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| Damsel in Distress with Jadis DPL As long as everything is still in balance between your channels, the bad tube didn't take anything with it. New production tubes go bad just as often as NOS tubes, and some defects are hard to find until the tube has full operational voltage appli... | |
| Cary SLP 03 Owners Tube Rolling Ideas Since your tastes(like mine) are toward the more open, transparent and accurate: I'll suggest the Siemens or Telefunken ECC802S as the ultimate for your application. If the cost of those is too salty: The Siemens CV491/ECC82 isn't a slouch either.... | |
| Cable elevators - conventional wisdom wrong? Read the section of this article that deals with wire and resonances: (http://www.soundstage.com/maxdb/maxdb011999.htm) To the lithocephalic: Don't bother! | |
| Siemens CCa vs. Amperex PW 6922 I wonder why no one has mentioned the Siemens E188CC/7308 as an alternative. The high end is just slightly relaxed(ala the PW), but the tube still retains the liquid/3D midrange of the CCa. A slightly more controlled bottom(but no loss of extensio... | |
| What to do with old Sterophile/Absolute Sound Mags They sell really well on eBay. List them a year at a time. | |
| Siemens CCa vs. Amperex 6922 D getter Enjoy your music Mr C!! | |
| Siemens CCa vs. Amperex 6922 D getter Mr T- You are correct about the "taste" factor. That's why I always preface my recommendation of the CCa with a note about their clarity and transparency, and mention the fact that some might prefer a "warmer" tube. Another possibilty is badly rec... | |
| Siemens CCa vs. Amperex 6922 D getter Siemens CCa's (pre 1968) are NOT the least bit strident, bright or glaring. Any system with a frequency imbalance/glare/sloppy bass/etc can make the very best tubes sound bad. That's just a fact of life. People that don't know any better will inst... | |
| Siemens CCa vs. Amperex 6922 D getter That will depend on your love for the truth. The Siemens CCa(earlier than 1968)will allow whatever is fed it to pass with less added or subtracted(more transparently) than anything else out there. That is it's intrinsic value to me. Everyone doesn... | |
| What is the best SS used amp for $1k or less? Maybe it's the time of night, but those URLs aren't working now. Trying again: (http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstran&1222437026) | |
| What is the best SS used amp for $1k or less? Sometimes you can find a Hafler TransNova 9505(255WPC/8ohms) in here for that. There's one listed right now, but the guy wants too much for it. The 9303 shares the same circuitry and puts out 150WPC into 8ohms, for less $$ of course. Very controll... | |
| Behringer DEQ2496: Connection Options Mr. J- If you are intent on placing the Behringer in your signal path: At least buy some Mogami 'Gold Neglex' cabling(if not something better/audio specific). You mentioned "standard XLRs", so- I'm assuming you plan to run balanced. (http://www.mu... | |
| Good quality cd's What genre of music are you most fond of? Perhaps I(or others) can make some suggestions. There are labels that consistantly put out quality CDs in just about all of them(Rap and Punk may be exceptions-No loss). I buy a lot of discs from these guy... | |
| Directional interconnect cables The experiment, performed with new(0 hrs) cables/interconnects, would be valid. Not hard to figure out. My theory concerning the chevron structure affecting the positive(compression generating) portion of the signal if a cable is reversed is based... | |
| Directional interconnect cables Mr D: Here's something that verifys part of what you said about the dielectric taking a charge, but that's not all there is to it. Read the section entitled, "Change a single piece of wire's direction and it is audible": (http://www.soundstage.com... |