inline fuse holder, ie:(http://cgi.ebay.com/FUSEHOLDER-INLINE-FUSE-HOLDER-WITH-14Ga-WIRE_W0QQitemZ270366963842QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item270366963842&_trksid=p3286.c0.... | |
| What tubes for ST-70 If you purchase your output tubes from Kevin Deal: you'll never have to worry about getting "stuck", in ANY sense of the word. He's first class, all the way: (http://www.upscaleaudio.com/view_category.asp?cat=86) | |
| What tubes for ST-70 You WILL hear a difference by replacing the GZ34/5AR4 w/a Mullard 5AR4(unless there's already one in the unit). Any improvements in the power supply will be very audible. Sylvania and Phillips ECG 7199's are the two cleanest(least colored) brands ... |